‘This place broke something in us': Kids languish in ICE detention long past 20-day limit

Kenek, a 9-year-old with severe autism, cried through the night and started hitting himself as ICE detained him and his mother for weeks.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/children-ice-detention-long-past-20-day-limit/3996470/

@NBCDFW this brings to mind the English workhouses, and the generational trauma that resulted. I think of the "workhouse howl" mentioned in Call the Midwife. I can't even process the horror, and I didn't experience it.