SAY NO to an ICE detention center in Winton, NC! Keep Rivers Correctional Institution closed!

A lawsuit filed by ACLU-NC revealed critical details about ICE's detention expansion plans, including that GEO Group, a private, for-profit prison corporation, proposed reopening the Rivers Correctional Institution in Winton, North Carolina as an ICE detention center. Local community advocates have observed increased activity at the former prison.

Currently, one person is dying weekly in ICE custody.

We say no to detention centers! The conditions and operation of ICE detention centers are inhumane, violating standards of human dignity. People are held without due process or access to legal support. People are subject to unsanitary conditions, inadequate/inedible food, violence, mistreatment, and withholding of medical care. ICE detention is marked by the lack of due process and a pattern of abuse and violence.

During this vigil we will collectively stand up for human rights, show up for community members who are being unjustly targeted, and raise awareness about the detention and deportation of immigrants that is happening quietly and insidiously outside of the public eye – right here in North Carolina. With the June override of the Governor's veto of Senate Bill 153 by the NC General Assembly, every undocumented person in NC is suddenly in much greater danger.