How Texas Jails Built Migrant Incarceration
Following a 1925 investigation, immigrant detention in the Galveston County Jail was declared “a crime against humanity.”
Since 1954
Brianna Nofil is an Assistant Professor of History at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. She is the author of The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration.
Following a 1925 investigation, immigrant detention in the Galveston County Jail was declared “a crime against humanity.”