Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/19/2017
3:30 pm
Location
Berks County Family Detention Center
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Hosted by Shut Down Berks Interfaith Witness
Pennsylvania is one of two states in the nation that hosts a prison for immigrant children, known as the Berks County Detention Center, the others being Texas. Families have reported verbal abuse, worker’s right abuse, medical neglect and in it’s first year of operation a mother was raped in front of other families.
Rev. Sandra Fees of the First UU Church of Berks County will be leading our next vigil at the prison. Please join us as we continue to lift our voices for the individuals who continue to be detained in the Berks County Detention Center.
Governor Wolf has known for two years that his administration could remove families from the abuse and neglect that they have been enduring in the Berks County Family Detention Center. The Governor’s administration has done the bare minimum to right the immoral and illegal detention of immigrant families. Families continue to be abused under the state’s watch. Governor Wolf is up for reelection in 2018. We need a Governor who goes beyond words, someone who takes action for the immigrant community. If he wants to count on the progressive vote then he needs to act by issuing an emergency removal order on the Berks County Family Detention Center NOW. In June of 2017 a federal judge ruled yet again that the detention of children is a violation of federal regulations. Yet the BCRC has done nothing to comply with the judge’s order. The state is opening itself up to serious legal liability by facilitating BCRC ongoing violation of the court’s order. #ShutDownBerks #Not1more