Detain and Punish: Haitian Refugees and the Rise of the World's Largest Immigration Detention System

Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Haiti-Dominican Republic Section Isis Duarte Book Prize

Immigrants make up the largest proportion of federal prisoners in the United States, incarcerated in a vast network of more than two hundred detention facilities. This book investigates when detention became a centerpiece of U.S. immigration policy, revealing why the practice was reinstituted in 1981 after being halted for several decades and how the system expanded to become the wor...