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    • HOME
    • THE FILMS
      • THE MEETING
      • SEEING YOU
      • DETENTION IS DEADLY
      • LIFE, IN THERE
      • ESCAPE
      • STORIES WE WERE TOLD
      • REMAKING THE INDUSTRY
      • THIS NEVER HAPPENED HERE
      • COMO SE HACE
    • ABOUT CHILD DETENTION
      • Hidden in Plain Sight
      • FAQs: Background
      • FAQs: Life in detention
    • PUBLICATIONS
    • ABOUT
    • SANCTUARY FOR ALL
  • HOME
  • THE FILMS
    • THE MEETING
    • SEEING YOU
    • DETENTION IS DEADLY
    • LIFE, IN THERE
    • ESCAPE
    • STORIES WE WERE TOLD
    • REMAKING THE INDUSTRY
    • THIS NEVER HAPPENED HERE
    • COMO SE HACE
  • ABOUT CHILD DETENTION
    • Hidden in Plain Sight
    • FAQs: Background
    • FAQs: Life in detention
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LIFE, IN THERE

X is a former employee at a detention facility for undocumented migrant children in Chicago, operated by Heartland Alliance.  He agrees to be recorded but asks for his face to be concealed and his voice to be substituted.  Jesús is an experienced English/Spanish interpreter who provides language access for several community groups. The video centers Jesus’ live interpretation of part of X's testimonio describing the daily brutality of incarceration in its minute and seemingly insignificant detai


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