"The American Civil Liberties Union has released government documents containing 185 allegations of sexual abuse against female immigration detainees in federal detention centers since 2007.
The documents, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, include detailed narratives by three women who describe sexual assaults by guards while the detainees were being transported in prison vans.
The ACLU said the 185 assaults took place in or near federal detention centers around the country, with more allegations against facilities in Texas than in any other state. The assaults described in the documents, obtained from government agencies, do not represent the full scope of the problem because sexual assault is "notoriously underreported,’’ the ACLU said."
