The coercive nature of jobs within the immigrant detention industrial complex—whether at privately-run ICE facilities in economically disinvested areas or with ICE itself—is not so different from the coercion that drives people to join the military.
Alma Bowman
Alma Bowman is an advocate for immigrants’ and women’s rights who blew the whistle on human rights violations in the Irwin County Detention Center. She is a member of Malaya Georgia and is currently detained in the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia.