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Cuban detainees  

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  • Today there are more than 1,000 Cuban nationals detained in federal prisons under special terms of confinement. Most of these men and women arrived in the United States in 1980 and are held as a result of special legislation and state powers that were enacted specifically to confine them. [Source: Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities; Cuban Detainees]

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