In May, the nation’s two largest private prison contractors announced dramatic increases in their first-quarter earnings for the year. The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) reported a 17 percent increase over...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is striking deals with private prison companies to lock up a “guaranteed minimum” of mothers with their children in euphemistically-termed family detention...
The so-called "guaranteed minimums" assure that a specific number of detainees will be held in captivity at all times at the for-profit ran institutions. "Guaranteed minimums, which appear mostly in...
Immigrant mothers and their children are being detained under guaranteed minimum provisions, which assure fixed detainee quotas, effectively rendering immigrants a source of profit for private and...
The Supreme Court’s June 23, 2016, nine-word ruling in the case of US v. Texas is deeply disappointing. The 4-4 tied decision means that the Fifth Circuit’s preliminary injunction against President...
Las madres y niños migrantes forman parte de la ecuación para llenar las llamadas “cuotas de cama” mínimas en cárceles locales y centros de detención , según denunció un informe divulgado este jueves...
Law enforcement is in the business of dealing with insecurity. But the one thing that’s always secure about America’s law-enforcement system is the number of immigrants it imprisons each day. The...
July 15, 2016, New York – Last night, in a case seeking documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regarding the detention bed quota in immigration detention facilities, a federal judge...
... Just last week, a federal judge ruled that the government must make contracts with private prison companies available to the public. Detention Watch and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR...
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