visit our friends in detention
As a co-founding member of Georgia Detention Watch, Alterna organizes humanitarian visitations to the men detained at the Stewart Detention Center in rural southwest Georgia.
The Stewart Detention Center, owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of America, is the largest immigrant detention center in the United States. Alterna and Georgia Detention Watch have long monitored this facility, documenting alleged violations of human rights and detention standards and organizing vigils remembering the detainees trapped there and Roberto Martinez Medina who died while detained there.
If you have a group that would like to visit detainees at the Stewart Detention Center, please contact us at info@alternacommunity.com.
Important links on immigration detention:
- Alterna is a founding member of Georgia Detention Watch.
- Alterna is a member of Detention Watch Network.
- Alterna is a lead partner in Detention Watch Network’s Dignity not Detention campaign.
- The Business of Detention: Cracking down on immigration and locking up profits
VIDEO: Unjust and Unwarranted – The reality of immigration detention in America
VIDEO: Footage from 2007 vigil at the Stewart Detention Center
VIDEO: Footage from 2009 vigil at the Stewart Detention Center
VIDEO: Footage from 2010 vigil at the Stewart Detention Center
