This week on Third Place, we speak with Jan Meslin, a volunteer with CIVIC (Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement) on the U.S. government's practice of detaining 34,000 immigrants nightly across the country, mainly in for-profit private detention facilities including several in Louisiana. Jan was touring Baton Rouge and New Orleans organizing ordinary people like you to visit detained people at these sites like the Lasalle Detention Center in Jena, LA. We hear those immigrants' stories, about the hunger strike by asylum-seekers at LaSalle, how the private prison industry makes money off of immigrant detention, and what you can do to end the isolation of people kept in these prisons. Find out more at: www.endisolation.org
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