Prison Company Sues Activist for Writing About Family Separation
On 12/11/20 at 1:14 PM EST
She never returned.
Waiting outside her apartment was an officer of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The young undocumented mother soon found herself processed and detained at the Otay Mesa Detention Center, a government-contracted facility in San Diego run by the private prison company CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America.
Separated from her three daughters and facing a high-risk prison pregnancy owing to a difficult history with child-bearing, she experienced what her sister, Izabel, described to
Newsweek as a level of despair that left her despondent at the time and traumatized to this day.