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#DetentionCenters for dissenters!
#PrivatePrison company sells two of California’s immigrant detention centers to the feds
By WENDY FRY and NIGEL DUARA/CalMatters
Updated 8:14 PM UTC, July 7, 2026"The private prison company #CoreCivic has sold two of the largest immigration detention facilities in California to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in a deal worth $1.5 billion, the company announced Monday.
"CoreCivic said it anticipates that the sale of the #OtayMesa Detention Center in San Diego County and the California City Detention Facility in Kern County will bring the company an estimated net proceeds of approximately $1.1 billion.
The sale closed on July 2, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, with the federal government paying $739.2 million for the 1,994-bed Otay Mesa facility and $732.6 million for the newly-opened 2,560-bed California City facility."CoreCivic said in a news release that it expects to continue running the day-to-day operations of both facilities under existing management contracts with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The company acknowledged in its filing that the terms of those contracts could be renegotiated now that the federal government owns both properties outright.
"They also might not be renewed. CoreCivic’s contract in California City contract runs through August 2027, and its Otay Mesa contract is in effect through December 2029, with an option to extend for five more years.
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"The Department of Homeland Security’s purchasing program surprised local officials in at least five states, who only learned of the purchases and their purpose after the deals closed. Some of those projects have run into legal challenges, according to the New York Times, though the agency appears to be moving forward with four warehouse acquisitions."
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Greta Thunberg's call to action for folks in the EU:
The EU is building something they don't want you to know about. Across the US, ICE is shooting people, disappearing people and tearing families apart. Here in Europe, they're taking notes and they want to do the same thing in your city. This is part of an EU-wide deportation plan. European governments and institutions are pushing through a new law which the far right have celebrated as the start of the era of deportations. Europe claims to be founded on values of democracy, rule of law, and human rights. So where are those values now? Under the new law, countries could build deportation prisons far outside of Europe, out of sight, out of mind. This is nothing new. European governments have always tried to avoid the consequences of their actions. Their colonial empires extracted wealth from across the world. Rubber from Congo, cotton from India, gold from West Africa where, while, violence and famine were kept far from Europe's borders. Now European-made weapons are found at sites of mass violence in Sudan. EU countries supply components for Israeli arms as the genocide in Palestine rages on and European diplomats sit down in Brussels with the Taliban to negotiate deportation deals. They fuel the wars and climate catastrophes people run from, then build the prisons waiting for them when they arrive. And in the end who benefits from that? People facing rising living costs, crumbling healthcare systems, or under public... underfunded public services? No. The people who profit are private security companies, detention contractors, surveillance firms and deportation airline owners. This is the hidden reality. Public money is being directed away from housing, schools, and healthcare as powerful politicians cut deals with wealthy CEOs, turning deportation into an ever-expanding industry. This is not a fight between people with papers and people without. It's a fight between the people who believe human rights belong to everyone and politicians and corporations gaining power and profit from taking them away. Together we can create a Europe where nobody fears a knock at the doors that may take them away from their home forever, and where everybody is safe and can thrive. This future is ours take. It will be decided by what we refuse to accept. The European Parliament will vote on this law the next week. It's happening quickly and quietly before people understand what is being built. This is our moment to refuse it. Refuse outsourced prisons, refuse far right policy, refuse a Europe governed by fear. Call your MP, write to your government, tag your ministers in the comments, and let them know that this won't keep us safe. We keep us safe.
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"Free the captives
Fire to the cages
Make sure they can''t build again..."#KleeBenally, Dec 22, 2017
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAo1b2JqHwU#CapitalismIsTheEnemyOfMotherEarth #CapitalismIsTheEnemy #IndigenousAction #FridayNightMusicVideos
#MusicForTheResistance #RestInPowerKleeBenally
#RIPKleeBenally #DetentionCenters #PrivatePrison #PrisonersOfWar #NoOneIsIllegalOnStolenLand
#Resist #DefundICE #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #NativeAmericanActivists
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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."
Read more:
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
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/dilley-detention-jasmine-crockett-joaquin-castro/ -
#ICE Hires Immigrant #BountyHunters From #PrivatePrison Company #GEOGroup
#BIIncorporated, a subsidiary of for-profit prison company GEO Group, will help ICE pinpoint the locations of #immigrants.
by Sam Biddle, December 19 2025
Excerpt: "The deal illustrates a strategy of vertical integration within GEO Group, which has found a growing line of business operating for-profit immigration detention centers under the second #Trump administration. In this case, the corporation stands to be paid by the federal government to both find immigrants and then to imprison them.
"Shares of GEO Group, which donated to both Trump’s reelection campaign and his inaugural fund, spiked following his 2024 victory. Trump’s return to office has proven fortuitous for GEO Group: The president’s '#BigBeautifulBill' earmarked $45 billion for jailing immigrants. 'This is a unique moment in our company’s history,' GEO Group CEO J. David Donahue told investors in May, 'and we believe we are well-positioned to meet this unprecedented opportunity.'
"GEO Group has faced decades of criticism over alleged mismanagement of its facilities and claims of rampant abuse of inmates. In August, The Intercept reported the suicide of a Chinese immigrant held at a GEO Group-operated prison in Pennsylvania. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal complaint over the facility in July, criticizing 'horrific conditions' at the prison, including repeated instances of medical neglect.
"In 2023, GEO Group was hit by a class-action lawsuit alleging the 'months-long poisoning' from a chemical disinfectant of more than 1,300 inmates at a California immigration detention center. In May, Tufts University student #RümeysaÖztürk, jailed for her criticism of the Israeli #genocide in #Gaza, alleged her GEO Group-managed jail delayed treatment while she experienced an asthma attack."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/19/ice-bounty-hunters-location-surveillance-geo-group/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/xG60J#USPol #HumanRightsAbuses #ICESucks #Authoritarianism #Grifters #ForProfitPrisons #ShadyDeals
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@novara_unofficial saying with a straight face while their police and prison system lied about calling an ambulance for a dying hunger striker and David Lammy the only person wtih authority to overrule refused to intervene
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/12/17/zarah-sultana-hunger-strike-prisoner/
#HMPBronzefield #ZarahSultana #HungerStrike #DavidLammy #Israel #UnitedKingdom #DefendOurJuries #QesserZuhrah #PrivatePrison #DirectAction #OccupationProtest
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If prisoners do not have rights you do not have rights.
It took occupying the private prison building[2] and Zarah Sultana personally taking part in the protest[3] until the ambulance came[3] to get a dying women[1] on hunger strike an ambulance, prison staff were stonewalling doctors [1]
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Qesser Zuhrah is taken to hospital after crowds gathered at HMP Bronzefield following her rapid health deterioration after 46days of hunger strike.
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[3]MP Zarah Sultana had refused to leave the site until an ambulance arrived, with crowds forming over 12hrs of protest before an Ambulance arrived.
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSXFZxzDCG9[3]
https://www.instagram.com/defendourjuries/reel/DSXiTbajfsw/#HMPBronzefield #ZarahSultana #HungerStrike #DavidLammy #Israel #UnitedKingdom #DefendOurJuries #QesserZuhrah #PrivatePrison #DirectAction #OccupationProtest
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“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.' "
Read more:
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.' "
Read more:
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."
Read more:
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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Because, #PrivatePrison industry doesn't want that!
Federal Bureau of Prisons moves to end union protections for its workers
By MICHAEL R. SISAK
Updated 10:52 PM EDT, September 25, 2025Excerpt: "The union’s president, Brandy Moore-White, said ending the collective bargaining agreement, which was supposed to run through May 2029, will jeopardize the safety and livelihoods of workers who endure dangerous conditions to keep inmates, staff and communities safe."
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The annual budget of #ICE alone will spike from about $8 billion to roughly $28 billion, making it the highest funded law enforcement agency in the federal government.
The new resources will fuel an intense initiative to recruit as many as 10k new agents who will have a presence in cities like NYC & Los Angeles, & throughout the US. And the money comes as a windfall for #PrivatePrison companies, who have already rushed to pitch the admin on new contracts to run facilities.
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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."
Read more:
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