List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Foreword
Nina Bernstein
Introduction
Ulla D. Berg and Carolina Sánchez Boe
PART I: The Early Years: From Esmor to CCA, 1993-1998
Chapter 1: Abraham Zuma's Preventable Death, or Why Immigration Detention Must be Abolished
Amy Gottlieb
Chapter 2: Shackled in the Land of Hope: Asylum Seekers Held for Months
Elizabeth Llorente
Chapter 3: The First Lawsuit Using International Human Rights Law to Protect Detained Immigrants in the United States
Penny Venetis
Chapter 4: Riot!
Fauziya Kassindja (with Layli Miller Bashir)
Chapter 5: "You're Giving Them Too Much Hope."
Will Coley
PART II: Mandatory Detention, Crimmigration, and the National Security State
Chapter 6: How a Good Immigrant/Bad Immigrant Binary Fuels the Modern Deportation Regime
Sarah Tosh
Chapter 7: A Journey to Freedom: My First Steps in the United States
Abdulai Bah
Chapter 8: "It's not like you're ever going to see this guy after he gets released today..."
Marguerite É. Marty, Esq.
Chapter 9: We Are IRATE!: Seven People in a New Jersey Diner and the Power of Accompaniment
William Westerman
Chapter 10: A New Jersey Teenager Caught in the War on Terror and Detained at EDC
'Bilal' (with Carolina Sanchez Boe)
PART III: Structures of Support, Advocacy, and Accompaniment
Chapter 11: A Permanent Executive Order from God: The Reformed Church of Highland Park's Ongoing Response to EDC's Systemic Sin
Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale
Chapter 12: Bed 26: Becoming a Refugee and Claiming Asylum
Edafe Okporo
Chapter 13: Touring the Elizabeth Detention Center: A Diary Comic
Kristyn Scorsone
Chapter 14: Due Process Army at the Elizabeth Immigration Court
Pina N. Cirillo
Chapter 15: Know Where You Stand and Stand There
Kathy O'Leary
PART IV: Economies of Detention
Chapter 16: Anti-Detention Laws, the EDC, and How New Jersey Became a Private-Detention-Only State
Katherine M. Sastre
Chapter 17: Big Business and Bad Care: The Sick Economics Behind the Elizabeth Detention Center
Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Hiemstra
Chapter 18: From EDC to e-Carceration and Digital Surveillance: My Experience with Libre by Nexus
Julio Oseguera (with Ulla D. Berg)
Chapter 19: Who Are the Criminals? The Licit and Illicit Monetary Flows and State-Corporate Interests Fueling Migrant Detention in New Jersey and Beyond
K. Sebastian León
Chapter 20: Do You Want to Come Back? A Transgender Woman's Story Between Honduras and the EDC
Xiomara Flores (with Ulla D. Berg)
PART V: The End of Immigration Detention in New Jersey?
Chapter 21: Towards Abolition: Fighting Detention in Trump-Era New Jersey
Mary Rizzo and Whitney Strub
Chapter 22: "Daddy, this China?": Ibrahim's Experience in EDC During the COVID-19
Ibrahim (with Ulla D. Berg)
Chapter 23: Aganan v. Rodriguez and the Fight to #FreeThem All
Jessica Rofé
Chapter 24: Asylum Granted, Peace Denied: Fearing a New Era in January 2025
Ivo and Gabriel (with Gloria d'Alessio)
Chapter 25: The Detention Ban Ripple Effect: Defending Community Wins and Sustaining National Momentum
Gabriela Viera
Afterword
Silky Shah
Notes on Contributors
Index
