An urgent social history of immigrant detention, mass incarceration, and deportation in the U.S.

Sitting on a dead-end road in the port of Elizabeth, New Jersey, is a windowless converted warehouse where normal due process protections do not apply. Managed by the private, for-profit prison operator CoreCivic, it has detained migrants and asylum seekers have been detained here, under inhumane conditions. Some never made it out. This book seeks to honor their memory and center the many stories of struggle of people detained at Elizabeth Detention Center. 

This anthology unites firsthand accounts of people detained, advocates, and organizers who situate local struggles within the wider landscape of U.S. immigration detention.