End Detention of Immigrants

Read about the Rally at General Conference 2012 to end the private prison industry’s increased detention-for-profit policies

Here are some things you can do:

• Visit migrants in detention or prison:
  detentionwatchnetwork.org/visitation.
• Read The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. Join efforts to change sentencing laws and end mass incarceration of communities of color: sentencingproject.org.
• Support National Justice for Our Neighbors, our United Methodist migrant legal aid program Advance #901285 or contact Amar@umcor.org for more information
• Support detainees and their families through prayers, bond, material aid and accompaniment:
  newsanctuarynyc.org or crln.org/Interfaith-Committee.
• View the PBS Frontline documentary Lost in Detention with family and friends:
  pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/lost-in-detention.
• Join the divestment campaign from private prisons Corrections Corporation of America and the G EO Group:
  enlaceintl.org/programs/prison-divestment.
• Call on the Obama Administration to take executive action to stop detentions and deportations:
  umc-gbcs.org