ICE will not be renewing its contract with CoreCivic for the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, leaving people detained there facing an uncertain future.
Despite having sponsors ready to house them, five South Asian hunger strikers remain detained and subjected to force-feeding and forced hydration.
FBM's message is a poignant reminder that behind the barbed wire fences of our country's immigration detention centers are men, women and children who refuse to relinquish their dreams of freedom and safety.
Waiting in Tijuana for his court hearing in 4 days, Jonathan Rayo Lopez is one of thousands of Nicaraguan asylum seekers fleeing their government's brutal regime.
On average, 2,371 were being held in immigration detention in 1979. That number has skyrocketed to to more than 52,000 in September of this year. Here's a recap of the history of immigration detention from a new report by the Marshall Project.
In addition to the trauma of detention, unaccompanied immigrant children face a dearth of legal resources - a problem Maria Woltjen of The Young Center was determined to solve.
Today's headlines decrying the dehumanizing conditions at immigration centers remind many Japanese Americans of the suffering their families endured in WWII internment camps.
Two OITNB cast members recently visited Hudson County Correctional Facility with FFI's Dania Darwish. Here, Dania talks about that visit - and her experiences visiting Hudson.
A Pennsylvania advocacy group decries the illegality of detaining immigrant families and demands that the state's governor to issue an Emergency Removal Order (ERO).
