Detained for 2 years, Jose Tapete has endured horrific medical neglect and was among those at Adelanto sprayed with a dangerous chemical disinfectant.

JM recounts a horrific incident he and others experienced at Yuba County Jail.

A Vietnamese woman writes to us about the misconceptions many Americans have about immigrants, and indignities endured at the Northwest Processing Center.

Guilt and remorse are coupled with a fierce determination to be "free from the chains" in this wrenching new poem by Abraham.

Another letter received from G.E.R.S. details his observations about immigration judges - and the pervasive injustice of the system they preside over.

For Noheli, a Venezuelan woman who requested asylum, being bonded out and then welcomed into several volunteers’ homes made all the difference after spending four months in a California immigrant jail where she developed an infection.

While Raju was detained for a year in New York, medical neglect gave him severe epilepsy. Now his wife and daughter fear his deportation to Jamaica will be a death sentence.

These sketches by Erickson, a thirty-six-year-old man at Baker County Detention Center, evoke the melancholy, uncertainty and deprivation of his life in detention.

In order to support immigrants ensnared in the immigration detention system, advocates and attorneys need to join forces, not work at cross purposes.