Will the Supreme Court Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity?
A private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.https://murica.website/2025/10/will-the-supreme-court-hand-government-contractors-blanket-immunity/
. Private prison owners maxed out campaign contributions to Trump Now they are making billions of dollars off building ICE detention centers. Always follow the money. #ICE #PrivatePrisons #Trump #Republicans #GEOgroup #CoreCivic .
. The same people that own private prisons Are the ones building the ICE detention centers This is the Civil War all over again, slave owners, wanting free labor, but pretending it’s about southern values. It’s always about money. #ICE #PrivatePrisons #GEOgroup #CoreCivic .
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/115350902465658297
Anne Frank died of a communicable disease due to overcrowding and poor sanitation.
These are concentration camps, and while they aren't letting us see inside, we *know* what crimes against humanity are being done in our name with our taxpayer money.
#CoreCivic #GeoGroup #Crime #ConcentrationCamps
New Jersey Lawmakers Condemn “Inhumane” Conditions for Visitors to ICE Jail
In September, visitors were forced to wait outside during thunderstorms, that included torrential rain and lightning.Has #ICE renewed #TacomaWA #DetentionCenter contract? It won’t say
By Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks, Sep. 25, 2025
Excerpt: "The 10-year contract for the private company operating the #NorthwestICEProcessingCenter in Tacoma is set to end this month, but secrecy shrouds whether it’s been extended.
"#Immigration advocates and legal experts have heavily criticized the lack of transparency over the expected renewal of the contract between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and #GEOGroup, which owns and manages the 1,575-bed, jail-like facility.
"Neither GEO Group nor ICE officials have released information about a new contract for running the detention center. The current contract, inked in 2015 as a one-year contract with an option to renew each year for nine years, is set to expire Sept. 27. The contract awarded GEO Group a minimum of $700 million over 10 years.
" 'It not only puts a veil over people’s eyes, but also prevents people inside the detention center from knowing what the future of this detention center is going to be,' said Josefina Mora-Cheung, director of organizing at #LaResistencia a local #activist group advocating for the end of #MassDeportations and the closure of detention centers.
"GEO Group and ICE officials did not answer emailed questions about whether a new contract was signed or whether the existing contract has been extended. Officials did not respond to reporters’ requests to provide copies of the new contract, should it exist.
" 'We cannot confirm pre-decisional contract selections, but we can confirm that ICE is exploring all options to meet its current requirements,' said ICE spokesperson Chrissy Cuttita in an email Tuesday."
#USPol #DetentionCenters
#ICEDetainees #ICESucks #PrivatePrisons #PrisonState #IndefiniteDetention #WashingtonState
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
#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
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 #TrumpSuck #BigUglyBill #BigBeautifulBill #PrisonState #SilencingDissent #IndefiniteDetention #ICE #protesters
Taking a break before moving onto the next topic -- #PrivatePrisons ! #DoublePlusUngood!
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
Bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour”
https://jacobin.com/2025/09/immigrants-trump-coerced-prison-labor
#Capitalism #exploitation #incarceratedworkers #GEOGroup, #Palantir #CoreCivic
#migrantworkers #minimumwage #workingpoor
Meet the Billionaire Oligarchs Enabling Trump’s Deportation Machine
A primer on the billionaire barons and corporate leaders profiting off ICE’s escalated assault on immigrants.https://murica.website/2025/09/meet-the-billionaire-oligarchs-enabling-trumps-deportation-machine/
Moshannon ICE Protest in Rural PA Coal Town Opens Eyes
> ...Phillipsburg, PA, [is] an old coal mining town in Central PA. The coal mines have closed, and the town's largest employer is ICE's Moshannon Valley Processing Center, operated by the private prison contractor GEO Group.
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> The Moshannon Valley Processing Center is the largest ICE facility in the northeastern United States and is considered one of the most inhumane.
https://paydayreport.com/moshannon-ice-protest-in-rural-pa-coal-town-opens-eyes/
#ICE Immigration and Customs Enforcement $1.2 Billion detention center at #FortBliss in #ElPaso, to hold 5,000 detainees; the largest federal detention center in U.S. history. Japanese American advocates, however, say that the facility, which once imprisoned people considered “enemy aliens,” is a chilling reminder of a dark past.
#Palantir #GeoGroup #CoreCivic seeing record #profits as they expand #contracts w #ICE. Palantir building a $30M ICE #database to accelerate #deportations, while private prison firms boast of “unprecedented growth” in #detention capacity, including exploring sites on #US #military bases. #trump #immigration machine imassive #profit center for #tech #prison #contractors, embedding corporate incentives in2 expansion of detention, #surveillance. #Immigrants are the test case https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/10/trump-immigration-companies-profit
Migranten in ICE-detentiecentra zoals Alligator Alcatraz worden gedwongen tot arbeid die lijkt op slavernij. Ze ontvangen $1 per dag voor 8 uur 'vrijwillig' werk: schoonmaken, koken, repareren.
Commerciële 'pro-Trump' bedrijven profiteren van deze goedkope arbeid, terwijl de migranten $11 moeten betalen voor een tube tandpasta. Wie weigert te werken, riskeert eenzame opsluiting.
#ICE #Slavernij #Migration #GEOgroup #CoreCivic
📹 https://www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/comments/1mpv826/slavery_by_any_other_name/
"On GEO's unprecedented opportunities"
by @footnoted
Melvin Bulauan died less than a month after being admitted to the #GeoGroup facility at 111 Taylor Street in San Francisco. https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/sf-death-sparks-investigation-geo-group-tenderloin/
