ICE blocked from re-detaining immigrants freed from two California facilities due to pandemic

Detained immigrants and their advocates scored a major court victory this week, reaching a “groundbreaking” settlement in a lawsuit filed nearly two years ago over unsafe pandemic conditions.

Under an …

Nearly 1,000 faith leaders and immigration groups urge Biden 'to reverse course' on ICE detention

Nearly 1,000 faith leaders and immigrant rights groups are calling on the Biden administration to halt its expansion of the immigration detention system, writing they “are disturbed by several recent …

Majority of voters want Biden admin to stop pursuing new private immigration detention contracts

New polling finds that an overwhelming number of voters oppose the Biden administration’s expansion of private immigration detention contracts. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and …

Court rejects GEO Group’s effort to reduce settlement won by immigrants forced to work for $1 a day

There are few greater pleasures in life than watching GEO Group continue to lose in court. The private prison profiteer had sought to greatly reduce, and even throw out, the millions of dollars a …

Here's just how much private prison profiteers sunk into the 2020 election

A researcher from The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University has published data at LA Progressive Newsletter detailing the vast sums of cash that private prison …

California attorney general seeks rehearing following ruling against state's ban on private prisons

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is seeking to return to court to defend a historic state law state banning private for-profit prisons after a three-judge panel from the 9th Circuit Court of …

Private prison profiteer GEO Group has another bad day in court, and that's a good thing

Private prison profiteer GEO Group has had yet another bad day in court. U.S. District Judge Robert Bryan ruled it must pay the state of Washington nearly $6 million “in unjust enrichment gained” …

Man jailed in solitary for over a year is first to sue private prison company under recent state law

A man who was swept up by federal immigration officials and jailed in solitary confinement for more than a year has sued, stating in his complaint that the private prison where he was detained …

DHS watchdog confirms detained immigrants had to sign liability form in order to get face masks

California’s Otay Mesa Detention Facility, a privately operated immigration prison where the first detained immigrant to die from COVID-19 had been held, has failed yet another unannounced inspection. …

Conservative judges overturn California's ban on private prisons—with an assist from the Biden admin

The immigrant rights movement both in California and across the country won a truly historic victory back in 2019, when the state passed a law banning private, for-profit prisons. That included …

Attorney 'can’t say for certain' if ICE retaliated against detainees, but it sure damn looks like it

Did federal immigration officials needlessly transfer a number of immigrants as retaliation for speaking out against inhumane and unsafe conditions at multiple California detention facilities? Centro …

ICE and private prison company GEO Group continue to endanger immigrants through use of pesticides

Both private prison profiteer GEO Group and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continue to endanger the lives of detained immigrants through the irresponsible use of pesticides. The Counter …

ICE continues to refuse to release detainees until they're dying, ACLU report shows

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) already has a history of refusing to release severely ill immigrants, including children, until they are dying. When 2-year-old Mariee got sick while detained …