"Our system of mass immigration detention functions as torture. It must be abolished."

Targeted for his sexual orientation, and for his courage to assert his rights, Jesús has been subjected to multiple instances of solitary confinement.

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