Project South

For many years, a grassroots movement organized to shut down the horrific Irwin County Detention Center. Today, we won a decisive victory. ICE was ordered to terminate the contract. Georgia-based organizations Project South, GLAHR, Georgia Detention Watch, and South Georgia Immigrant Support Network and many others fought side by side with racial justice movements to defund police, end ICE raids, and dismantle state surveillance in our communities. Today’s closure marks an ...important step in the right directionbut this country’s disgraceful practice of profiteering from locking people up lives on. We will not stop fighting until we end the private detention racket, dismantle the cruel deportation machine, and reverse the racist criminalization of immigration in this country. Adelina Nichols, GLAHR Call for #ReleaseNotTransfer We celebrate this hard-won end to immigrant detention at ICDC, and yet we lament the continued suffering of all harmed in body, mind, and spirit at this center, including employees. The incalculable damage caused by immigrant detention confirms that imprisonment is no solution to worldwide immigration challenges. Leeann Culbreath, Co-Chair of South Georgia Immigrant Support Network #FreeThemAll The closure of the Irwin County Detention Center marks a decisive victory in the long war against white supremacy in the US south and across the globe. While they have yet to receive justice, today those who suffered at Irwin have been vindicated. The abuses at Irwin are emblematic of our urgent need to end immigrant detention and abolish ICE. Kevin Caron, Steering Committee Member of Georgia Detention Watch #AbolishICE This victory is monumental and would not have happened without the bravery of the immigrants and the workers who called out the abuses. While we celebrate this moment, we know that there are hundreds of immigrants still detained in 3 other ICE detention centers in Georgia and across the country with inhumane conditions. We look forward to continuing this fight. Priyanka Bhatt, Project South This is a collective victory. Movement victories happen when slow, steady, strategic work manifests what we believe is possible. How did we do it? Check out organizing timeline: https://projectsouth.org/movement-victory/

Tune in 6pmET Monday for DSA Muslims town hall on abolition of the #WarOnTerror, with a focus on ending mass surveillance. Register: tinyurl.com/AbolishWarOnTerror Speakers include @EqualityLabs, @mediajustice, @VigilantLOVEla, Project South fellow Meral Kocak