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Thousands Of Dollars In Reward Offered For Help To Find Detainees Who Escaped New Jersey Immigration Detention Center

Federal officials are offering up to $10,000 for information that could lead to the arrest of each of the two migrants who escaped New Jersey's Delaney Hall

Latin Times

Takeaways from AP's reporting on shuttered prisons, mass deportation push and no-bid contracts

Private prison operators are marketing their shuttered lockups to federal immigration officials as President Donald Trump pushes for mass deportations, with some facilities nabbing lucrative no-bid contracts

The Independent UK

ICE is using no-bid contracts, boosting big firms, to get more detention beds

No-bid contracts with politically connected companies have become crucial to the Republican Trump administration’s push for more space to hold immigrants for deportation

The Independent UK

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EPA drops case against prison company that has donated heavily to Trump

Geo Group faced up to $4m in fines for violations involving the use of a toxic disinfectant at an immigration facility

The Guardian - US

Detainees at New Jersey immigration center revolt as chaos unravels

Four people escaped after group held at Delaney Hall Ice facility pushed down wall amid police and protester clashes

The Guardian - US

DOGE finds an unlikely new cut as $47m plan for nation’s largest migrant detention center put on hold

Pause in detention contract process comes as administration seeks massive expansion to ICE detention system

The Independent UK

Forced Labor Allegations at Immigration Facility Headed to Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving private prison operator GEO Group, which seeks to appeal a lower court's decision denying it governmental immunity in a class action lawsuit alleging forced labor at an immigration detention center in Colorado

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Ethics Watchdog Raises Flags Around Border Czar's Ties to Private Detention Giant

"This news raises even more questions, and the corruption concerns are too large to ignore," said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the Senate Judiciary Committee's top Democrat

Latin Times

Officer at Texas ICE Facility Faces Federal Charges for Allegedly Choking Handcuffed Detainee

A private security officer at a Texas immigrant detention center run by ICE has been charged for allegedly choking a handcuffed detainee

Latin Times

Trump officials ‘created confrontation’ that led to arrest of Newark mayor

Democratic Congress members who visited detention center with mayor say Ice officials ‘created the chaos’

The Guardian - US

DHS warns Congress member arrests ‘on the table’ after tense ice facility standoff

The DHS is now trying to arrest members of congress.

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New Jersey mayor to continue fight against Ice detention center after arrest

Newark’s Ras Baraka says court fight against Geo Group will go on despite being jailed and charged with trespassing

The Guardian - US

WATCH: Democratic Newark Mayor Arrested While Protesting Opening of Immigration Detention Center

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested on Friday while protesting the opening of a federal immigration detention center

Latin Times

New Jersey mayor arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting, prosecutor says

A federal prosecutor says the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, has been arrested at an ICE Detention Center where he was protesting its opening

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The Guardian - US

Not just Alcatraz: the notorious US prisons Trump is already reopening

Amid outrage over ‘far-fetched’ plans to revive Alcatraz, Trump is pushing to expand Ice detention to other closed lockups marked by scandals

Latin Times

ICE Opens New Jersey Detention Center Earlier Than Expected Despite Legal Dispute With City of Newark

Authorities have identified over two dozen safety issues involving plumbing, fire code compliance, and electrical systems

Latin Times

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.

The Independent UK

Why Trump is jailing student activists in Louisiana, where thousands of immigrants are detained in private prisons

Inside the state’s sprawling and remote ICE detention centers, immigrants feel like they’re ‘screaming into a void’ thousands of miles from home, lawyers and advocates tell Alex Woodward

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Private Prison Companies Poised for Windfall as Trump Admin Outlines $45B Plan to Revolutionize Immigrant Detention

Private prison companies stand to benefit significantly from a sweeping new plan proposed by the Trump administration to overhaul the U.S. immigrant detention system.

The Independent UK

ICE chief thinks deportation system should be run like Amazon Prime ‘but with human beings’

Todd Lyons made the comments during an expo where private companies were exploring potential opportunities to profit off of Trump’s deportation agenda

The Independent UK

Notice of immigration escape came too late to help, police say

Police say two men escaped from a Denver area immigration detention center apparently after its back doors opened during a power outage

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More People in ICE Custody Means Smaller Meals and Delayed Medical Care, Detainees Say

Those being held say they're having to gather donations to clothe and feed the new arrivals.

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

The Guardian - US

Abuse claims are rife in California detention centers. Now the facilities are poised to expand

A court has allowed one of state’s largest centers to resume operations, weeks after reports Ice wants to build new ones

Latin Times

ICE Already Receiving Proposals To Expand Detention Capabilities in Six States

Private companies, including CoreCivic and GEO Group, submitted proposals that could collectively add between 6,650 and 12,000 detention beds nationwide

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