#family-visit

#family-visit

You are leaving work, your suit still damp from the morning's downpour, the skin on your palms peeling. You are clutching two supermarket bags, tins of cream soup and tuna knocking against one another. The rain is hard and your anorak is cheap. You are on your way to Stockbridge, to your parents' house, which only your father inhabits now that your mother is gone.

Brooklyn happens to be the worst possible facility in all the detention centers in the United States. It is the most dangerous unsecured facility in the country for a number of reasons.