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Listen: “Inside Willacy Detention Center” via @LatinoUSA
via LatinoUSA:
Mental health coordinator Twana Cooks-Allen showed up to work at an immigration detention facility intending to treat troubled detainees. But she soon discovered the real threats were not the people locked up there. What happened inside the Willacy detention center in South Texas was so disturbing it sparked 13 special criminal investigations by the Department of Homeland Security. Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa went inside the center, and deep into this case, in a segment produced by Catherine Rentz, in partnership with the PBS show FRONTLINE and the Investigative Reporting Workshop.
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Listen: “The Penalty is Exile – How Immigration & Criminalization Collide” via @Making_Contact
via Making Contact & The National Radio Project:
Under President Obama more than 1 million people have been deported from the United States. Immigration officials claim that many of those being deported are criminals. On this edition, producer Cory Fischer-Hoffman investigates the connection between immigration and the criminal justice system and the impact this burgeoning relationship is having on immigrants.
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via @NIJC These Lives Matter: The Nightmare of Solitary Confinement
via NIJC blog
The challenge is on!
| Dear Colleagues,Last month Detention Watch Network announced its $5K fundraising challenge to help support the “Dignity not Detention” Campaign to End Mandatory Detention.
Mandatory detention policies are a driving force behind the spectacular growth of the US immigration detention and deportation system. Help us reverse this abominable trend and together let’s put an end to mandatory detention once and for all with “Dignity, not Detention.” Our goal is to raise $5000 by October 31st. We are making progress, but with a few more weeks to go, we still need your help!Just $10, $20 or $50 can go a long way to helping us reach our goal, and with a generous match from the Unitarian Universalist Funding Program, your gift will double. Thank you for your support and generosity. Warm regards, Andrea G. Black
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We are almost halfway to our goal.If you have not had a chance to do so yet, please take a few minutes to make a gift today. |
Job Posting: DWN Field Director
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Field Director
Detention Watch Network
Deadline: October 19th, 2012
The Detention Watch Network (DWN) is a member-led coalition that works locally and nationally to educate the public, media and policy makers about the injustices of the U.S. immigration detention and deportation system and to advocate for humane reform. Working with DWN is a unique opportunity to interact with, and support the work of, immigrant rights advocates as we build our collective power and vision for reform.
Position Summary
The DWN Field Director will build the power of the network and our members by developing the leadership of members to drive campaigns; recruiting new organizations and individuals to join; and growing DWN’s capacity to support local and national efforts challenging detention. The Field Director will work with members to develop and implement a national campaign; engage in public education, outreach and ally building activities; and coordinate key membership calls and events. This is a full-time position based in Washington DC.
Some have equated the practice to torture, yet a new study from the National Immigrant Justice Center and Physicians for Human Rights reveals that the jails and detention facilities that contract with ICE often put detained immigrants in abusive and long-term solitary confinement. Researchers found that jails frequently sentence LGBT people and the mentally ill to solitary confinement because they cannot guarantee these individuals’ safety in the general population. Guards are given extraordinary power that allows them to use solitary confinement to threaten and discriminate against certain detainees. In most cases, detained immigrants have no way to appeal their confinement.
By Ruthie Epstein, Refugee Protection Program. Reposted from Human Rights First
California, I adore you, not only for your sunny skies, beautiful coastline, and two-dollar tacos, but because your bench is deep with incredible immigration detention and criminal justice experts both thoughtful and inspired.
On September 24, Human Rights First held its second Dialogue on Detention, co-sponsored by the University of California – Irvine School of Law and the Center for Research on Immigration, Population, and Public Policy, as well as two student groups, the Immigration and International Migration Law Society and the Orange County Human Rights Association. Our lineup blew us away; check it out here. Audio and video will be posted soon. Read more…
