A powerful report from @laurenvillagran.bsky.social, cuts through misconceptions about detention, who is detained, sheds important light on how awful food and care are in detention: eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
In this No Jargon podcast episode, Nancy Hiemstra (stonybrooku.bsky.social) explains how detention became a massively profitable industry, highlighting who profits, who pays, and how communities across the country have become tied to detention economics.
🎧 Listen now: scholars.org/podcast/big-...
Phenomenal investigative reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social in the Arizona Daily Star:
Here’s my co-author and great colleague @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social speaking about our work with @scholars.org
scholars.org/podcast/big-...
📘TODAY📘
Authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social discuss their book, Immigration Detention Inc. with Setareh Gandehari of the @detentionwatchnetwork.org
🗓️Fri, Oct 3
⏰6 pm
📍@peoplesbooktakoma.com
peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/immigr...
Federal law generally prohibits schools from releasing students's personal info without parental consent. ICE officers can only access a student's confidential information if they have a signed judicial warrant or a subpoena.
Here's what else you should know before the first day of school:
“We have studied immigration detention for over a decade and can say with grim certainty that it's just a matter of time until someone dies at Alligator Alcatraz.”
Immigration Detention Inc. authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social for @newsweek.com
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The Trump administration is set to expand Fort Bliss into the largest immigration detention center in the country, but the El Paso community is pushing back.
We join demands for transparency and assurance that local elected officials, attorneys, and advocates will be able to access the facility.
The SSN Media Fellowship is back for a third year! This program supports SSN members who are new to media work by connecting them with mentors in the network, offering workshops with the SSN national staff, and more. #Fellowship
🗓️ Apply by September 1st
🔗 Apply now: scholars.org/features/ssn...
@drdconlon.bsky.social, author of Immigration Detention Inc. speaks with the Make Me Smart Podcast by @marketplace.org about how immigration detention became dominated by private companies in the United States.
Listen here: www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...
“The authors reviewed hundreds of ICE inspection reports and compared them with external. The discrepancies are stark.”
@austinkocher.com in conversation with Immigration Detention Inc. authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social
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@drdconlon.bsky.social, author of Immigration Detention Inc. speaks with the Make Me Smart Podcast by @marketplace.org about how local economies have become entangled with the business of detention.
Listen here: www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...
Hey Bluesky community, can we please elevate/reshare this issue like crazy to get @bsky.app's attention? It is absurd that after two years of promising to make user's data accessible for download, Bluesky STILL hasn't provided a simple accessible way to do this. Release our data!!!
“We have studied immigration detention for over a decade and can say with grim certainty that it's just a matter of time until someone dies at Alligator Alcatraz.”
Immigration Detention Inc. authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social for @newsweek.com
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just went to immigration court in Lower Manhattan to see with my own eyes how masked and armed federal agents are apprehending people in the hallways as they walk out of their scheduled hearings.
@nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and me @drdconlon.bsky.social have a new op-ed in Newsweek. Thanks to Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org for all the support with this:
www.newsweek.com/people-will-...
"They give you food only once a day, food that even has worms in it," Izquierdo said.
📚See you at the American Library Association Conference!📚
Authors @kylietcheung.bsky.social, @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social, and @drdconlon.bsky.social will speak about their books. Come join us!
🗓️June 26-30
🎟https://2025.alaannual.org/
📕Find Pluto and other radicals at @socialismconference.org in Chicago!
Authors @kylietcheung.bsky.social, @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social will speak about their books. Come join us!
🗓️July 3-6
socialismconference.org/2025-schedule/
Immigration Detention Inc Book Launch: July 1, 7pm at Book Culture @drdconlon.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social
📚See you at the American Library Association Conference!📚
Authors @kylietcheung.bsky.social, @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social, and @drdconlon.bsky.social will speak about their books. Come join us!
🗓️June 26-30
🎟https://2025.alaannual.org/
“A revealing overview of the American business of for-profit migrant incarceration.”
Immigration Detention Inc. by Nancy Hiemstra and @drdconlon.bsky.social reviewed in @publisherswkly.bsky.social
UK and France in talks over a one in, one out migrant returns agreement on.ft.com/3RSo5Jo
For @truthout.org I wrote about Mahmoud Khalil’s detention, how Trump is capitalizing on the normalization of incarcerating immigrants to enforce his creeping fascist agenda, and why this moment calls for us to bridge across our movements for social change. truthout.org/articles/kha...
Columbia University’s immediate submission & betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that appears intent on destroying US higher education.
Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson:
www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...
Read @aviddetention.bsky.social's review of @mfbosworth.bsky.social's Supply Chain Justice: "[I]t is people who are the 'product' — people who arrive or stay in the UK and are subject to detention, people who are sorted, managed, moved, and monetised."
www.aviddetention.org.uk/article/refl...
#NewYorkCity: Today, city leaders took one of many necessary steps to protect immigrant communities from the Trump administration’s relentless attacks by passing resolutions in support of the Access to Representation Act and the New York for All Act.
With this move, the NYC Council chose to support due process and strengthen public safety in this critical moment. Now, Governor Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers must do the same and safeguard immigrant communities by passing these two critical state bills.
Read our full statement ⬇️
This case concerns an Executive Order issued on March 6, 2025, entitled, “Addressing Risks From Perkins Coie LLP” (“the Order”). The Order is an affront to the Constitution and our adversarial system of justice. Its plain purpose is to bully those who advocate points of view that the President perceives as adverse to the views of his Administration, whether those views are presented on behalf of paying or pro bono clients. Perkins Coie brings this case reluctantly. The firm is comprised of lawyers who advocate for clients; its attorneys and employees are not activists or partisans. But Perkins Coie’s ability to represent the interests of its clients—and its ability to operate as a legal-services business at all—are under direct and imminent threat. Perkins Coie cannot allow its clients to be bullied. The firm is committed to a resolute defense of the rule of law, without regard to party or ideology, and therefore brings this lawsuit to declare the Order unlawful and to enjoin its implementation.
When I was young--which is to say, up until January 19, 2025--lawsuits were sort of boring and technical. Now they're bold and technicolor, as good lawyers stand up against against a luridly criminal administration. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NEW from me in the FT today... The UK's university 'system' is now in freefall. How on Earth did the disaster unfold? Read all about it: www.ft.com/content/0ec7...
