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Washington state says Geo Group refuses to let health inspectors into detention facility

Washington state has asked a federal judge to force private prison operator The Geo Group to allow health inspectors into its for-profit immigration detention center in Tacoma, which has been the subject of thousands of complaints from detainees in recent years

The Independent UK

GEO Group: High-Risk Stock With High-Reward Potential

GEO Group stock is down nearly 50%, but analysts see over 100% upside. Here’s the bull and bear case, policy risks, and what investors should know now

MarketBeat

Family of ‘perfectly healthy’ asylum-seeker who died in ICE custody demand answers: ‘His story cannot end here’

Exclusive details: Jean Wilson Brutus’s relatives only learned he had even been taken into ICE custody was when they received notification of his death, family attorney Oliver Barry told The Independent

The Independent UK

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ICE Detainee Dies in El Paso Detention Facilities, What are the Living Conditions There?

Following the death of a third detainee in El Paso, scrutiny turns to a new tent facility at Fort Bliss. Critics fear extreme heat and secrecy will lead to further tragedy.

International Business Times UK

Dim days, bright nights: a hidden cruelty of Ice detention

Tens of thousands of people held across the US amid Trump’s immigration crackdown could face an insidious hazard: broken internal clocks

The Guardian - US

Prison chaplain at ICE facility in Pennsylvania accused of sexually abusing immigration detainee

Exclusive: “The system absolutely failed our client,” attorney Trina Realmuto told The Independent

The Independent UK

Private Prison Giant Ordered to Pay Tens Of Millions for Paying Immigrant Detainees $1 a Day For Work

A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that The GEO Group must pay more than $23 million for paying working immigrant detainees at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma as little as $1 per day.

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Trump’s tax bill funds $6bn expansion of US-Mexico border surveillance, report finds

‘The spending is not about safety’: rights groups concerned as funding for data centralization increases

The Guardian - US

Migrants upset by quality of meals rebel inside NJ detention facility and four escape amid massive police response

Unrest stemmed from concerns about the punctuality and quality of meals

The Independent UK

‘Malicious’: New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka sues US attorney after arrest

Baraka, a candidate for New Jersey’s governor race, has condemned members of Trump administration for ‘false arrest’.

Al Jazeera

Supreme Court to hear private prison company appeal in suit over immigration detainee $1-a-day wages

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from a private prison company facing a lawsuit claiming immigration detainees were forced to work and paid a $1 a day in Colorado

The Independent UK

Private security at ICE jail in Texas accused of choking a handcuffed detainee

Criminal complaint states officer put enough force on detainee’s throat that he ‘tucked his chin down to his chest because he was gasping for air’

The Independent UK

ICE seized the mayor — his city united

Masked, armed federal agents arrested the mayor of Newark for doing his job — and citizens said no

Salon

Trump Admin Using Tech From Largest Private Prison Operator To Track Down Hundreds Of Migrants

A new analysis by The New York Times showed that the government has increased contracts with the Geo Group as it slashes spending across agencies.

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The Guardian - US

‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish

Foreign nationals caught up in Trump’s immigration dragnet are transported sometimes thousands of miles away to an isolated network of lockups and courts

The Guardian - US

Ice contractor plans for surveillance boom under Trump migrant crackdown

Geo Group, an Ice partner, is moving at ‘unprecedented speed’ to build out its monitoring, executive chair says

Roll Call

Trump's attorney general pick must navigate lobbying background - Roll Call

Pam Bondi, the former Florida attorney general, will likely have to carefully navigate a slew of potential conflicts of interests.

Al Jazeera

Private contractors in US eye windfall from Trump’s push to deport migrants

Trump’s pledge to pursue ‘mass deportation’ is likely to increase demand for detention facilities and surveillance.

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The Independent UK

Surveillance tech advances by Biden could aid in Trump's promised crackdown on immigration

President-elect Donald Trump will return to power next year with a raft of technological tools at his disposal that would help deliver his campaign promise of cracking down on immigration — among them, surveillance and artificial intelligence technology that the Biden administration already uses to help make crucial decisions in…

The Guardian - US

Ice could add 600 beds to New Jersey detention center, documents show

ACLU obtains documents showing agency’s effort to expand state’s detention capacity for undocumented immigrants

Latin Times

Private Prison Stocks Soar Further After Trump Confirms Deportation Hawk Tom Homan as 'Border Czar'

Shares of The Geo Group and CoreCivic jumped on expectations of ramped-up detention and deportation efforts under Trump's new administration

The Guardian - US

More than 60 Ice detainees on hunger strike over ‘inhumane’ living conditions

People at two Geo Group facilities in California protest poor food quality, medical neglect and a working wage of $1 a day

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Two Inmates Dead In Oklahoma Prison Disturbance

Tragedy at Lawton Correctional Facility in Oklahoma leads to deaths and injuries during a group disturbance. Investigation ongoing.

The Denver Post

Immigrants at Colo. detention center face excessive solitary confinement, advocacy groups allege

DENVER -- Immigration advocacy groups allege abuse of solitary confinement and discrimination against people with disabilities at the Aurora, Colorado, immigration detention center in a complaint submitted Thursday to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s oversight entities.

Los Angeles Times

California tried and failed to ban for-profit ICE detention centers. What does that mean for other states?

WASHINGTON, D.C. — California's landmark ban on private prisons and immigrant detention facilities saw its fate sealed when a federal court officially repealed the 2020 law.

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