Reflections on creating Arizona: The Cost of Immigrant Detention

ABSTRACT Arizona State University graduate students created a museum panel titled Arizona: The Cost of Immigrant Detention to include in the Humanities Action Lab’s (HAL) States of Incarceration traveling exhibition. This article summarizes the panel and its contents, as well as the process of creating the panel and its accompanying online material. It also looks at the author’s personal feelings toward museums and their usefulness as tools for social change. Specifically, the author and his peers hope to use the online platform created by the HAL to shape the debate during the 2018 Arizona Gubernatorial election.