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Judge Blocks Child-Care License for Family Detention Center (in Texas)
Source: Associated Press
Judge Blocks Child-Care License for Family Detention Center
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN, Texas — May 4, 2016, 8:25 PM ET
A judge has blocked a temporary residential child-care license for one of the nation's largest detention centers for families caught crossing the southern U.S. border illegally.
The licenses are needed because a federal judge ruled last year the centers would have to eventually release the immigrant children without them.
State District Judge Karin Crump signed a temporary restraining order Wednesday that blocks issuance of a license to the privately owned and managed, 2,400-bed South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.
The order was sought by an activist group that opposes for-profit prisons. It is effective until May 13, when arguments are scheduled on a temporary injunction to halt the licensing indefinitely.
A spokesman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, which issues the licenses, declined to comment.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN, Texas — May 4, 2016, 8:25 PM ET
A judge has blocked a temporary residential child-care license for one of the nation's largest detention centers for families caught crossing the southern U.S. border illegally.
The licenses are needed because a federal judge ruled last year the centers would have to eventually release the immigrant children without them.
State District Judge Karin Crump signed a temporary restraining order Wednesday that blocks issuance of a license to the privately owned and managed, 2,400-bed South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.
The order was sought by an activist group that opposes for-profit prisons. It is effective until May 13, when arguments are scheduled on a temporary injunction to halt the licensing indefinitely.
A spokesman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, which issues the licenses, declined to comment.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/judge-blocks-child-care-license-family-detention-center-38888775
