Berks County Detention Center is officially shut down! A movement win nearly a decade in the making, members of the #ShutDownBerks Coalition campaign reflect on the closure of Berks Detention Center in TruthOut.

Read for inspiration & motivation. #AbolishDetention #immigration #berkscounty #immigrationdetention #detention

https://truthout.org/articles/a-victory-for-abolitionists-ice-run-immigration-prison-shuts-down-today/

RT @CASAforall@twitter.com

🚨Happening Now! Last week, we learned Berks County Detention Center will be closing as of January 31st. Today we are outside the detention center demanding that the women currently detained be released. #ShutDownBerks #EndDetention

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CASAforall/status/1600514488184233986

RT @BerksStandsUp@twitter.com

@POTUS@twitter.com @VP@twitter.com @SecMayorkas@twitter.com it's a great day here in Berks as women are being released and we have #ShutDownBerks but there's more to be done. #FreeThemAll #FreedomNotTransfers #CommunitiesNotCages https://twitter.com/ShutDownBerks/status/1598361284637913088

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BerksStandsUp/status/1598362586436685825

RT @ShutDownBerks@twitter.com

ORGANIZING WORKS! IT'S BEING SHUT DOWN!!!!!
This is a victory for the Berks community, A result of a collaborative effort between many including people who have suffered the violence of detention at Berks #ShutDownBerks #CommunitiesNotCages
https://www.readingeagle.com/2022/11/30/federal-government-to-close-berks-county-residential-center/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ShutDownBerks/status/1598060257607319554

RT @ShutDownBerks@twitter.com

ORGANIZING WORKS! IT'S BEING SHUT DOWN!!!!!
This is a victory for the Berks community, A result of a collaborative effort between many including people who have suffered the violence of detention at Berks #ShutDownBerks #CommunitiesNotCages
https://www.readingeagle.com/2022/11/30/federal-government-to-close-berks-county-residential-center/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ShutDownBerks/status/1598060257607319554

RT @ShutDownBerks@twitter.com

ORGANIZING WORKS! IT'S BEING SHUT DOWN!!!!!
This is a victory for the Berks community, A result of a collaborative effort between many including people who have suffered the violence of detention at Berks #ShutDownBerks #CommunitiesNotCages
https://www.readingeagle.com/2022/11/30/federal-government-to-close-berks-county-residential-center/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ShutDownBerks/status/1598060257607319554