In CBS News and the Miami Herald: Wives of detainees at federal detention center in Miami draw attention to inhumane conditions

Judith Castellanos, the wife of Cuban migrant Marlon Cervelo Trujillo speaks during a press conference in front of the Federal Detention Center (FDC) in Downtown Miami where he's being detained, to ask for him to be released, on Wednesday July 15, 2026. Pedro Portal, Miami Herald.

CBS News and the Miami Herald covered a press conference co-organized by the Workers Circle drawing attention to the inhumane conditions at a federal detention center in Miami. As a direct result of the press conference, some detainees have been released from solitary confinement.

“We’re working directly with families of the detained and the detainees to document the abuses. We make sure that everybody else knows what we know."

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About The Workers Circle

The Workers Circle is a national, secular Jewish social justice organization founded by Eastern European immigrants who fled pogroms and persecutions to seek democratic freedoms and build “a better and more beautiful world for all” at the turn of the 20th century. That history drives our work for human equality and robust democracy today. Our multigenerational activist community of 250,000+ people powers our strategic, non-partisan campaigns to empower voters, strengthen Constitutional rights, and build a durable, grassroots infrastructure to demand the multiracial democracy we need. Core campaigns of the Workers Circle include freedom vigils, talk to your sheriff, democracy circles, and voter empowerment.