The U.S. Attorneys office in San Diego has obtained court approval of a procedure under which detention of each alien material witness is limited to 10 days unless the prosecution or defense specifies within that period that the witness is needed to testify at trial. As a result. most alien witnesses are released to the Immigration and Naturalization Service for deportation within 10 days of the time they were initially apprehended. With rare exceptions. female and juvenile material witnesses are not incarcerated. After apprehension. such witnesses are transported to the Metropolitan Correctional Center for processing. ordinarily within a matter of hours.
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