Tag: private prisons

New standards allow broader AI use, lock in $1-a-day labor limits, and give detention operators more flexibility as ICE expands under Trump’s mass enforcement agenda.

Sen. Andy Kim says federal agents used pepper spray and less-lethal rounds outside a New Jersey detention center where hundreds of migrants are protesting alleged medical neglect, inadequate food, and poor treatment inside a privately operated ICE facility.

Corporate interests dominate immigration policy under new legislation.

"If we stand together, we can eliminate private prisons and detention centers. No more profiteering from locking people up."

Without these institutions, The GEO Group and CoreCivic would be in trouble—which is what advocates for divestment want.

We must put an end to this shameful vestige of our country’s worst deeds.

The Department of Homeland Security looks to reopen facilities the Justice Department will no longer contract with.

Homeland Security will review the use of private prisons for immigrant detention.

This an opportunity to renew our understanding of the social compact. It allows us to emphasize the value of communitarian idealism over individualistic greed.

The DOJ’s announcement is certainly not a knock-out blow for private prison firms. But it's a start.