How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention

An urgent polemic and practical guide to dismantling the immigrant detention system

Masked federal agents are kidnapping and killing our neighbors, on the streets and behind the bars of hundreds of detention centers across the country. In How to Close a Camp, award-winning journalist and translator John Washington offers a galvanizing, clear-eyed case for why we must close these camps—and how to do it.

In spite of the decades-long growth of immigrant detention, communities have been fighting...