Detention Watch Network (DWN) is a national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, and strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the United States. DWN was founded in 1997 by the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service in response to the rapid growth of the immigration detention system in the United States, as a result of the immigration laws passed by Congress in 1996.
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Silky Shah is the Executive Director of Detention Watch Network.
10 people are employed at Detention Watch Network.
Detention Watch Network is based in Washington, District of Columbia.
The NAICS codes for Detention Watch Network are [92, 9221, 92214, 922].
The SIC codes for Detention Watch Network are [92, 922].