In late July, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement gave civil rights advocates access to three of Louisiana’s nine detention centers, including the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Alexandria that is now a hub for transfers from across the country. Advocates say the facilities, ringed with barbed wire and run like prisons, reveal a system built for indefinite detention rather than due process.

Kerry Kennedy and Anthony Enriquez of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joined ACLU of Louisiana leaders Alanah Odoms and Nora Ahmed on the tour. They described unsanitary conditions, inadequate medical care, and even reports of sexual assault, raising the alarm over ICE’s expanding use of Louisiana as a detention pipeline.Read the full story here.