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Doctors who torture, preventing torture, and the plight of detained torture survivors in the U.S.

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The impact of detention on the health of asylum seekers

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14567286

By Keller AS, Ford D, Sachs E, Rosenfeld B, Trinh-Shevrin C, Meserve C, Leviss JA, Singer E, Smith H, Wilkinson J, Kim G, Allden K, Rockline P. Published in the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management. 2003 Oct-Dec;26(4):383-5.

Asylum seekers arriving in the United States are often imprisoned for months or years while their asylum claims are processed. Recently, Physicians for Human Rights and the Bellevue/New York University Program for Survivors of Torture released the findings of the first systematic study examining the health of detained asylum seekers.

Tortured & Detained: Survivor Stories of U.S. Immigration Detention

http://www.cvt.org/sites/cvt.org/files/Report_TorturedAndDetained_Nov2013.pdf

Report by CVT in partnership with the Torture Abolition and Survivor Support Coalition (TASSC) and the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC), published Nov 2013. 

As policymakers consider returning to comprehensive immigration reform, a new report released today by the Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) and the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International (TASSC) estimates the U.S. government, from October 2010 to February 2013, detained approximately 6,000 survivors of torture as they were seeking asylum protection.  

According to Tortured & Detained: Survivor

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