On Wednesday Ms. Alberto and 21 other women who call themselves "Madres Berks," or "Berks Mothers," restarted a hunger strike they had conducted for 16 days in August.
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There are eight families with children under the age of 5 being held at the Berks center, said Jasmine Rivera, a community organizer who is the coordinator for the Shut Down Berks Coalition.
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Fill your boots is the attitude of coarse stockmarket berks.
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Bagehot lamented the "berks" who now control the Tory party.
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The Berks County commissioners have backed keeping the center open.
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She's being held without bond in the Berks County Prison.
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Deron Manndel of the Central Berks Regional Police Department told CNN.
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GROWING up in Wraysbury, Berks, she never thought she was beautiful.
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Cabrera will be extradited back to Berks County, Pennsylvania, Manndel said.
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But she immediately realized what it meant to be at Berks.
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There are only three facilities nationwide licensed to hold families long-term: Berks Family Residential Center in Berks County, Pennsylvania; Karnes Residential Center in Karnes City, Texas; and South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.
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Where: Berks Warehouse, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaWhen: Friday, June 17, 10PM – 4AMMore info 3.
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Both ICE and Berks County have defended the conditions at the facility.
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That's where the model of the Berks County detention center comes in.
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She is being held without bail at Berks County Prison in Pennsylvania.
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Berks County, Pa., $92.1 million of Kutztown Area School District general obligation bonds.
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Berks County, Pa., Industrial Development Authority, $575 million of health system revenue bonds.
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Cambria said David's cousin and the cousin's toddlers were also taken to Berks.
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The first, in Berks County, Pa., opened in 8.043; the second, in Taylor, Tex.
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Law enforcement officials in Berks County will hold a press conference at 2 p.m.
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The agency also maintains two smaller facilities, a 830-bed center in Karnes City, Texas, and 96-bed center in Berks County, Pa. The Berks facility has the potential capacity to house 200 people, according to a 2016 DHS advisory committee report.
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Take Berks County, where Obama lost in 2012 by 1 point: Trump won by 10.
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The Berks County District Attorney had no additional comment as the homicide investigation is ongoing.
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That phenomenon was reflected in Berks County, which swung to the Democratic candidate in 2008.
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So late at night in the spring of 63, they were transferred to the Berks County Residential Center in Leesport, Pennsylvania, the only long-term family detention center in the U.S. By moving them to Berks, ICE would be able to hold them indefinitely.
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So late at night in the spring of 2016, they were transferred to the Berks County Residential Center in Leesport, Pennsylvania, the only long-term family detention center in the U.S. By moving them to Berks, ICE would be able to hold them indefinitely.
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On one side are "berks", careless and coarse, who would destroy the language by polluting it.
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More to the point, Reading is the seat of Berks County, which voted overwhelmingly for Trump.
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Adams said the Berks County Children and Youth Services had previously been involved with the family.
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The family is being held at the Berks Family Residential Center in Pennsylvania, according to the ICE.
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If that proposal goes into effect, Berks could become the model for family detention across the country.
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Berks County, in the southeastern part of Pennsylvania, on Thursday passed a legally nonbinding resolution pressuring Gov.
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Residents at Berks go through a regular routine day-after-day — wake up, go to school, eat lunch.
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Even if politics prevents the center's closure, critics plan to keep up their push against the Berks facility.
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Migrants can spend weeks at the Berks facility, but some have stayed there for more than a year.
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It is unclear whether any other states would license a facility similar to the Berks County detention center.
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Berks, which can house 96 individuals, is the only detention center in the country that accepts male-led families.
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That facility, the Berks County Residential Center, only housed 80 detainees, far from the 1,000 at the Victorville complex.
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They say their acts of civil disobedience — protests and hunger strikes — have provoked tensions with Berks and immigration officials.
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The other couple and their 2-year-old twins were also taken to Berks, according to the family's attorney.
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The families were detained at Berks County Residential Center in Leesport, Pennsylvania, where 12 women and their children remain.
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But if the U.S. sends more people to Berks County, the center will quickly reach its 96-bed capacity.
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On Sunday, Diddy ran away from the Berks County, Pennsylvania, home Lesher shares with his girlfriend, reports NBC New York.
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An autopsy on Mark's remains will be performed Monday, according to a statement from the Berks County District Attorney's detectives.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said that the Berks center, run by the county, would be evaluated in a separate review.
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In fact, twenty-two women being held with their families in the Berks Detention Center launched a hunger strike on Aug.
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Almost 2,000 detainees are part of families held at the centers in Berks County, Pa., Dilley, Texas, and Karnes City, Texas.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement pays Berks County about $1.1 million a year to rent office space, according to the county.
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She was then detained in Berks County Residential Center alongside several other families also seeking asylum — until this week, Rhoads said.
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That shouldn't be an issue any more as the Fourth now entirely in that county except for a tiny sliver of Berks.
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Before their deportation, the mother and son were held for more a year at a family detention center in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
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Salima Allen wearing Otherwild's "El futuro es femeninx" shirt Otherwild is a graphic design studio and retail space run by Rachel Berks.
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Pollsters working for Toomey and the NRSC focused heavily on six counties that ring Philadelphia: Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh and Montgomery.
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The legislator leading the charge to extend the statute of limitations is State Rep resentative Mark Rozzi, a Democrat from Berks County.
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Ronnie and the rest of Troop #1814 recently sold cookies at the Phoebe Berks retirement community in Wernersville, Pennsylvania, where she resides.
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She faces a maximum sentence of one to two years in prison, Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams told BuzzFeed News.
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At Berks, all of the baby's clothes and blankets were taken away, Conners said, even new clothes with labels, to be washed.
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" In Berks County, Pennsylvania, another tornado was confirmed by the National Weather Service "based on video received showing a tornado on the ground.
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At the Berks Detention Center in Pennsylvania last summer, a group of mothers went on hunger strike to protest their seemingly infinite detention.
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As of last week, more than 1,20203 family members were in immigrant detention, according to ICE -- 1,223 at Dilley and 13 at Berks.
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Using cameras and radio telemetry gear, he studied a group of 80 free-range groundhogs on the campus farm at Penn State Berks.
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Though the Connors crossed the border north of Lynden, Washington, they were abruptly flown to a family detention center in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
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The family detention center in Berks County is one of three in the United States; the other two are larger and in Texas.
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"I find it to be powerful and especially good if you work closely with people," said Rachel Berks, the owner of the stores.
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Both City Council President Jeff Waltman and Berks County Commissioner Kevin Barnhardt attempted to change the mayor's mind but were unsuccessful, according to Reed.
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This mother & child are being held at a facility in Berks county & are being sent into danger despite the child being eligible for relief.
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She left only a note telling Markus that she was leaving, and taking Daniel with her, recounted Central Berks Regional Police Department Det. Sgt.
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In a 2016 letter to then-DHS Secretary Johnson, he said that "we can do better than the treatment they are receiving" at Berks.
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" Activists have pushed to close Berks, arguing it is the site of "human rights abuses" and "the immoral and unjust treatment of immigrant families.
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Cambria also said the other couple, who had been traveling with the Connors, and their 2-year-old twins, were also taken to Berks.
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On Monday, during a news conference on the August 6 murder-suicide, Berks County prosecutors detailed the weeks and days leading up to the tragedy.
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Willow, along with her sister, brother, and parents, were shot to death in an apparent murder-suicide, the Berks County, Pennsylvania, District Attorney said Sunday.
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One march organizer, Sarah Giskin, told WHYY that protesters wanted a local ICE field office and Berks County, Pa. migrant detention center to be closed.
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Though Reading had leaned toward Clinton, Berks County had gone for Trump by a ten-point margin; Obama had won by nine points in 2008.
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Most of the current residents came from Guatemala and seek asylum in the U.S. They do not face any criminal charges while kept at Berks.
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As Lesher searched for Diddy, a good Samaritan in the area found the cat first and brought the pet to Animal Rescue League of Berks County.
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But instead of going back to Canada or the UK, they were flown to Pennsylvania and brought to an ICE family detention center in Berks County.
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"This mother & child are being held at a facility in Berks county & are being sent into danger despite the child being eligible for relief," he added.
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A New York detective fired three times, a United States Marshal fired six times, and a sheriff from Berks County, Pa., fired once, Chief Boyce said.
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Adrian Smith, a spokesman for ICE, said that teachers at Berks are either certified in English as a second language or working toward such a certification.
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The next morning they were put on a cross-country flight to Pennsylvania, where they arrived at the Berks Family Residential Center in rural Leesport, she wrote.
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"Eight-year-olds, generally that I am aware, do not commit suicide," John T. Adams, the Berks County district attorney, said during a news conference on Monday.
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"I have had a long fight with two administrations about these families being detained at Berks but this is beyond that fight," Casey said in a statement.
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Lancaster County (most of which is in the 5163h) is heavily Republican and belongs with other parts of Pennsylvania on the periphery of greater Philadelphia in Berks County.
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ICE officials confirmed in a statement that the Connorses were detained in the Berks Family Residential Center but did not answer questions about why they were brought there.
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Snyder also told a witness that she was "depressed and doesn't care anymore about her kids," Berks County District Attorney John Adams said in a press conference Monday.
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It's also very close to the city of Reading, Pa., in Berks County, where Romney won in 2012 but by less than 20123,700 votes among 170,000 total votes cast.
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Dr. Alan Shapiro, the senior medical director of pediatric programs of the Children's Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx, has made several visits to Berks to examine the children.
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The adverse psychological effects of detention on children have been subject to several reports from Human Rights First, an advocacy group, including one in 2015 on conditions at Berks.
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An animation by Michelle Angela Ortiz honoring mothers incarcerated at Berks Detention Center, entitled "Seguimos Caminando (We Keep Walking)," is projected bi-weekly onto the face of City Hall.
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In 2014, the Berks County Children and Youth Services (CYS) had removed the children from Snyder's care, but they were returned to her care in February 2015, Adams said.
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Twenty-five-year-old Shaun Oxenreider and 27-year-old Samantha Trump were charged in Berks County with concealing the death of a child, abuse of a corpse and conspiracy.
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For the next year and five months, she and her son were detained, mostly at the Berks County Residential Center in Leesport, Pa., while lawyers tried to appeal her case.
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Connors and her baby were taken to a Red Roof Inn in Seattle and the next day transported to Berks County immigration detention center, an immigration jail in Leesport, Pennsylvania.
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The human story in Scranton and the handful of neighboring or nearby places like Berks, Luzerne, and Lehigh Counties tell you a lot more about why Trump could, indeed, win Pennsylvania.
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Then there is Berks County Residential Center, in Pennsylvania, where detainees include 22 women, recent arrivals from Central America, who went on a hunger strike in August to protest their detention.
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Her father is a judge on the Berks County Court of Common Pleas in Pennsylvania, with chambers in Reading, Pa. Her mother is a former Pennsylvania assistant attorney general in Harrisburg.
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When Mr. Johnson said last month that the average length of stay at a family detention center was 20 days, that upset the women in Berks and prompted their hunger strike.
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A smaller family detention center was already in operation in Berks County, Pa. The facilities in Dilley and Karnes are multimillion dollar money-making operation outsourced to private for-profit prison companies.
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Like all the women detained at Berks who spoke in telephone interviews conducted in Spanish, she asked not to be identified by her complete name, for fear of retaliation by staff members.
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Started in 2001, the Pennsylvania facility is the oldest and smallest of three family detention centers operating in the U.S. Berks County manages the facility for the U.S. government, making it unique.
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"When I started weaving, I think because I taught myself and didn't learn a proper way, I was experimenting and fell into shapes that were more curvy and blob-like," Berks says.
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Today, there are three family detention centers in the US: The two facilities in Texas and the Berks County Detention Facility in Pennsylvania, which opened before the 2014 spike in family border crossings.
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Kate Schurtz and Joseph Kearney were en route to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for their wedding when they were struck by a tractor-trailer traveling westbound on Interstate 78 in Berks County around 2:30 p.m.
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Last winter, they picked up Cho Van Le, a 65-year-old Vietnamese refugee who was serving one year of house arrest for helping his nephew run a marijuana grow house in Berks County.
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The third detention center — Berks County Residential Center, in Leesport, Pennsylvania — has a state license and is therefore allowed to hold children and their parents indefinitely, but the governor is trying to revoke it.
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The facility, which a sign identifies as the "Berks County Residential Center," would appear wholly unremarkable if not for a sign reading "no trespassing, secure property" and a guard keeping watch over children playing outside.
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Years before Americans took to the streets to demand that Trump reunite families separated at the border, activists started pushing Berks County and the state of Pennsylvania to close the 96-bed migrant housing facility.
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According to WFMZ, Berks County District Attorney John Adams identified the victims as Mark Short, 40, his wife, Megan, 33, and their children: 8-year-old Liana, 5-year-old Mark and 2-year-old Willow.
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Brenda Russell, professor of applied psychology at Penn State-Berks, a baby boomer who has studied sexual harassment for 30 years, says her early research indicates that boomers often declined to report sexual harassment or rape.
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After the success of the shirt, "The Future is Female," Rakowski said she reached out to the brand to see if Berks would be interested in collaborating based on the images she'd curated throughout the years.
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In an attempt to stem the flow, the Obama administration began holding mothers with children at the 100-bed Berks County Residential Center in Pennsylvania and at two bigger facilities, Karnes City and Dilley, in Texas.
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Police say Stephanie Thomas, a 28-year-old certified nursing assistant at the Berks Heim Nursing and Rehabilitation facility in Leesport, took several photos of residents after they'd died and sent them to friends and coworkers.
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Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams told reporters during a Monday press conference that Lisa Rachelle Snyder's Samsung phone remains missing, but is believed to be the device she used to order a dog lead.
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In Eastern Pennsylvania, the flies have already wreaked havoc in vineyards like those at the Manatawny Creek Winery in Berks County, where lanternflies have been gnawing away at the farm's 10 acres of grapevines for two years.
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In the facility currently used for long-term family detention, in Berks County, Pennsylvania, bright lights reportedly keep children from sleeping well, and they can be disciplined if they try to climb into a parent's bed for comfort.
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Mr. Adams said that in 2014, Berks County Children and Youth Services had removed the two children from Ms. Snyder's care, returning them in February 2015, but that they had stayed involved with the family until November 2015.
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Now, as the Trump administration tries to find its way around legal roadblocks and end its widely condemned separation practice, the Berks County facility offers a view of what more widespread, long-term family detention could look like.
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At Berks County Residential Center, an ICE facility in Pennsylvania, there are two classrooms, one for children aged 2 to 11 and another for children 12 to 18, according to Eleanor Acer, of the nonprofit Human Rights First.
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Furthermore, family detention facilities have also been revealed as beneficiaries of guaranteed minimums, with the public facility in Berks County, Pennsylvania and the notorious GEO-run Karnes detentioncenter in Texas enjoying lucrative quotas for jailing refugee women and children.
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Earlier in the day, District Attorney John Adams of Berks County, Pa., said he believed Luis Rivas-Clase, who is being sought in the Ortiz shooting, was the suspect wanted in connection with a shooting in Reading in 2018.
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Lawyers took the case of F. H., along with those of two dozen other women detained at Berks, to federal court, arguing that they should get new appointments with asylum officers because their original interviews had been conducted improperly.
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"Our new partnership with Curve makes managing your business spending even easier, freeing up time that can be spent on growing your business instead," Edward Berks, director of financial web and ecosystem at Xero, said in an announcement Monday.
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Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams tells PEOPLE that while the Fosters could face up to 10 years on their conviction for involuntary manslaughter, sentencing guidelines more typically would place the punishment at nine to 16 months in prison.
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Ms. Alberto and her son, migrants from El Salvador seeking asylum in the United States, are still detained, along with 65 other women and children at the Berks County Residential Center in Leesport, Pa., about 70 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
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Hubric claims he made this choice based on Diddy's behavior and lack of owner information, and because Animal Rescue League of Berks County was overcrowded and he and his staff could not find another local rescue or foster with room for Diddy.
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An ICE official acknowledged the agency has seen a significant increase in fathers with children since the beginning of March, noting that 28 of the 37 families being held at the Berks Family Residential Center in Leesport, Pennsylvania, are led by fathers.
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Plans to increase detention Three ICE facilities in the United States regularly house detained immigrant families: the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas; the Karnes County Residential Center in Karnes City, Texas; and the Berks Family Residential Center in Leesport, Pennsylvania.
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Mark Short killed his 33-year-old wife and the couple's three children, 8-year-old Liana, 5-year-old Mark Jr., and 2-year-old Willow, before turning the gun on himself, Berks County District Attorney John Adams said at a news conference Monday.
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KUTZTOWN, Pa. — There are only a few dozen international students at the medium-size university nestled here in the Berks County hills, where the clacking hooves of horse-drawn Mennonite buggies can be a more familiar sound than a car horn on the local streets.
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Speaking to reporters Monday, Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams alleged investigators recovered evidence indicating Lisa Rachelle Snyder allegedly searched Google the day before her children were hanged, looking up the phrases "hanging yourself" and "how long to die" from carbon monoxide poisoning.
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"The church is literally spending millions of dollars buying up politicians here and making sure every avenue victims take are shut down," said State Representative Mark Rozzi, a Democrat from Berks County, who said he was raped by a priest when he was 13.
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According to a news release posted on the Berks County District Attorney Facebook page, officers were sent to the Sinking Spring Borough home of the Short family after a family member reported that Megan Short failed to appear for a scheduled lunch date on Saturday afternoon.
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ICE currently detains families in two facilities: the Berks County Family Detention Center in Pennsylvania, which has a capacity of around 90, and the South Texas Family Residential Center, which has a capacity of 1,250, according to federal data analyzed by the nonprofit group Freedom for Immigrants.
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Sara Berks, a former graphic designer who founded the textile brand Minna in 2013, says creating the organic, freeform shapes she prefers requires pushing back on the geometry of weaving and working more closely with the artisans in Central and South America who produce Minna's goods.
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TORNADO FLIPS CARS AND TRIGGERS BUILDING COLLAPSES IN PENNSYLVANIA "When you see a young child&aposs life taken away, unnaturally, in a situation where they were abused to the point where they were murdered, that&aposs tough to swallow," John Adams, the Berks County District Attorney, told WFMZ .
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"We know this is where our customers are and it's how they interact with us every day, so we're always looking for mobile-native ways to make their experience even better," said Andy Berks, ASOS' digital product director, explaining that most ASOS traffic comes customers on their phones.
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And many voters there are also aware of the big boost in jobs that have come from fracking in the western counties, (not one fracking well is located in the counties of Lackawanna, Luzerne, Berks, or Lehigh), leaving them feeling left out of whatever economic recovery there is to speak of.
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At least some have already been moved into family detention centers, where the government can legally hold them for up to 203 days, according to Bridget Cambria, a lawyer representing a Brazilian father and son who were reunited on Friday at one such facility, the Berks Detention Center in Pennsylvania.
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"If it would just leap away, people wouldn't mind it as much, but it seems to always be in your mouth — or on you and trying to get in your mouth," said George Holmes, the mayor of Hamburg Borough in Berks County, Pa., where the flies were first found in 2014.
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Adapted from a novel by Sheryl Berk and her young daughter, Carrie Berk (the Berks wrote the script with Jill Jaysen), and with a pop score by Rick Hip-Flores, the production demonstrates how easy it is for the bullied to become bullies, too — at least until sweeter impulses prevail.
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