The COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly spreading throughout the US immigrant detention system and beyond. This webinar covers the conditions in immigrant detention facilities in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama; litigation that seeks the release of different populations of detainees; alternatives to detention; and the troubled history of detention in the region. Speakers include:
***Donald Kerwin, Executive Director of the Center for Migration Studies (CMS);
***Hiroko Kusuda, Clinic Professor and Director of the Immigration Law Section of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law;
***Amelia S. McGowan, the Immigration Campaign Director of the Mississippi Center for Justice, and an Adjunct Professor at the Mississippi College School of Law Immigration Clinic; and
***Mark Dow, the author of American Gulag: Inside US Immigration Prisons, the definitive study on the US detention system.
The event was sponsored by CMS, the Loyola University of New Orleans College of Law, the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University, and the Mississippi Center for Justice.
