#corecivic — Public Fediverse posts
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Citizens Financial Group is facing pushback from shareholders, #customers and #activists who want the bank to cut ties w federal immigration detention center operators.The Greater #Boston #Interfaith Organization pledged to withdraw $1 million from its Citizens accounts Monday after CEO Bruce Van Saun allegedly went back on a promise to meet with them to discuss the bank’s relationship w #CoreCivic and The #GEOGroup, which each own and operate #ICE #detention centers. https://www.bankingdive.com/news/citizens-bank-customers-pull-money-over-lenders-ice-ties/819223/
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Unless the #leavenworth city council has seen contractual language AND is has assurances the State WILL PASS supporting laws, that #corecivic facility is likely going to be used as a base of operations for #ICE and #BP. You just traded a promised 300 new jobs for hundreds more lost b/c "illegals."
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@advocate.com "A married couple from #Azerbaijan says the #Trump administration is keeping one husband locked in an immigration detention center in Georgia even though both men, one of whom is a legal permanent resident, have agreed to leave the United States immediately. Their case raises questions about why the government is continuing to hold him at all."
#CoreCivic #GBLTQ #GBLTQRights #USPol #WorldPol #AsylumSeekers #DetentionCenters #ConcentrationCamps
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This Tennessee Prison Is Leaving LGBTQ People Unhoused Behind Bars
The South Central Correctional Center leaves LGBTQ people defenseless, so they’re organizing to fight for their safety.https://murica.website/2026/02/this-tennessee-prison-is-leaving-lgbtq-people-unhoused-behind-bars/
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"#GeoGroup and #CoreCivic spent millions lobbying for the Fair Access to Banking Act, a pending bill that seeks to prevent banks from denying access to institutions or people including those involved in “politically unpopular businesses" #privateprisons https://theintercept.com/2026/02/05/private-prison-corecivic-geo-group-ice-bank-loan/
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"#GeoGroup and #CoreCivic spent millions lobbying for the Fair Access to Banking Act, a pending bill that seeks to prevent banks from denying access to institutions or people including those involved in “politically unpopular businesses" #privateprisons https://theintercept.com/2026/02/05/private-prison-corecivic-geo-group-ice-bank-loan/
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#ICE’s #PrivatePrison Contractors Spent Millions Lobbying to Force Banks to Give Them Loans
Major banks have denied financing to #GEOGroup and #CoreCivic — but legislation pushed by the firms could force their hand.
Biplob Kumar Das
February 5 2026"Now, the private prison firms are fighting back, spending millions on lobbying Congress to pass a law to require that the banks can’t deny their business."
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https://theintercept.com/2026/02/05/private-prison-corecivic-geo-group-ice-bank-loan/Archived version:
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The #CoreCivic #PrivatePrison facility was closed during the #Biden admin & reopened in March 2025 after #Trump retook the presidency. A lawsuit is challenging the facility’s conditions, including inadequate #food, #water & #medical care.
#LiamRamos #law #immigration #HumanRights #ChildEndangerment #ChildNeglect #ChildAbuse
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Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old #ICE detained last week in #Minnesota, is being held in Dilley, #Texas in a center owned by #CoreCivic, a #PrivatePrison company that donated heavily to #Trump’s campaign. Liam is now reportedly sick because of the poor facility conditions.
#LiamRamos #law #immigration #HumanRights #ChildEndangerment #ChildNeglect #ChildAbuse
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“ICE: The Filthy Racket of Kidnapping For Corporate Slavery”
by KairosTimeNow, Kathy and Nouri in Manufacturing Dissent on Substack
“Washington’s Blood-Soaked Pipeline of Profit end Cruelty – Follow the Money and Prepare to Explode with Rage”
https://open.substack.com/pub/mandissent/p/ice-the-filthy-racket-of-kidnapping
#Press #US #ICE #Deportation #Slavery #Profit #CorporateGreed #CorporateSlavery #Racketeering #Trump #FakePatriotism #Theft #Quotas #Bribes #Kidnapping #EVerifyScam #Obama #Biden #GEO #CoreCivic
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In Earnings Calls, Private Prison Executives Revel in Profiting Off ICE Arrests
“Our business is perfectly aligned with the demands of this moment,” CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger said on the call. -
“Godsend” or “#ConcentrationCamp”? A Lucrative #ICE Deal Divides a #Colorado Town.
Trump has unleashed a gold rush among #PrivatePrison companies taking on #ImmigrationDetention. In #CashStrapped cities, residents aren’t sure the money is worth it.
Isabela Dias, November+December 2025 Issue
Excerpt: "[T]he prospect of a privately run #ICE facility has divided #WalsenburgCO. Some locals and public officials have welcomed the potential influx of money and jobs. 'It’s a godsend,' Mayor Gary Vezzani told a TV reporter in early July. 'If they use it for ICE or use it for a prison or use it for whatever they use it for, we really don’t care…It’s a pretty big paying customer for us. We’re not big enough, nor [is] anybody here big enough to stop it. So, we may as well take advantage.'
"The mayor’s comments sparked fierce backlash. At a July 15 county commissioners meeting, one resident succinctly shot back: 'We don’t want to be known as a town with a concentration camp.' At a city council meeting the same day, a speaker argued that 'what’s happening in Walsenburg isn’t just #corrupt. It’s #fascist. It’s a blueprint for #authoritarianism wrapped in barbed wire and dressed up as local revival.' "
#USPol #CORECivic #Colorado #DetentionCenters #ICEDetainees #ICESucks #PrivatePrisons #PrisonState #IndefiniteDetention
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Private Prisons: An Exceptionally Niche Asset Class Meets Its Moment
The #Trump administration’s #crackdown on foreign residents has investors and operators mulling new options
By Patrick Sisson, September 9, 2025
Excerpt: " 'I think the liability they’ve [#ForProfitPrisons] experienced is that at different times in their #corporate history, if the demand for #PrivatePrisons decreases, then they have empty facilities sitting there, right?' said Shar Habibi, research and policy director of In the Public Interest, a nonprofit that has advocated against private prisons. 'That’s not good.' "
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https://commercialobserver.com/2025/09/private-prisons-investment-immigration/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/v2EZr#USPol #TrumpSucks #PrisonState
#SilencingDissent #IndefiniteDetention #ICE #protesters #ICESucks #Corporatocracy #authoritarianism #PrivatePrison #GEOGroup #CoreCivic -
Fight to allow #ICE detainees: Federal government joins #PrivatePrison , #CoreCivic, against City of #LeavenworthKS
By Gabe Swartz
Published: Sep. 23, 2025LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (KCTV) - "In a Topeka courtroom Wednesday, September 24, CoreCivic, with the support of Washington D.C.’s Department of Justice went before a judge along with attorneys representing the City of Leavenworth.
"There, a judge scheduled a date for the two sides to meet again on #November25. In that hearing, CoreCivic will be allowed to present arguement that a Kansas court’s decision barring CoreCivic from housing #ICEDetainees should be overturned.
"The United States Department of Justice [#DOJ] filed a statement of interest on September 22 to address what it called 'an aggressive and unlawful effort' by the City of Leavenworth to interfere with federal immigration enforcement.
"The U.S. District Court was filed against the City of Leavenworth, Mayor #HollyPittman, Mayor Pro Tem #NancyBauder, and city commissioners Griff Martin, Jermaine Wilson, and Edd Hingula.
" 'The United States has a strong interest in countering state and local efforts to harass federal contractors, in the proper application of the Constitution and its Supremacy clause,' the DOJ said in its statement of interest, 'and in the foundational principles that protect the Federal Government from unconstitutional state and local interference.' [Back at ya, FEDS!]
"In March, the City of Leavenworth adopted a resolution preventing CoreCivic from using the former federal prison as an immigration detention center. It then filed a lawsuit asking a judge to block the private prison operator’s attempt to open the facility without its approval.
"The City opened its complaint with a testimonial describing the detention center as an 'absolute hell hole.' It stated that during CoreCivic’s 30 years of operation, there were 'multiple widely publicized scandals resulting from its gross mismanagement of the Facility,' which burdened the City in 'countless ways.' "
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https://www.kctv5.com/2025/09/24/department-justice-joins-corecivic-fight-against-city-leavenworth/#USPol #TrumpSucks #PrisonState
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#PrivatePrison Companies Set to Make Billions Reopening #Jails for #ICE
“There’s a private interest behind the #detention and the incarceration of our community,” said an #activist #protesting the facilities.
by Sophie Hurwitz, March 6, 2025
Excerpt: "Late Wednesday afternoon, private prison company CoreCivic announced it would be reopening a notorious family detention center in South Texas, under an amended contract with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The facility, first built in 2014, will house up to 2,400 people, including children. It had been shut down last year to save costs, after years of reports suggesting poor treatment, including a report of one toddler who died due to a lack of medical care.
"The reopening is part of a trend. CoreCivic isn’t the only company bringing back facilities. We are at the beginning of what looks like a private prison boom, as the groups profit off President Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportation. They are set to make billions. As the Washington Post reported, the GEO Group and CoreCivic stand to benefit in particular from #Trump’s immigration plans—the companies hold at least 16 vacant facilities that can be reopened within months for mass detention and deportation.
"The GEO Group announced in late February that it would be reopening #DelaneyHall in #NewarkNJ, as a “massive” immigration detention center with 1,000 beds. In California, ICE is considering repurposing and reopening the women’s prison #FCIDublin, closed last year due to mass #SexualAbuse, for #ImmigrantDetention. In Baldwin, Michigan, ICE and the GEO Group have expressed interest in reopening #NorthLake Correctional Facility, a former private prison shuttered in 2022. (A Biden administration order directed the Department of Justice to allow contracts with private prison groups to expire.) In #LeavenworthKS, CoreCivic looks likely to partner with ICE to reopen yet another shuttered private prison, documents obtained by the #ACLU revealed.
"As of February 27, ICE held 43,759 detainees, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonpartisan data-gathering organization. Trump is putting pressure on ICE to increase the number of arrests per day. His administration has already fired one ICE director, ostensibly for not deporting enough people.
"In the communities surrounding these new jails for migrants, activists and politicians are fighting back. In Newark, where the GEO Group stands to make $1.2 billion by reopening Delaney Hall, the immigrant rights organization Make the Road is planning a rally against the jail March 11."
#USPol #TrumpSucks #BigUglyBill #BigBeautifulBill #PrisonState #SilencingDissent #IndefiniteDetention #ICE #protesters #CoreCivic #GEOGroup #ResistICE #Resistance
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The #PrivatePrison Industry Looks Forward to Soaring Profits Thanks to #Trump’s Budget
The $45 billion for immigration #detention in the "Big, Beautiful Bill" represented a long-sought win for #PrivatePrisons.
by Matt Sledge, July 10 2025
"The private prison industry saw its influence wane under Joe Biden, but it remains dominant in the business of immigration detention. So when President Donald Trump signed the so-called 'Big, Beautiful Bill' on July 4, dedicating $45 billion to immigration detention with a goal to double or triple the population behind bars, it was a huge payoff.
"The victory was in the works for years. A private prison company handed consulting and lobbying gigs to Trump’s allies, its political action committee was the first to max out its donation to Trump, and industry executives had already made plans to reopen shuttered prisons — laying the groundwork for what they promised investors would be an incarceration bonanza.
"In the 2024 election cycle, employees and PACs affiliated with the publicly traded industry behemoths #GEOGroup and CoreCivic contributed overwhelmingly to #Republicans and Trump.
"Republicans received 92 percent of $3.7 million in contributions affiliated with GEO Group and 96 percent of the $785,000 in contributions affiliated with #CoreCivic, according to #OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research group that tracks official disclosures. When Trump won, the two companies gave $500,000 each to his #inaugural committee."
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https://theintercept.com/2025/07/10/corecivic-trump-big-beautiful-bill/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/t6cYB#USPol #TrumpSucks #BigUglyBill #BigBeautifulBill #PrisonState #SilencingDissent #IndefiniteDetention #ICE #protesters
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Taking a break before moving onto the next topic -- #PrivatePrisons ! #DoublePlusUngood!
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This is a critical article to read and for us to all understand [Just Security]: Private Prison Companies’ Enormous Windfall: Who Stands to Gain as ICE Expands By Lauren-Brooke Eisen, September 24, 2025
https://www.justsecurity.org/121226/private-prison-companies-gain-ice-expands/
#privateprisons #immigration #geoGroup #CoreCivic #policeState
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The #PrivatePrison Industry Looks Forward to Soaring Profits Thanks to #Trump’s Budget
The $45 billion for #ImmigrationDetention in the "#BigBeautifulBill" represented a long-sought win for private prisons.
Matt Sledge, July 10 2025
Excerpt: "In the 2024 election cycle, employees and PACs affiliated with the publicly traded industry behemoths GEO Group and #CoreCivic contributed overwhelmingly to Republicans and Trump.
"Republicans received 92 percent of $3.7 million in contributions affiliated with GEO Group and 96 percent of the $785,000 in contributions affiliated with CoreCivic, according to #OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research group that tracks official disclosures. When Trump won, the two companies gave $500,000 each to his inaugural committee.
Even though the industry kept profiting from the Biden administration — despite a supposed ban on private prisons — one advocate said it was clear to her why companies went all-in on Trump."
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https://theintercept.com/2025/07/10/corecivic-trump-big-beautiful-bill/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/t6cYB#USPol #ICERaids #ICEKidnapping #MassDeportations #GatorGitmo #AlligatorAlcatraz #GeoGroup #TomHolman #PrivatePrisonIndustry #IndefiniteDetention #Fascism #Authoritarianism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #IndefiniteDetentionClause
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#YourTaxDollarsAtWork : #California state prison site in #KernCounty is being converted into the state’s largest #immigration #detention center under a new contract between #ICE and #PrivatePrison operator #CoreCivic. 2,560-bed facility expands ICE carceral capacity in immigrant heavy state by 36%.
Since being shuttered by #GovNewsom as a state penal facility in 2024, remote #CaliforniaCity officials had bemoaned losing the jobs and $1 million per year in revenues from #sewage and water services.
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#ICE is using no-bid contracts, boosting big firms, to get more detention beds
by HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and JOHN HANNA
June 16, 2025
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — "#Leavenworth, #Kansas, occupies a mythic space in American crime, its name alone evoking a short hand for serving hard time. The federal penitentiary housed gangsters Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly — in a building so storied that it inspired the term 'the big house.'
"Now Kansas’ oldest city could soon be detaining far less famous people, #migrants swept up in President Donald #Trump’s promise of #MassDeportations of those living in the U.S. illegally.
"The federal government has signed a deal with the #PrivatePrison firm #CoreCivic Corp. to reopen a 1,033-bed prison in Leavenworth as part of a surge of contracts U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has issued without seeking competitive bids.
"ICE has cited a 'compelling urgency' for thousands more detention beds, and its efforts have sent profit estimates soaring for politically connected private companies, including CoreCivic, based in the Nashville, Tennessee, area and another giant firm, The #GeoGroup Inc., headquartered in southern Florida."
#ResistICE #ResistFascism
#USPol #ACAB #ICERaids #FuckICE #Authoritarianism -
Tiefer, who served on an independent commission established to study government contracting for the Iraq & Afghanistan wars, said #ICE is “placing a very dicey long-term bet” because of its past problems & said ICE is giving #CoreCivic “the keys to the #treasury” without competition.
#Trump #law #immigration #HumanRights #PrivatePrison #GovernmentSpending #Republicans
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#GeoGroup’s former lobbyist #PamBondi is now the US AG. It anticipates that all of its idle #prisons will be activated this year, its executive chair, George Zoley, told shareholders.
#CoreCivic, which along w/Geo donated millions of dollars to #GOP candidates at all levels of government & national political groups, is equally optimistic. It began daily talks w/the #Trump admin immediately after the election….
#law #immigration #HumanRights #PrivatePrison #GovernmentSpending #Republicans #ICE
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…#PrivatePrison executives are forecasting hundreds of millions of dollars in new #ICE #profits. Since #Trump’s reelection in Nov, #CoreCivic’s #stock has risen in price by 56% & #GeoGroup’s by 73%.
“It’s the gold rush,” Michael A. Hallett, a professor of criminal #justice at the University of North Florida who studies #PrivatePrisons. “All of a sudden, demand is spiraling. And when you’re the only provider that can meet demand, you can pretty much set your terms.”
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The city’s lawsuit described detainees locked in showers as punishment. It said that sheets & towels from the facility clogged up the #wastewater system & that #CoreCivic impeded the #city #police force’s ability to investigate #SexualAssault & other #violent #crimes.
The facility had no inmates when CoreCivic gave reporters a tour earlier this year, & it looked scrubbed top to bottom & the smell of disinfectant hung in the air.
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When #Leavenworth sued #CoreCivic, it opened its lawsuit with a quote from U.S. District Court Judge Julie Robinson — an appointee of President George W. Bush, a #Republican — who said of the #prison: “The only way I could describe it frankly, what’s going on at CoreCivic right now is it’s an absolute hell hole.”
#Trump #law #immigration #HumanRights #PrivatePrison #GovernmentSpending #Republicans #ICE
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Vacancies among correctional officers were as high as 23%, according to a #DOJ report from 2017.
“It was just mayhem,” recalled William Rogers, who worked as a guard at the #CoreCivic facility in #Leavenworth from 2016 through 2020. He said repeated assaults sent him to the emergency room three times, including once after a blow to the head that required 14 staples.
#Trump #law #immigration #HumanRights #PrivatePrison #GovernmentSpending #Republicans #ICE
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#Leavenworth sued the #CoreCivic to force it to get one, & a state-court judge issued an order requiring it earlier this month.
An attorney for the city, Joe Hatley, said the #legal fight indicates how much ill will CoreCivic generated when it held #criminal suspects there for trials in federal court for the #USMarshals Service.
#Trump #PrivatePrison #law #immigration #GovernmentSpending #Republicans #ICE #HumanRights
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The #Leavenworth area’s #politics might have been expected to help #CoreCivic. #Trump carried its county by more than 20 percentage points in each of his 3 campaigns for president.
But skeptical #city officials argue that CoreCivic needs a special use permit to reopen its facility. CoreCivic disagrees, saying that it doesn’t because it never abandoned the facility & that the permitting process would take too long.
#PrivatePrison #law #immigration #GovernmentSpending #Republicans #ICE
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…#CoreCivic’s #Leavenworth facility quickly became a priority for #ICE & the company because of its central location. Leavenworth, w/ 37,000 residents, is only 10 miles (16 kilometers) to the west of the #KansasCity International Airport. The facility would hold #men & #women & is within ICE’s area of operations for the #Democratic #SanctuaryCity #Chicago, 420 miles (676 kilometers) to the northeast.
#Trump #PrivatePrison #law #immigration #GovernmentSpending #Republicans #HumanRights