Financiers Of For-Profit Prisons Targeted With ‘Rolling Picket’ Organized By Anti-ICE Activists
Activists in New York organized “rolling picket” and targeted financiers of for-profit prisons, like CoreCivic and GEO Group, that hold detained immigrants.
Elizabeth Warren’s Flawed But Well-Intentioned Proposal For Banning Private Prisons
Elizabeth Warren’s strategy appears to prioritize issues of privatization in prisons instead of seeing where issue fits into larger issue of incarceration.
Cibola Immigration Detention Facility Is Trump Administration’s Model For Isolating Refugees
Christopher, a young Congolese asylum seeker, was detained at the Cibola County Correctional Center, which is a prison in rural New Mexico operated by CoreCivic. He endured health issues, experienced isolation because he doesn’t speak a commonly spoken language, struggled to find a lawyer, and had his asylum application denied
Supreme Court Rules Against Private Prison Corporations’ Push For Secrecy
The Supreme Court ruled against GEO Group and CCA, which sought to block the release of records related to their government contracts.
The Neoliberal Record Of Kamala Harris: Reckon With It Instead Of Attacking Critics
Senator Kamala Harris is seen as the Democrats’ “rising star,” a certain candidate for 2020 presidential run. But that doesn’t excuse her neoliberal record.
Immigrants In Georgia Detention Centers Put In Solitary For Hunger Strikes, Demanding Medical Treatment
Georgia immigrant detention centers frequently put asylum seekers and other migrants into solitary confinement as punishment for going on hunger strike.
Trump Executive Orders Expand Mass Incarceration Of Immigrants
President Donald Trump issued two executive orders on January 25 that will most likely contribute to the mass incarceration of immigrants in the United States. One, titled Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements, is best known for its provisions to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico. But it
Bureau Of Prisons Renews Private Prison Contract In Georgia
The federal Bureau of Prisons is extending its two year contract for the D. Ray James Correctional Facility, a Geo Group-operated private prison.
In States Like Tennessee, Private Prisons Will Survive Obama Administration
Madison Deal died at a CCA prison in Tennessee as news broke that the Justice Department would draw-down its agreements with private prison contractors.
Obama Administration Isn’t Planning To End Private Prison Contracts
In a memorandum sent to the Bureau of Prisons, the Department of Justice announced it would begin “reducing and ultimately ending” the use of private prisons.