“When the iron door was opened, sounds peculiar to jails and prisons poured into my ears — the screams, the metallic clanging, officers’ keys clinking. Some of the women noticed me and smiled warmly or threw up their fists in gestures of solidarity”

The INS is holding immigrants in filthy, overcrowded jails across the country — with no rights, no charges, and no relief in sight

‘Imprisoned men and women are the drivers of a multibillion-dollar shadow economy: its laborers and its prey’