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RELEASE THEM NOW!

The Release Them Now! campaign by Dream Action Oklahoma demands the end of inhumane detention center conditions and prison collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Prison and immigration detention centers’ conditions were inhumane before the pandemic. Now law enforcement has done little to none to ensure the safety and health of detainees during COVID-19. With no social distancing and other precautions, those detained are at high risk of contracting the virus and dying from it.

Our communities are battling with the impacts of COVID-19, and ICE continues to detain our loved ones. This campaign strives to highlight our immigrant community’s experiences, expose ICE for continuing to operate with inhumane conditions, and call for the IMMEDIATE RELEASE of our loved ones.

COVID CASES IN OKLAHOMA

Number of confirmed cases: 551,958

Deaths: 9,199

DETENTION CENTERS

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287gs:

287(g) program allows state and local agencies to act as immigration enforcement agents. Under 287(g), ICE forms an agreement with a state or local agency – most often a county sheriff that runs a local jail. Thus, the deal delegates specific immigration enforcement authority to designated officers within the local agency. These agreements are also known as “287(g) contracts” or “MOAs” (Memorandum of Agreement). The program gets its name from section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Other Agreements:

The counties without a 287(g) use their own discretionary programs allowing ICE to work in jails and prisons. Oklahoma County Jail Trustee Francie Ekwerekwu says, “There’s no state or county law that requires us … to possess any presence of an ICE officer at the jail.” It isn’t obligatory to hold ICE in prisons. However, prison officials and ICE are profiting off jailing undocumented people and creating a deportation pipeline in the carceral system.

Detention Centers’ Addresses

  • David L. Moss Criminal Justice Center

    • 300 N. Denver Ave. Tulsa, OK, 74103

  • Grady County Law Enforcement Center

    • 215 North 3rd Street Chickasha, OK, 73018

  • Kay County Detention Center

    • 1101 West Dry Road Newkirk, OK, 74647

  • Oklahoma County Jail

    • 201 N Shartel Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73102

  • Sovereign Row (ICE Sub Hold Office)

    • 1220 Sovereign Row, Oklahoma City, OK 73108.

  • Moore Detention Center

    • 111 S. Alabama Ave., Okmulgee, OK 74447

  • Garvin County Jail

    • 201 W Grant Ave., Pauls Valley, OK 73075