Associate Professor Marni Shindelman’s photo series “Restore the Night Sky” highlighted by Texas Public Radio

Texas Public Radio recently highlighted an ongoing photography project by Associate Professor Marni Shindelman drawing attention to the glow of light pollution in the vicinity of 45 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers. Read excerpt below and find the full article here.

There are over 130 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers covering at least 38 states, according to online figures from ICE.

Hundreds more facilities across the country also act as detention centers, including hotels, hospitals, and jails.

These centers — which house the nearly 65,000 people currently being held in ICE detention — are brightly lit with LED lights at all hours of the day, impacting the dark skies that are prized by many rural towns.

Photographer Marni Shindelman began the project Restore the Night Sky to document the effects of light pollution at 45 private ICE detention centers across the U.S. The photographs don’t show any of the facilities — only the landscapes around them.