What to do?--Our task will be to define a center anew that can hold things together when everything is falling apart. We must know why the center is the center to hold ourselves together.

After fleeing homophobia and threats to her life in her native El Salvador, ‘Carla’ was detained for two years inside the Buffalo Federal Detention Center. Her letters provide a powerful and unique account of a queer woman’s experience inside America’s asylum system. Letters from Inside a U.S. Detention Center reconstructs Carla’s story from the correspondence between Carla and Jane Juffer, a professor at Cornell University, and from excerpts from the legal decisions made while she was being held in immigration detention. Contextualised with explanation and analysis of detention in the United States, the book examines how detention exacerbates the trauma many migrants experience and becomes another site of fear, intimidation, and uncertainty. Carla’s narrative is a powerful story, and one that illustrates grievous injustices in the U.S. immigration and asylum system. The book will be of immense value to immigration activists and scholars alike, especially in feminist studies, queer studies, and those studying the intersections of prisons and detention centres.

This series follows a young girl, Robyn, on her journey through the Texas Criminal Diversion program for girls. Robyn is given a choice of spending her time in the prison or to take part in an experimental diversion program. The only catch is that Robyn must endure harsh punishments in the form of spankings, bondage and humiliation. Part one follows Robyn and her new friends on their first day at the Lone Star Detention Center. The girls will soon learn that they nay have been better off in prison. Part two introduces some new characters. It follows Robyn and her friends through Robyn's second day at The Lone Star Detention Center for Girls. Part three brings the girls face to face with the harsh realities of their imprisonment. The weekend was sort of lacks; the weekday brings them face to face with the true nature of the detention center.

It's day 2 of the extermination of the worst criminals in Tersatellus, and things aren't looking much easier for anyone involved. Temporarily exiled in Hudson Bay, the criminals in question have to deal with all sorts of cultural divides, from language barriers to locals trying to kill them, not to mention the wildlife trying to eat them and automobile malfunctions trying to fry them. And that's just when the two established gangs aren't fighting. Well, technically only two. When new participants turn out to be old friends interested in a treasonous alliance, Rat manages to find herself in even deeper trouble, which is impressive for someone who started her Monday blowing up an island and being revealed as one of the greatest saboteurs of her country's history. With her own past unravelling beyond her control and her future turning less certain by the hour, this longtime fugitive of the law has to figure out where her loyalties lie and what things she can't escape from.

On September 30, 2003, Calvin was declared innocent and set free from Angola State Prison, after serving 22 years for a crime he did not commit. Like many other exonerees, Calvin experienced a new world that was not open to him. Hitting the streets without housing, money, or a change of clothes, exonerees across America are released only to fend for themselves. In the tradition of Studs Terkel's oral histories, this book collects the voices and stories of the exonerees for whom life — inside and out — is forever framed by extraordinary injustice

When the American Dream becomes a nightmare... Running a one-man law practice in the heart of Oregon's wine country, Cal Claxton hires a young, undocumented man as an assistant, hoping to give him an opportunity to create more stability for himself and his family. Timoteo Fuentes is a bright, hardworking student by day and Cal's legal clerk by night, juggling both roles with determination and grit. When one of Timoteo's family members is brutally murdered, the migrant community is reluctant to cooperate with the police investigation for fear of deportation. Devastated by the loss and nervous about engaging with the legal system, the family turns to Cal for help. With Timoteo protected as a "Dreamer" from deportation, the two begin a dangerous investigation of ruthless people who leverage the fear of a vulnerable population for profit and an assassin who is as cunning as he is deadly. Can Cal and Timoteo untangle the web of deceit or will they become victims themselves?