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Two brave immigrants, Bayong Brown Bayong and Ahmed Adem, reported beatings at the hands of Butler corrections officers and filed a civil rights lawsuit with the Norris Law Group and John Camillus. Years of inhumane and racist treatment of immigrants at the Butler County Jail, including violent assaults, finally caught up with Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones.

An ACLU of Ohio lawsuit and community pushback forced ICE to stop using this facility to detain immigrants. When the Morrow County Jail failed to follow basic infectious disease protocols, the entire jail became infected with COVID-19. In at least two Ohio jails with ICE contracts, however, that standard of care existed only on paper, not in real life. In exchange for a daily, per person fee, the jailers agreed to provide a certain standard of care, like edible food and access to doctors. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), while they fight their deportation cases. Read on for additional background on the policy, human impacts, and better alternatives.īACKGROUNDER: IMMIGRATION DETENTION IN OHIOįor years, county jails fed off of a federal contract to detain immigrants for U.S. For this reason and many others, we need to end ICE detention now. Suddenly the “logic” behind the remote locations and oppressive conditions becomes clear: the system is designed to break people’s spirits and give up on their cases, rather than to succeed. The remote locations, far away from most immigration lawyers.ĭata from TRAC shows that immigrants in Ohio are ten times more likely to succeed in immigration court if they have a lawyer. The expensive phone calls to try to obtain documents needed to prove their immigration case. Now, with the Butler contract ending, ICE must release her to her children.Īnna discussed the lawsuit that her firm filed against the Butler County Jail for racist and violent abuse against two ICE detainees. She called for her clients, Bayong Brown Bayong and Ahmed Adem, to be released, and pledged to litigate the lawsuit fully.īrian described the absurdity of jailing people for civil paperwork issues, and the inhumanity of their treatment. government continues to appeal Sara’s case and refuse to release her from immigration jail. She was granted immigration relief by a judge under the Convention Against Torture, yet the U.S. Sara remains detained in Butler, despite being a victim of sexual abuse and trafficking. Danya specifically referenced the case of Sara Mendez-Morales. Lynn Tramonte of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance moderated the call.ĭanya referenced the courage of immigrants reporting these abuses. She said the next move for ICE must be to release people from Butler, so they can continue their cases from home, with lawyers. Hear testimony from Abdoulaye Lam and Demba Diawara, two Ohio fathers who spent months in Butler County Jail before being deported.Īlso speaking on the call were Danya Contractor with Ohio Immigrant Visitation  Anna Nathanson, Norris Law Group  Sandra Ramirez IJPC’s Youth Educating Society and Brian Hoffman, OCSILiO : The Ohio Center for Strategic Immigration Litigation & Outreach. If you missed it, watch the press conference here. Advocates and lawyers spoke with reporters about this development in a Zoom meeting on May 28, which included remarks from people who had spent time in that jail. The Butler County Jail is getting out of the business of “civil” immigration detention, and the community is celebrating. Two county jails in Ohio continue to detain immigrants: Geauga County (Chardon, OH) and Seneca County (Tiffin, OH).

As a result of our organizing across the state (#FreeThemAll), the Morrow County Jail (Mount Gilead, OH, about 40 miles NE of Columbus) announced earlier this year that it is also ending its contract with ICE. The jail is one of four county jails in Ohio that has been under contract with ICE to detain immigrants. Note: Butler County Jail is located in Hamilton, OH, about 20 miles north of Cincinnati. *Thank you to Ohio Immigrant Alliance for the article*