West Virginia Watch, News from the States – As federal judges have ruled that three immigrants were wrongly jailed in West Virginia, the state continues to hold hundreds of immigrant detainees in its overcrowded jails.
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U.S. District Judge Thomas Johnston on Wednesday ordered the release of Danny Briceno-Solano from South Central Regional Jail, where he has been held for weeks. The jail is overcrowded.
In his opinion, the judge wrote that the government had violated the Constitution by detaining Briceno-Solano “without explanation, without a hearing, without notice or without any means of challenging that detention.”
