As I listened to Ahern in his small office, I was struck by how much he knew about, and how much time he spent thinking about, immigration detention. He was a competent and civic-minded public servant...

Students from Joliet Central and Joliet West high schools participated in a nationwide walkout by students protesting actions of ICE agents on Friday.

A massive warehouse in Tremont, Pa., that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in a $119 million ICE deal.

A total of 23 converted warehouses could imprison up to 80,000 people, estimates suggest.

“History shows us that repression always breeds resistance,” says Chicago organizer Miguel Alvelo Rivera.

Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.

How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered residents in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.

More and bigger detention infrastructure follows a strict logic of “if you build it, they will fill it.” Larger county jails not only enable the incarceration of more people by local police; they also...

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More and bigger detention infrastructure follows a strict logic of “if you build it, they will fill it.” Larger county jails not only enable the incarceration of more people by local police; they also...

DHS announced a new program that pays law enforcement agencies that help carry out its anti-immigrant agenda.

Internal documents reveal ICE’s plans to double immigrant detention to more than 100,000 beds, including new detention centers for families.

This piece is a distillation of a longer conversation with Liam Cain, whose eclectic itinerary includes various construction jobs on pipelines and in oil refineries and wildland firefighting. Liam’s a...

SPRING 2025 ISSUE 02

People involved with labor justice, grassroots community-building, and independent watchdogs make obvious allies for abolitionists—but how do we win them to our cause?

An investigation by the Chicago Tribune found that immigration detainees have been held for days at the processing center in west suburban Broadview.

“One doesn’t marry in order to write about women nor have children to write about children nor teach in a prison to write about prisoners,” John Cheever

Volunteers with Union del Barrio look for immigration officers and post videos and alerts, warning people to seek shelter