"He’s resilient and positive. He’s done his time, and he needs to be pardoned.”

Muniru has been stuck in detention for over 9 months since signing his own deportation order Photo Credit: Noah Silliman on Unsplash I, Muniru, a citizen of Ghana by birth and nationality, was born in Accra in January of 1993. My mum passed away when I was very young. I

by Susan Lange Photo by Jeremy Yap on Unsplash I have been a volunteer with the [Faithful Friends/Amigos Fieles](http://www.uuss.org/immigrantjustice/faithfulfriends/) immigration detention visitation program for the past four years. I have visited at the Sacramento Jail, the Yuba County Jail in Marysville, and the

Seven detained immigrants share their artwork to raise funds for those in need during the holidays “December 25” by Luis Quintero Pam Shearman, a volunteer at Interfaith Community for Detained Immigrants (ICDI) in Chicago, describes how this holiday fundraiser came to be: So many of the people we visit have

Amdi spent a year and a half in the United States, entirely behind bars Photo Credit: Tina Shull Asylum seekers from all over the world can spend months to years languishing in US immigrant prisons while pursuing their cases and even after receiving final orders of removal. This year, the

Cesar, who grew up in California, spent a year and a half in immigration detention before being deported to Mexico in June of 2017 U.S. Mexico Border Wall in Playas Tijuana. “La Poesia No Tiene Limites / Poetry Has No Limits” by Acción Poetica. Photo Credit: Tina Shull *Cesar’s

Two women’s testimonies and a complaint with 27 signatures reveal a pattern of abusive conditions at the West County Detention Facility in Richmond, CA Women being detained at the West County Detention Facility in Richmond, California, sent the above complaint to [Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement](http:

Singer-Songwriter Miguel was the headliner at the #SchoolsNotPrisons Adelanto concert on October 20th. Photo Credit: Oswaldo Farias on Facebook From the California Endowment: The #SchoolsNotPrisons tour and community partners call for the closure of cruel and unjust immigrant prisons, beginning with the for-profit prison in Adelanto which is the largest

The Act will Bring Needed Accountability to Private Immigration Prisons Photo Credit: CIVIC ***October 5, 2017 ***— Today, Governor Brown signed SB 29, the Dignity Not Detention Act, into law, effectively freezing the growth of private, for-profit immigration detention facilities in the state of California. The bill also prohibits cities or