Biography
Nilson Barahona Marriaga, a Honduran immigrant and longtime Georgia resident, spent thirteen months in ICE detention and organized a hunger strike at Irwin County Detention Center.
Nilson Barahona Marriaga, a Honduran immigrant and longtime Georgia resident, spent thirteen months in ICE detention and organized a hunger strike at Irwin County Detention Center.
In interviews published in Cruel by Design, he described retaliation through solitary confinement and transfer, legal-access obstacles, and advocacy after release to his family. Exact custody endpoints are not supplied.
Source: Immigrant Defense Project / Center for Constitutional Rights, Cruel by Design, February 2022, PDF pages 6, 23, 24, 32, 33, 38. This historical source does not establish present custody status.
Portrait: original illustration published in Cruel by Design, PDF page 6. Report design credited to Luis Mallo & Vlad Archin; the individual portrait artist is not separately credited. This is an illustration, not an unaltered photograph.
