URGENT - WA RESIDENTS
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO SHUT DOWN NORTHWEST DETENTION CENTER FOR GOOD.
Fast facts:
- Charles Leo Daniel (of Trinidad and Tobago) died inside solitary confinement on March 7, 2024. His cause of death has not been determined, but an investigation by the UW Center for Human Rights has found that he was kept in solitary for nearly FOUR YEARS.
- Since then, there have been multiple suicide attempts inside NWDC, and over 300 people have gone on hunger strike inside
- NWDC is a PRIVATELY OWNED detention center that works with ICE to hold people they consider "deportable." It is not a prison, it is a "civil detention center," which means there is no right to a speedy trial, and peoples deportation cases can drag on for years. We want to see them free and with their families while they wait for their hearing, not trapped in a deadly, for-profit facility.
La Resistencia has been trying to get this place shut down for 10 years, and the group I'm involved with, Tsuru for Solidarity, joined the fight in 2019. Now we are helping LR keep up an encampment outside NWDC so we can monitor the site 24/7.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
If you are in the Western Washington area, we strongly urge you to come down to the encampment outside NWDC, 1623 East J Street, Tacoma, WA. Come for a day or just stop by to drop off food, tsuru, kimochi, or support.
Demand the closure of the Northwest Detention Center!
Your support, at any amount, helps us to provide support for people being released, the encampment, and our ongoing work to shutdown NWDC
Follow Tsuru and La Resistencia for urgent updates, and join us at NWDC for vigils at 7pm each weekday and 1pm on weekends.
