Family Detention
What it’s like to try to raise your child in the only long-term detention center in the U.S.
Produced and Edited by Alexander Stockton
VICE News Tonight on HBO
Victoria, a Honduran woman, and her then 6-year-old daughter had been detained in Texas for as long as ICE could legally keep them. So late at night in the spring of 2016, they were transferred to the Berks County Residential Center in Leesport, Pennsylvania, the only long-term family detention center in the U.S.
By moving them to Berks, ICE would be able to hold them indefinitely.