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 …

San Diego's wretched Otay Mesa immigration prison is seeing near-record COVID-19 cases

When it comes to COVID-19, private prison profiteer CoreCivic’s San Diego immigration prison was at one point the worst hit site in the nation, reporting 98 confirmed cases among detained immigrants …

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 …

'Long record of abuse': Over 100 groups call on Biden admin to terminate Farmville's ICE contract

More than 100 state and national groups including the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, Progress Virginia, and Doctors for Camp Closure are urging Department of Homeland Security (DHS) …

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” …

Día de Muertos vigils nationwide remember immigrants who've died in immigration custody

Advocates have been remembering immigrants who’ve died while in federal immigration custody in Día de Muertos vigils across the country. The holiday, known in English as Day of the Dead and widely …

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 …

Shocking report sheds light on gross human rights violations faced by women at Georgia ICE site

An extensive new report sheds further light on the abuses against immigrants detained at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Georgia, including first-hand accounts from women abused by a …

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 …

'Years of work on the ground made this happen': Immigrants finally moved from notorious ICE facility

Immigrants are no longer being detained at the notorious Georgia facility currently the focus of a federal investigation for medical abuses against detained women. While Department of Homeland …

Internal emails continue to confirm that ICE knowingly helped spread COVID-19 abroad

Internal documents obtained by a government watchdog continue to confirm that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was knowingly worsening the novel coronavirus pandemic. It wasn’t just that the …

DHS secretary orders termination of ICE contracts with two sites under federal investigation

It’s a rough day for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and that’s a good thing. The Washington Post reports that in a major victory for immigrants and their advocates, Department of Homeland …

Groups sue private prison profiteer for chemical attack on asylum-seekers protesting conditions

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico and the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center (NMILC) have sued a private prison profiteer over its inhumane and violent treatment of a number of …

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 …