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Incarcerated people facing possible deportation are barred from lower custody levels like work release, an important step in preparing for reentry. This ban also means they cannot access higher-paying jobs. 4/

Incarcerated immigrants who want to learn English have few resources. GED courses are only taught in English, and half of state prisons in Washington do not offer ESL classes. 3/

Normally, prisoners do not have to pay any fees to receive their first college degree. But state law singles out prisoners with immigration detainers as the only group that has to pay. 2/

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Though filings usually don’t result in an eviction if residents can come up with the rent in time, tenants and housing experts said that they can worsen a cycle of debt and hurt people’s ability to rent a home in the future. 4/

Seemingly as a result of this strategy, the company has filed eviction notices against tenants at a rapid clip. Many building owned by American Landmark have eviction filing rates far higher than the national average as calculated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. 3/

American Landmark buys cheap apartment complexes in the U.S. Southeast, fixes them up, and raises the rent — sometimes by hundreds of dollars a month — in order to attract "higher quality tenants," according to a 2011 internal presentation. 2/