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Lauren Gilbert

Aug 2, 20183 min read

Strength, Character, and Love

I am writing after our fourth day at the Karnes Detention Center. It has been an overwhelming, inspiring, devastating, exhausting week. ...

Ilsa

Aug 2, 20184 min read

Seeing a child with a smile from cheek to cheek should always warm your heart; why is it that when Hugo, Franky, or so many of the...

Ilsa

Aug 1, 20182 min read

On Monday, July 30, 2018, I went with some of my STU classmates to the Karnes Family Residential Center (Karnes) in Karnes City, Texas....

STU_ILSA

Aug 1, 20181 min read

After three days of working with fathers and sons in the detention center my mind and my soul are shocked. We keep hearing about...

Ilsa

Aug 1, 20184 min read

As I sit inside the detention center, all I can think about is how hungry I am, how I wish I could lie down and take a nap because my...

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