WASHINGTON, D.C. — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today announced the reinstatement of social visitation at detention facilities, following pressure from a national advocacy campaign led by a coalition of immigrants in detention, local detention visitation groups and immigrant rights organizations across the immigration detention abolition movement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration today announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will terminate its detention contract with the Etowah County Detention Center in Alabama, in addition to reducing its use of three other immigration jails across the South.

MIAMI — This week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) transferred all remaining individuals in its custody out of the Glades County Detention Center in Moore Haven, Florida, and on Friday announced it will not renew a key provision of its contract with Glades County that required payment for 300 beds in the facility, also known as a guaranteed minimum. The agency also announced it would be “pausing” its use of the jail as an immigration detention center.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Leaders in immigration detention and communities across the U.S. are launching a national campaign to reinstate visitation after Sunday, March 13, 2022, marked the two year anniversary of the suspension of visits.

SAN DIEGO — In a complaint filed today by a coalition of legal and advocacy organizations, 12 immigrants currently or previously detained in federal immigration custody at the Otay Mesa Detention Facility in San Diego have come forward to report severe mental health abuses at the hands of a psychologist whose pattern of negligence and misconduct further traumatized and endangered those who acknowledged risk of harm to themselves or others due to mental illness.

CHICAGO — Freedom for Immigrants (FFI) today announced that Interfaith Community for Detained Immigrants (ICDI) is the recipient of the 2022 Reverend John Guttermann Legacy Award, an honor presented annually to recognize the achievements of local immigration detention visitation groups and their critical contributions to the detention abolition movement.

Advocates join community members currently detained in the Orange County Jail (OCJ) in Goshen, NY, in calling for immediate releases amid an outbreak of COVID-19 driven by unmet requests for vaccines and boosters, lack of medical care for people who are ill, an inability to safely quarantine and inadequate PPE supplies.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a new letter addressed to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a group of 17 members of the U.S. House urged the Biden administration to immediately close the Glades County Detention Center (Glades), an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) prison located in Moore Haven, Florida, recently subject to investigation by the civil rights division.