A child’s drawing of a hand with sad face and a cat, along with Spanish text translated below in English, below which reads: A letter obtained by ProPublica from a child detained at CoreCivic's Dilley, Texas ICE facility. "I feel bad being here! Bad because I can't because I can't see my pet willi and I can't eat what I want and I can't see my friends from school and at home."
A child’s drawing of a boys face crying and a house, with text in Spanish and English: "We are all stuck in rooms that can hold 12 people they won't let us go out to the playgrounds and park and it's very boring to do every day God touch the hearts of those at ICE let us out We are not criminals I want to go home." encerkados en canktor enlos que 12 personas ben asi ho nos. dejah falir que hay Em dos juegos y parque yes muy abuttido hacer Yodo 1i09 toque los corazones de los de ice dejennos galir No Somos criminales I want to go home A letter from 13-year-old Gerson Lopéz Garcia, obtained by ProPublica.
Handwriting on lined paper reading: I couldn't walk to the medical. No one checked on me until 2pm, when I was wheelchaired to medical, only to be seen by a nurse who told me "I can't help you. Go and come back if you still have pain in 3 days". I told her I could't even walk. I cried and begged her to help me, yet all she did was send me to the waitingroom. I then fell to my hands and Knees and threw up in side the waiting room. It was only then that I was taken seriously and transferred to a nearby ER, It was chly then that I was given proper medication, it was already 4pm, more than 7 hours after my pain had started I had to wait till 11pm after that
A colorful background photo of many children outside with large letters reading: Hey CoreCivic & Citizens Bank: Children don’t belong in prisons.
ICE has detained more than 6,200 children in CoreCivic and GEO Group ICE facilities since 2025. Citizens Bank still profits from financing their crimes. @propublica.org revealed these kids’ stories through art. #DeICECitizensBank #AbolishICE #AbolishForProfitPrisons @de-icecitizensbank.org
