T. Don Hutto Family
Detention Facility

In August 2009,the Obama administration announced the end of family detention at Hutto.
The past three years have seen thousands of people participate in dozens of Hutto vigils, two great documentary films on family detention, major media scrutiny, a landmark lawsuit settlement, 60,000 petition-signers, and the organizing of students, immigrant rights advocates, faith activists, and everyday people around the country to end family detention.

Ending family detention at Hutto is not just a victory for Grassroots Leadership's Campaign to End Immigrant Family Detention, but for an entire movement for justice.

Hutto History - ICE held immigrant families at the T. Don Hutto family detention center. Before the successful legal action by the ACLU in the fall of 2007, children wore prison garb, and were denied adequate schooling, health care, and recreation. Despite some important improvements made as a result of community organizing, Hutto remained a medium security prison managed by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a for-profit adult corrections company. Grassroots Leadership and other organizations and individual continued to protest the Incarceration of infants and children at Hutto -- even with the "privacy curtains around toilets" mandated in the ACLU settlement.