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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Harry Cockburn

Troubled ICE detention center under quarantine after measles outbreak could be closed permanently

A troubled U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Texas has been put under quarantine after an outbreak of measles - and could be shuttered altogether.

The Camp East Montana site, which has faced a series of controversies and a number of deaths since it opened eight months ago, has been shut to visitors and to detainees' legal representatives until at least March 20.

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