T Don Hutto: May 24th vigil YouTube footage from San Antonio Current

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What is T Don Hutto?

In May 2006, the Department of Homeland Security opened its first prison for immigrant families 30 miles north of Austin. It is the first family detention center in the country to be based on the penal model, though plans were quickly made to build more.

The T Don Hutto facility holds men, women (some pregnant), children, and infants, none of whom have a criminal past. Administered by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the country's largest for-profit corrections company, Hutto lacks proper licensing and medical facilities, and has been proven to traumatize families.

This blog is dedicated to providing information on the growing movement to shut down Hutto and prevent this model of immigrant detention from spreading nationally.

Further information

Locking Up Family Values, The most complete analysis of conditions inside T Don Hutto and Berks, a second family detention center in Pennsylvania. Published March, 2007

ICE's (Immigration & Customs Enforcement) newly-published standards on family residential standards.

Grassroots Leadership's report on CCA's history and business practices. Published Dec, 2003

Financial Analysis of the Impact of Undocumented Immigrants in Texas. Published by Carole Keeton Strayhorn, Texas Comptroller. Dec, 2006

The Sentencing Project's
Reducing Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System. Oct, 2000

Rates of Incarceration by Race & Ethnicity The Sentencing Project. July, 2007

Click here for a list of detention facilities across the U.S.

Related Blogs and Links

America's Family Prison
a short film chronicling the rise of Hutto and its impact on detainees and the local community

The Least of These
a feature-length documentary that follows the implementation of family detention at Hutto, the lawsuit, and protests against the facility. Premiered at Austin's South-by-Southwest Film Festival in March of 2009.

The Sanctuary

A grassroots effort of pro-migrant, human-rights, and civil-rights bloggers and on-line activists dedicated to the enactment of meaningful immigration reform that is practical, rational, fair, and humane.

Homeland Gitmos
Follow an investigation of detainee treatment in American detention centers. An interactive website, complete with videos, detainee testimonies, photos, maps, and more.

Business of Detention
an exciting new interactive website examining the link between federal immigration policy and the corporations that are profiting off it

Detention Watch Network
a national coalition dedicated to tracking immigrant detention issues

Free the Children Myspace
one of the first websites devoted to covering Hutto

Grits for Breakfast
one of the best sources available on the TX criminal justice system

Migration Policy Institute
a nonpartisan think tank dedicated to the study of the movement of people worldwide

National Immigration Forum
to embrace & uphold America's tradition as a nation of immigrants

Pew Hispanic Center
chronicling Latinos' diverse experiences in a changing America

Texas Civil Rights Review
reports from the front lines of the fight for civil rights in TX

Texas Prison Bid'ness
information about the growing prison-for-profit industry in Texas

Immigration Orange

Blog about all things immigration.

Immigration Prof Blog
Research and reflection by leading immigration scholars

States without Nations
Jacqueline Stevens, political scientist, blogs about immigration, nationalism, and the state.

Dream ACTivist
Campaign to pass the DREAM ACT, which grants access to higher education for immigrant youth.

Monday, June 16, 2008

May 24th vigil YouTube footage from San Antonio Current

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