Detention changes the arithmetic of a case. The deadlines are shorter, the hearings come faster, and the person who has to make the decisions is the one hardest to reach. The first hours matter: locating the facility, establishing contact, and getting a bond hearing on the calendar.

We appear at bond and custody redetermination hearings, seek release where the law allows it, and handle detained merits hearings on the accelerated schedule they run on. Families are kept informed throughout, in their own language, because being left in the dark is its own kind of harm.