We know that ICE and GEO have no regard for human life. More people continue to die in ICE custody. Hunger strikers have sounded the alarm again and again throughout the years: food is inedible, medical neglect is a constant, racist bad treatment by GEO guards and ICE officers is a given especially if you are a person of color and don’t speak English, GEO doesn’t provide clean bedding, towels, underwear and wont hire cleaning crews in order to make more profit, the commissary store run by Keefe Group makes a killing by selling expensive items to people detained.
Free Them All is a public campaign where people detained reach out to La Resistencia for community support. They ask that we all, free on the outside, fight for them to be released from NWDC ICE detention due to the injustice of the system, the criminalization of our communities and the inhumane and unbearable detention conditions, all of this purposely designed for profit.
Join us in highlighting different people who are detained inside the NWDC in Tacoma, WA, Puyallup land. Write, call, tweet for EVERY person who is bravely deciding to go public and share their stories with us, deciding to risk the retaliation inside for fighting for their rights. The time to #ShutDownNWDC and #FreeThemAll is now!
#FreeJoaoBatista!
“My name is Joao Batista and I am 57 years old and disabled. I’ve lived in the U.S. for 27 years. I have 2 daughters that need me back home. I am here because of USCIS’s incompetence. In the Northwest Detention Center conditions are bad: food is cold, late, and it has rat feces. We are cold and hungry. I’ve been here for 6 months and I can tell you that nobody deserves to be here.”
#FreeWalterOsorio!
“I’ve lived in the U.S. for 17 years. My life and my family are here. There are many injustices I’ve witnessed since being detained in the NWDC, like meals getting delayed for 3 hours.
Many people don’t get their medication on time and that has a drastic impact on our health. GEO staff is also racist towards me.
GEO knows I’m unwell and at some point I could not walk. Every step hurt. I was told I would start treatment but that I would have to wait 1 month—it’s been 5 months and I am still waiting”
“Please sign my petition so I can be back home with my family and access adequate medical treatment for my back.”