Tien Ho pleads for calls to WA State congressional representatives (list included) to free her and others held at Northwest Detention Center.

Steve Babb's poem is written for the men incarcerated at Stewart Detention Center, where 57 total cases of COVID-19 have been reported - and 1 death.

MKF shares his declaration, a harrowing account of his flight from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

MCM writes to us about how his hopes for freedom in the US have been crushed, and urges readers to "come to our aid."

"I can also see the ambulance several times in the day and the detainees ... that they are taking are no longer returning."

Malex' poems depict both despair and quiet acceptance at the thought of death while in detention.

"We still have 70,000 children caged across the U.S. There's still unaccompanied minors going to court and making decisions on their own.”

"[ICE] used power and fabricated documents and used fake travel documents to deport me to the same country I fled as a refugee."

Maybe it is time that we as a nation re-evaluate, and recognize the humanity of all people. Our quarantine seems difficult, indefinite and uncertain. So does theirs. To them, the circumstances of COVID-19 are nothing new.