Bob Libal is Grassroots Leadership's Texas Campaigns Coordinator and heads the group's Campaign to End Immigrant Family Detention, an effort that successfully led to the end of family detention at the notorious T. Don Hutto ”Family Residential Facility” in Taylor, Texas.

He serves on the national steering committee of the Detention Watch Network, and as editor of the Texas Prison Bid'ness blog which monitors the private prison industry in Texas. Bob is a co-author of "A Prison is Not a Home," a chapter in the upcoming AK Press anthology Beyond Walls and Cages which analyzes the intersection of immigration and the prison industrial complex.