Post AvMD7ezBq9UXuDsgb2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
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(DIR) Post #AvMC7qB28GSoeywWP2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-21T13:52:00Z
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#ICE is using no-bid contracts, boosting big #PrivatePrison firms, to get more #detention beds#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 & Machine Gun Kelly — in a building so storied that it inspired the term “the big house.”#immigration #law #GovernmentSpending #Trump #Republicans https://apnews.com/article/immigration-detention-centers-ice-deportations-trump-e92b67a388f041b84593d7a29fd93c54?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-06-21-One+Must-Read
(DIR) Post #AvMCBlwboLuEgu4RnM by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-21T13:52:44Z
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Now #Kansas’ oldest city could soon be detaining far less famous people, migrants swept up in #Trump’s promise of #MassDeportations of those living in the US [some] illegally.The federal govt has signed a deal w/ the #PrivatePrison firm #CoreCivic Corp. to reopen a 1,033-bed #prison in #Leavenworth as part of a surge of contracts #ICE has issued without seeking competitive bids.#immigration #law #GovernmentSpending #Trump #Republicans
(DIR) Post #AvMCEFJba8D8MX0TNg by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-21T13:53:11Z
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#ICE cited a “compelling urgency” for thousands more detention beds, & its efforts have sent #profit estimates soaring for politically connected private companies, including CoreCivic, based in the #Nashville, #Tennessee, area & another giant firm, The #GeoGroup Inc., headquartered in southern #Florida.#immigration #law #GovernmentSpending #Trump #Republicans
(DIR) Post #AvMCP5bE2rb1PmQ28u by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-21T13:55:09Z
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That push faces resistance. #Leavenworth filed a lawsuit against #CoreCivic after it tried to reopen without #local city officials signing off on the deal, quoting a #federal judge’s past description of the now-shuttered #prison as “a hell hole.” The case in Leavenworth serves as another test of the limits of #Trump’s unusually aggressive tactics to force #immigrant removals.#immigration #law #GovernmentSpending #Republicans #ICE #HumanRights
(DIR) Post #AvMCXGTHVXUZRxbLeK by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-21T13:56:37Z
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To get more #detention beds, the #Trump admin has modified dozens of existing agreements with contractors & used no-bid contracts. One pays $73 million to a company led by former federal #immigration officials for “immigration enforcement support teams” to handle administrative tasks, such as helping coordinate removals, triaging complaints or telling #ICE if someone is a risk to community safety.#PrivatePrison #law #GovernmentSpending #Republicans #ICE #HumanRights
(DIR) Post #AvMCiT2j6gCvcrWSFU by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-21T13:58:39Z
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Just last week , #GeoGroup announced tha #ICE modified a contract for an existing #detention center in southeastern #Georgia so that the company could reopen an idle prison on adjacent land to hold 1,868 #immigrants — & earn $66 million in annual revenue.“Never in our 42-year company history have we had so much activity & demand for our services as we are seeing right now,” said #CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger during an earnings call last month with shareholders.#Trump #PrivatePrison #law
(DIR) Post #AvMD0C5urMlWH0T1Ie by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-21T14:01:51Z
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A tax-cutting and budget reconciliation measure approved last month by the #House includes $45 Billion over 4 years for #immigrant #detention, a threefold spending increase. The #Senate is now considering that #legislation.When #Trump started his 2nd term in Jan, #CoreCivic & #GeoGroup had around 20 idle facilities, partly because of sentencing #reforms that reduced #prison populations.#PrivatePrison #law #immigration #GovernmentSpending #Republicans #ICE #HumanRights
(DIR) Post #AvMD7ezBq9UXuDsgb2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-21T14:03:12Z
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But the #Trump admin wants to more than double the existing 41k beds for detaining #immigrants to at least 100k beds & — if #PrivatePrison executives’ predictions are accurate — possibly to >150k.#ICE declared a national *emergency* on the US border w/ #Mexico as part of its justification for authorizing nine 5-year contracts for a combined 10,312 beds without “Full & Open Competition.” #law #immigration #GovernmentSpending #Republicans #HumanRights
(DIR) Post #AvMDKLcj8k93cSQMLY by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-21T14:05:29Z
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Only 3 of the 9 potential facilities were listed in #ICE’s document: #Leavenworth, a 2,560-bed #CoreCivic-owned facility in #California City, CA, & an 1,800-bed #GeoGroup owned prison in Baldwin, #Michigan.The agreement for the Leavenworth facility hasn’t been released, nor have documents for the other 2 sites. CoreCivic & Geo Group ofcls said last month on earnings calls that ICE used what are known as letter contracts, meant to speed things up when time is critical.#Trump #law #immigration
(DIR) Post #AvMDYZAtYPx1hYBaPw by annietime@sfba.social
2025-06-21T14:08:00Z
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@Nonilex@masto.ICE is the national emergency. Stephen Miller gets his wet dream of terror.
(DIR) Post #AvMDagkYMRJPm4sPgW by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-21T14:08:27Z
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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 #SanctuaryCity #Chicago, 420 miles (676 kilometers) to the northeast.#Trump #PrivatePrison #law #immigration #GovernmentSpending #Republicans #HumanRights
(DIR) Post #AvMDu9osVKwxR1BPV2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-21T14:11:57Z
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“That would mean that people targeted in the #Chicago area & in #Illinois would end up going to this facility down in #Kansas,” said Jesse Franzblau, a senior policy analyst for the National #Immigrant #Justice Center.#Prisons have long been an important part of #Leavenworth’s #economy, employing hundreds of workers to guard prisoners held in 2 #military facilities, the nation’s first #FederalPenitentiary, a Kansas #correctional facility & a county #jail within 6 miles of city hall.#law
(DIR) Post #AvME7hNH3lyzGejE5w by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-21T14:14:25Z
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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
(DIR) Post #AvMEFu5pejTB1xTz4i by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-21T14:15:54Z
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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
(DIR) Post #AvMER39yHoMQKtjXxg by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-21T14:17:54Z
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In late 2021, #CoreCivic stopped housing pretrial detainees in its #Leavenworth facility after President #Biden, a #Democrat, called on the #DOJ to curb the use of #PrivatePrisons. In the months before the closure, the #ACLU & federal public defenders detailed stabbings, suicides, a homicide & inmate rights violations in a letter to the White House. CoreCivic responded at the time that the claims were “false & defamatory.”#Trump #law #immigration #HumanRights #GovernmentSpending #Republicans
(DIR) Post #AvMEbMzTPYEwjfkCS8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-21T14:19:46Z
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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
(DIR) Post #AvMEjzizHZwNBT95X6 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-21T14:21:19Z
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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
(DIR) Post #AvMEyE8gUEZ3wZx42S by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-21T14:23:54Z
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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.#Trump #law #immigration #HumanRights #PrivatePrison #ICE
(DIR) Post #AvMFIhkq5S6PaOYxBw by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-21T14:27:36Z
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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.”#law #GovernmentSpending
(DIR) Post #AvMFX8H0Ht1vt2UGRc by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-21T14:30:11Z
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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
(DIR) Post #AvMFi5dqPbkauVOaoa by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-21T14:32:02Z
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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
(DIR) Post #AvMJEfXMmwvjMqamCu by zombiewarrior@techhub.social
2025-06-21T15:11:40Z
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@Nonilex the point is just the name tho isnt itleavenworthalcatraz"look everyone i'm being racist! it's cruel! it's unusual!"
(DIR) Post #AvMJQawlgHLkbd9zto by zombiewarrior@techhub.social
2025-06-21T15:13:49Z
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@Nonilex old buildings were designed entirely differently for large amounts of correctional officers compared to modern staffing levelsdumb idea to keep the place open that long, tear it the hell down and build something saneoh or better yet, build nothing and stop arresting people
(DIR) Post #AvNDZqDvqWeE1eArq4 by Bluezcrab496@mastodon.social
2025-06-22T01:42:41Z
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@Nonilex GEO Group located in Boca Raton, Fla off Yamato Road