Campaign to End Immigrant Family Detention

Grassroots Leadership and our allies all over the United States are calling for the abolition of all immigrant family detention. Join our e-mail list for the latest on the campaign and to help us end the practice of incarcerating entire families. Learn what actions others are taking and how to join them >>

Video directed by Matthew Gossage and Lily Keber with support from Grassroots Leadership
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T. Don Hutto - America's Family Detention Center

ICE holds immigrant families at the T. Don Hutto family detention center. Before the successful legal action by the ACLU in the fall of 2007, children wore prison garb, and were denied adequate schooling, health care, and recreation. Despite some important improvements made as a result of community organizing, the fight is not over. Hutto remains a medium security prison managed by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a for-profit adult corrections company. Incarceration of infants and children cannot be allowed-- even with the "privacy curtains around toilets" mandated in the ACLU settlement.

The Department of Homeland Security must adopt humane alternatives for managing families whose immigration status is in limbo and work to incorporate alternatives which keep families intact and that do not rely on incarceration. Alternatives must recognize that these families possess equal and inalienable rights to dignified treatment as members of the larger human family. more on Hutto>>

Who we are...

Grassroots Leadership is a national Southern-based multiracial team of organizers who work to help community labor, campus and faith organizations think critically, work strategically and take direct action to end social and economic oppression, gain power, and achieve justice and equity.

Grassroots Leadership's goal is to strengthen democracy and enhance the public good by working to transform the justice system. We advocate for a community-based justice system and alternatives to incarceration, work to end the unnecessary practices of immigrant and family detention, abolish all for-profit private prisons, jails and detention centers and organize with those most impacted by incarceration and detention.