The Adelanto Detention Center is run by GEO Group, Inc. Washington, DC — Immigrant rights organizations, Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC), Detention Watch Network (DWN), and the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Vicente Caceres-Maradiaga. Caceres-Maradiaga, 46, died last Wednesday
Poetry by Alexandra La Golosa Photo Credit: Tina Shull Poetic Contest by Alexandra La Golosa As any rhyming child since tender age I have been harnessed to go on stage By teacher of the literature. I really don’t know what she could see In me, back in the schooldays;
by Barbara Woshinsky Photo credit: Cardenas Law Firm It is a beautiful Saturday morning in March, one of those unexpected gifts sent to South Florida from the North: temperature in the 60’s, low humidity; a perfect day for walking on the beach. But instead of heading east to Biscayne
Maria Ortiz Cortez was released after being detained for a year and a half at the West County Detention Facility in Richmond, CA Maria with her children, Brandon and Marisela **UPDATE: CIVIC was able to help raise Maria’s bond, and on her birthday, June 9, 2017, she was released
Victor Perez, 23, spent over three years at the Adelanto Detention Center in California Victor (left) with his sister Valeria. Donate to his bond fund campaign so they can be reunited. Hello, my name is Victor Perez and I have been in ICE custody at the Adelanto Detention Center since
Cal State LA student Claudia Rueda is being detained by Border Patrol in an act of retaliation: Call now to demand her release 22-year-old Cal State LA student and activist Claudia Rueda is being detained by Border Patrol in an act of retaliation. Last month, Claudia’s mother was swept
This week, CIVIC is mourning the loss of two more people who died in immigration detention, Jean Carlos Jiménez-Joseph and Atulkumar Babubhai Patel. Both of these individuals died within 2 days of each other in Georgia. El Refugio, which is the CIVIC-affiliated visitation program at the Stewart Detention Center, was
CIVIC’s weekly spotlight on crimes committed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This week’s crime: Medical Neglect Cesar writes from the Adelanto Detention Facility:We were in quarantine from April 1st to April 20th… I did write to three news publications but it might not have made the
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
