Elizabeth Marie Rios Condemns CCA at Shutdown Stewart County Detention C...

Elizabeth Marie Rios is the wife of a former detainee at Stewart County Detention Center. She spoke directly to the CCA & ICE officials who were blocking the gate to the complex on CCA Road. She denounces the horrors to which she and her husband were subjected while he was detained at the facility: not knowing or being able to find out where he was; the almost impossible & arduous journey to get from North Charlestown, South Carolina, to the facility, to which no public transportation is available; the water that turns one's clothes green & one's skin grey; & the city of Lumpkin, which is one of the poorest in the country - it receives almost no benefit from having the facility in the area, while inmates are coerced into performing all of the work!

She was introduced by Anton Flores-Maisonet. Anton is an activist, speaker, writer, husband, father, & co-founder of Alterna - a missional community comprised of US citizens and Latino immigrants.

More information about Anton Flores & the amazing work which he is doing with ALTERNA may be found here:

http://www.alternacommunity.com/
https://www.facebook.com/alternacommunity
http://www.youtube.com/user/AlternaMedia

https://www.facebook.com/antonfloresmaisonet

https://twitter.com/ANTONofALTERNA

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More about Georgia Detention Watch may be found here:

http://www.georgiadetentionwatch.com/
https://www.facebook.com/GeorgiaDetentionWatch
https://twitter.com/GaDetWatch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjHbjaHy2ZY

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GDW & ALTERNA are among a group of organizations which help support El Refugio at Stewart County Detention Center (a hospitality house part way between the town of Lumpkin and the detention center), the others being ACLU of Georgia (http://www.acluga.org), CIVIC ( http://www.endisolation.org/ ), Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR: http://glahr.org) along with Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (http://lirs.org) and Lutheran Services of GA's Volunteer, Congregation and Community Engagement program, Café Campesino (http://www.cafecampesino.com), & Koinonia Farm (http://www.koinoniapartners.org).

More information about El Refugio at Stewart County Detention Center may be found here:

http://elrefugiostewart.org/
https://www.facebook.com/elrefugiostewart

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The facebook events for this vigil/rally may be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/639727109382361/
https://www.facebook.com/events/216808995157834/

The SOAW stub for the event may be found here:

http://soaw.org/november/schedule/stewartdetention/

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Press coverage of the event may be found here:

http://www.wrbl.com/story/24048377/georgia-detention-watch-protests-stewart-detention-center

http://mundohispanico.com/news/2013/nov/27/piden-cierre-de-carcel-de-inmigracion/

An absolute must-see video about the detention center produced by Cuentame for Brave New Foundation should be seen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faaMM3zpuoY

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