Resources

detention resources

For People Detained in the United States - Freedom for Immigrants

Interactive Detention Map - Freedom for Immigrants

Directory of Community Bail Funds - National Bail Fund Network

Immigration Law Resources - Immigration Justice Campaign

Guide to Visiting People in Detention - Freedom for Immigrants

Sign Up for Detention News and Actions - Detention Watch Network

HISTORY OF DETENTION

Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary - A. Naomi Paik

Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World's Largest Detention System - Elliott Young

The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity - Jessica Ordaz

Detain and Punish: Haitian Refugees and the Rise of the World's Largest Immigration Detention System - Carl Lindskoog

Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants - César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 - Kelly Lytle Hernández

From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America - Patricia Macías-Rojas

Detained: How the U.S. Built the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System - Marshall Project

History of Criminalization Webinars - ICE out of CA

Why Abolition?

We Do This 'Til We Free Us - Mariame Kaba

Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation - Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing and Prisons - edited by Colin Kaepernick

No More Police: A Case for Abolition - Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie

Study and Struggle: Fall 2022 Curriculum, Reading Groups, Pen Pal Program, & Blog

Abolition Feminisms, Vol. 1: Organizing, Survival, and Transformative Practice - edited by Alisa Bierria, Jakeya Caruthers, and Brooke Lober

Ending Immigration Detention: Abolitionist Steps vs. Reformist Reforms - Detention Watch Network

Dismantling Detention Webinar - Immigrant Legal Resource Center