Via DreamACTivist.org Yeslin, just 9, speaks out from inside the Berks Family detention center. This 9 year old has spend a year locked up in jail, with her 2 year…
Obama’s Family Detention Policy: Threaten Rape Victims With Criminal Prosecution As originally posted on Amjo Law by Bryan Johnson on June 9, 2016 This is the second part in a series…
This week, the internet saw photos from across the world with the #EndFamilyDetention hashtag go viral. The movement to expose and end the rampant human rights abuses of "family detention."
Asylum-seeking women report that hunger strike is expanding within the detention center, retaliation continues
A hunger strike movement is taking place across several immigrant detention centers in the U.S. EndFamilyDetention.com stands in solidarity with the growing number of hunger strikes at all immigrant detention…
On Friday, a Texas State Judge granted a temporary restraining order preventing the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TFPS) from granting child care facility licenses to family prison camps in Dilley…
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Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream WASHINGTON, DC – On July 28th, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, along with Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee and support from the Congressional…
REQUEST TO DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: Investigate DHS for federal crimes of Conspiracy Against Rights; Kidnapping; and Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law Against Lilian Oliva Bardales and her 4-year-old son in Family Detention.
Community members hold press conference in solidarity with mothers who will continue strike until the detention camp is closed
In a letter dated April 15, 2015, Congressman Joaquin Castro addresses the harassment by ICE of a volunteer delivering water to refugee mothers and children imprisoned at the Karnes concentration camp…
This disciplinary report from the Karnes detention camp recently surfaced and reveals an odd twist of events and accusations: that the women fasting inside the Karnes prison with their children were…
April 6, 2015 We mothers who are detained in Karnes County Residential Center began a hunger strike on March 30 asking for freedom, for justice. This strike began because all…
"I am sharing a letter I have sent to Congressman Castro that explained a terrifying incident that happened after I volunteered to deliver bottled water to the fasting women at Karnes Detention Center this past Tuesday. Please read and share with others to spread the word in support of the women and their immediate release and that their human rights be honored."
From coast to coast on Tuesday, March 24th people gathered to demand freedom for all refugee families at Karnes and Dilley "family" detention centers. The event coincided with the commemoration of…
Please read this stunning report Ending Artesia, by Stephen Manning. Explaining complicated, bizarre, technical legal proceedings with great clarity, this report is compelling. Stephen Manning's writing is beautiful and --…
A look inside America's expanding immigration detention system.
UPDATE: The Karnes County Commissioners Court voted this week, 3-2, to approve the expansion of the for-profit detention center at 409 Farm-to-Market Road 1144, run by the for profit private…
You see me onscreen My name is an A number But I’m a woman - Anonymous
Until today, I was mostly getting phone calls from women in Karnes and from family members around the country; texts from family members in Honduras. Today at 12:30, I received this e-mail: Estamos detenidas en Karnes tenemos tres hijos cada una y tenemos tres meses de estar detenidas, teniamos abogados pero nos dejaron el caso […]
Drawing by Rini Templeton, 1935-1986 I went to see three families yesterday in Karnes, and without planning to, ended up talking to seven mothers and their children. Obviously I will not represent all of them, but I hope that each woman finds representation through Karnes Pro Bono Project team. I cannot convey what it is […]
A goodbye letter from one teenage girl to another. They met inside the Karnes "family detention" center; and the writer was deported to El Salvador with her mom and about…
Melissa and her sisters are imprisoned with their mother at the Karnes "family" prison near San Antonio, Texas. October 31, 2014 We need the help of all of you because…
The letter below is from a young girl who is imprisoned with her mother and sisters at the Karnes family prison facility near San Antonio, Texas. October 31, 2014…
The letter below is from a young girl inside the prison with their mother and young sisters. October 31, 2014 We need your help to get out of here soon from…
This is a translation of a testimony by a child inside describing the "freezers" that people are being put into at the McAllen detention center.
Melissa, Carmen, and Jackeline are three sisters who, with their mother, fled El Salvador seeking refuge. Right before they left, the three girls had watched as a gang member came into their tiny home and held a gun to their mother’s head, threatening to rape and kill all four of them. They’ve been locked up […]