On any given day, thousands of immigrants in the United States are being held in detention, mostly to the benefit of for-profit prison corporations. Kouraboure, who fled political persecution in his home country of Burkina Faso, is one of them.
The for-profit Elizabeth Detention Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Photo Credit: Kismet
Kouraboure
Apart from her I don’t have any more visitor. So when they call my number I know that it’s her who come to visit me.
Diane
I started visiting him I think in January or February of last year, and visited him through my internship. And then even once my internship was over and I didn’t have to anymore, I continued to visit him.
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Join the immigration detention visitation network:
**Visit: **
First Friends: https://firstfriendsnjny.org/
CIVIC: www.endisolation.org
**Credits:
**Episode 12 was produced by Bart Warshaw
The Kismet team are Danny Lewis, Zoe Saunders, Pierre Bienaimé & Justine Mclellan