After Carlos was released, he began working with community groups to advocate for people in detention. This is his poem and his story Carlos Hidalgo used the pseudonym “Libertad” or “Liberty” to communicate with the outside world while in detention Carlos Hidalgo was separated from his family and twice detained

Alexandra is a journalist, poet, and musician who was detained for 444 days at the Eloy Detention Center in Arizona Aleksandra Gologuzova (Pen name/nickname Alexandra La Golosa) *Alexandra writes:* “I started to write in immigration detention because I did not have many things to do, and I needed to

September 30th marked the twentieth anniversary of the passage of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA). Immigrant rights groups shine a light on the dark legacy of the 1996 laws and collectively challenge lawmakers to Fix ‘96. The #BringJoseBack campaign: http://act.presente.org/sign/billclintonjose?t=

by Namita Paul “A Higher Bond #2″ Pen and ink on paper I became aware of the social, political, physical, and psychological aspects of immigration detention during the course of a class called “Advanced Topics in Activism and Advocacy: Trans of Color Poetics” taught by Dr. micha cárdenas at the

Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC) is the national detention visitation network, which is working to end U.S. immigration detention by monitoring human rights abuses, elevating stories, building community-based alternatives to detention, and advocating for system change. Our visitation programs are mapped with the purple icons, http:

“Until We Are All Free” by Jess X Snow, http://www.untilweareallfree.com/people/2016/9/5/jess-x-chen Launched in 2015, [UNTIL WE ARE ALL FREE](http://www.untilweareallfree.com/#about-us) is an unprecedented collaboration between [CultureStrike](http://www.culturestrike.org/), [Mobilize the Immigrant Vote](http://www.mivcalifornia.org/), and

Kamal, an artist from Morocco, spent three years in immigration detention Drawn by Kamal Hachem from Morocco at the Theo Lacy Detention Facility in Orange, California. 6/26/16. He was released from detention after three years in December of 2016. Kamal says, “When I am drawing, I am not