In fall of 2015, immigrants at detention centers in Georgia, Alabama, Colorado, Florida, and several other states launched a hunger strike campaign to protest their inhumane treatment. Rather than address their concerns, Barack Obama’s administration and corporate prison operators responded with sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, transfers to other facilities, and threat of force-feeding. This panel will discuss the conditions that led to the hunger strike as well as the work that was done from the outside to help support their calls for justice, including innovative legal tactics to seek release from detention, such as what has been done around family detention or prolonged detention. The panel will also address ongoing work to shut down immigration detention centers and how the public can lend support. This workshop is being presented as part of the National Lawyers Guild Law for the People Convention. The presenters are Fahd Ahmad, Abraham Paulos, Paromita Shah, and Azadeh Shahshahani.