Total 7 Posts

A Visit to Adelanto

Intentional abuse and the criminalization of poverty: A first-time visitor to Adelanto reflects upon her experience, and the outrage it inspired.

Why Do I Visit People in Immigration Detention?

by Jan Meslin Art on the border wall in Playas Tijuana, Mexico. “Standing on the Side of Love” is an advocacy campaign against all forms of oppression by the Unitarian Universalist Association. Photo Credit: Tina Shull I just got a call from the Pine Prairie Detention Center in Pine Prairie,

Kismet Episode 12: Kouraboure and Diane

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