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About Us:

The Northwest Detention Center Media Critique is the result of a semester's worth of studying the role of the media in framing issues concerning diversity. The goal of the project is to take a critical look at one of Tacoma's dirty little secrets, the privately-owned Northwest Detention center. Owned by the multi-national GEO Group NW Detention center is used by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) as a holding pen for approximately 1000 prisoners, most of which are undocumented immigrants or people jailed on similar charges. In recent years, allegations of civil rights abuses have surfaced at the facility. With little coverage by the mainstream media or Tacoma News Tribune, this project aims to bring the prison out of the shadows and into the glaring light of public dialogue. With the University of Puget Sound's history of being committed to social justice and community involvement, we of the Communications 370 class view this to be a project worthy of our time and mental exertion.

This blog will hopefully serve as a place at which people can field and communicate different ideas pertaining to a more open and transparent assessment of the NWDC.