06/01/2026
Alligator Alcatraz is about to close. But the fight is not over.
This weekend, we gathered outside Alligator Alcatraz to demand justice, dignity, accountability, and transparency for everything that happened behind those fences.
Thanks to of the South and The Workers Circle, funding has been secured to continue supporting the people who remain detained there and the families still living with the consequences of this system.
We also had the opportunity to meet Justo, Arianne’s father. We first met Arianne in Miramar on the day her father was detained. Since then, we have watched her fight tirelessly—speaking to the media, exposing abuses, seeking legal support, and refusing to give up until her father finally regained his freedom.
Stories like Arianne’s remind us that change does not happen on its own. It happens because families refuse to surrender, communities organize, and ordinary people continue raising their voices when others would rather they stay silent.
When this detention center closes, we cannot simply turn the page.
There must be accountability for the inhumane conditions that have been reported, for the suffering inflicted on so many families, for the abuses committed in the name of immigration detention, and for the corruption that allowed it to continue.
We will continue showing up, documenting, accompanying families, and demanding truth and justice.
Because closing a prison does not erase what happened inside it.
