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.