Between the Fences : Before Guantanamo, there was the Port Isabel Service Processing Center (Paperback)

from cutiger80

When I first selected this book I was looking forward to an interesting history of an immigration detention center as a window on the evolution of immigration policy in the US. Instead, I found a poorly written memoir of Hefner's one-sided experiences within the Port Isabel Processing Center. Whi...

from oldman

Between the Fences by Tony Hefner, as advertised, was not a pleasant book to read, but he did have issues to present. The problem I had was just what problems he wanted brought to light. The book begins with the author describing a chaotic childhood with a complex interaction with his step-father...

from Beezie

Between the Fences... is not a report filed by serious journalist. Rather, it's a personal account of a disturbing and transformative episode in Tony Hefner's career. His stint as a guard for the Port Isabel Processing Center exposed him to the harsh realities of life in a federal detention cente...

from andyray

this work tears my head up. if it were issued as fiction, i think it would be very successful, but as non-fiction, THERE IS NO ACCREDITATION. The only abusive act author Hefner saw himself was that of the mentally ill young Hispanic who sat naked and unwashed in his own feces and urine and snot f...

from kristincedar

"Between the Fences: Before Guantanamo, There was the Port Isabel Service Processing Center" is a good book on a terrible topic. Coming from the perspective of a guard at detention center in southern Texas, the stories of corruption and wrongdoing are hard to read, but Tony Hefner's approach to t...