"#GeoGroup and #CoreCivic spent millions lobbying for the Fair Access to Banking Act, a pending bill that seeks to prevent banks from denying access to institutions or people including those involved in “politically unpopular businesses" #privateprisons https://theintercept.com/2026/02/05/private-prison-corecivic-geo-group-ice-bank-loan/
#privateprisons
"#GeoGroup and #CoreCivic spent millions lobbying for the Fair Access to Banking Act, a pending bill that seeks to prevent banks from denying access to institutions or people including those involved in “politically unpopular businesses" #privateprisons https://theintercept.com/2026/02/05/private-prison-corecivic-geo-group-ice-bank-loan/
no wonder I feel sick to my stomach most of the time
*“I have worked at CoreCivic for 32 years, and this is truly one of the most exciting periods in my career with the company… perhaps the most significant growth in our company’s history over the next several years.”* — CEO Damon Hininger
Why Isn’t News of #Trump Building Vast #ConcentrationCamps Being Treated as a #NationalEmergency?
History shows us that once a nation builds a #MassDetention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. Wake up, people.
by #ThomHartmann, Feb 05, 2026
Excerpt: "The British originated the term '#ConcentrationCamp' to describe facilities where '#rebel' or 'undesirable' civilians were held in #SouthAfrica during the #SecondAngloBoerWar (1899–1902) to control and punish a #rebellious population.
"They were facilities where the 'bad elements of society' were 'concentrated' into one location so they could be easily controlled and would lose access to society and thus could not spread their messages of #resistance against the #BritishEmpire.
"Future generations of Americans—our children and grandchildren—won’t ask us whether #ICE followed civil detention statutes: they’ll want to know why we allowed concentration camps to exist in America at all.
"The Germans adopted the term in 1933 when #Hitler took power and created his first camp for #communists, #socialists, #UnioLleaders, and, by the end of the year, Hitler’s #PoliticalOpponents. They Germanized the phrase into '#Konzentrationslager' and referred to the process of their incarceration as 'protective custody.'
"The first camp was built at #Dachau just weeks after Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, and by the end of the year there were around 70 of them operating across the country."
#USPol #WakeUpPeople #HistoryRepeats #Fascism #Authoritarianism #DetentionCenters
#PrivatePrisons #CriminalizingDissent
#SilencingDissent #CharacteristicsOfFascism #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
#USMilitary Helping #Trump to Build Massive Network of ‘#ConcentrationCamps,’ #Navy Contract Reveals
The #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity is using a repurposed $55 billion Navy contract to convert #warehouses into makeshift #jails and plan sprawling #TentCities in remote areas.
Stephen Prager, Feb 02, 2026
Excerpt: "According to a source familiar with the project, 'the goal is for the facilities to house as many as 10,000 people each, and are expected to be built in #Louisiana, #Georgia, #Pennsylvania, #Indiana, #Utah, and #Kansas.'
"Now Manríquez reports that the project has just gotten much bigger after a Navy grant was repurposed weeks ago. It was authorized through the Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract (WEXMAC), a flexible purchasing system that the government uses to quickly move military equipment to dangerous and remote parts of the world.
"The contract states that the money is being repurposed for '#TITUS,' an abbreviation for 'Territorial Integrity of the United States.' While it’s not unusual for Navy contracts to be used for expenditures aimed at protecting the nation, Manríquez warned that such a staggering movement of funds for domestic detention points to something ominous. "
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/military-contract-concentration-camps
#USPol #DetentionCenters #PrivatePrisons #Authoritarianism #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #SilencingDissent #SilencingDissent #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
#ICE’s #PrivatePrison Contractors Spent Millions Lobbying to Force Banks to Give Them Loans
Major banks have denied financing to #GEOGroup and #CoreCivic — but legislation pushed by the firms could force their hand.
Biplob Kumar Das
February 5 2026
"Now, the private prison firms are fighting back, spending millions on lobbying Congress to pass a law to require that the banks can’t deny their business."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/05/private-prison-corecivic-geo-group-ice-bank-loan/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/cofGX
MOC #38 - Biden To End Fossil Fuel Subsidies?
DC Scammers #1: How Private Prisons Kept Slavery Going
ACLU Suit Targets “Dire” Conditions at CoreCivic-Run ICE Jail in California
People held at the Core Civic-run Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jail in Kern County, California are denied medical care, access to their attorneys, and, for disabled detainees, the most basic accommodations, according to a class-action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and others this week in the the U.S. District Court for Northern California.
This post has been syndicated from Truthout, where it was published under this address.
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In Earnings Calls, Private Prison Executives Revel in Profiting Off ICE Arrests
“Our business is perfectly aligned with the demands of this moment,” CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger said on the call.Will the Supreme Court Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity?
A private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.https://murica.website/2025/10/will-the-supreme-court-hand-government-contractors-blanket-immunity/
Has #ICE renewed #TacomaWA #DetentionCenter contract? It won’t say
By Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks, Sep. 25, 2025
Excerpt: "The 10-year contract for the private company operating the #NorthwestICEProcessingCenter in Tacoma is set to end this month, but secrecy shrouds whether it’s been extended.
"#Immigration advocates and legal experts have heavily criticized the lack of transparency over the expected renewal of the contract between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and #GEOGroup, which owns and manages the 1,575-bed, jail-like facility.
"Neither GEO Group nor ICE officials have released information about a new contract for running the detention center. The current contract, inked in 2015 as a one-year contract with an option to renew each year for nine years, is set to expire Sept. 27. The contract awarded GEO Group a minimum of $700 million over 10 years.
" 'It not only puts a veil over people’s eyes, but also prevents people inside the detention center from knowing what the future of this detention center is going to be,' said Josefina Mora-Cheung, director of organizing at #LaResistencia a local #activist group advocating for the end of #MassDeportations and the closure of detention centers.
"GEO Group and ICE officials did not answer emailed questions about whether a new contract was signed or whether the existing contract has been extended. Officials did not respond to reporters’ requests to provide copies of the new contract, should it exist.
" 'We cannot confirm pre-decisional contract selections, but we can confirm that ICE is exploring all options to meet its current requirements,' said ICE spokesperson Chrissy Cuttita in an email Tuesday."
#USPol #DetentionCenters
#ICEDetainees #ICESucks #PrivatePrisons #PrisonState #IndefiniteDetention #WashingtonState
“Godsend” or “#ConcentrationCamp”? A Lucrative #ICE Deal Divides a #Colorado Town.
Trump has unleashed a gold rush among #PrivatePrison companies taking on #ImmigrationDetention. In #CashStrapped cities, residents aren’t sure the money is worth it.
Isabela Dias, November+December 2025 Issue
Excerpt: "[T]he prospect of a privately run #ICE facility has divided #WalsenburgCO. Some locals and public officials have welcomed the potential influx of money and jobs. 'It’s a godsend,' Mayor Gary Vezzani told a TV reporter in early July. 'If they use it for ICE or use it for a prison or use it for whatever they use it for, we really don’t care…It’s a pretty big paying customer for us. We’re not big enough, nor [is] anybody here big enough to stop it. So, we may as well take advantage.'
"The mayor’s comments sparked fierce backlash. At a July 15 county commissioners meeting, one resident succinctly shot back: 'We don’t want to be known as a town with a concentration camp.' At a city council meeting the same day, a speaker argued that 'what’s happening in Walsenburg isn’t just #corrupt. It’s #fascist. It’s a blueprint for #authoritarianism wrapped in barbed wire and dressed up as local revival.' "
#USPol #CORECivic #Colorado #DetentionCenters #ICEDetainees #ICESucks #PrivatePrisons #PrisonState #IndefiniteDetention
Private Prisons: An Exceptionally Niche Asset Class Meets Its Moment
The #Trump administration’s #crackdown on foreign residents has investors and operators mulling new options
By Patrick Sisson, September 9, 2025
Excerpt: " 'I think the liability they’ve [#ForProfitPrisons] experienced is that at different times in their #corporate history, if the demand for #PrivatePrisons decreases, then they have empty facilities sitting there, right?' said Shar Habibi, research and policy director of In the Public Interest, a nonprofit that has advocated against private prisons. 'That’s not good.' "
Read more:
https://commercialobserver.com/2025/09/private-prisons-investment-immigration/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/v2EZr
#USPol #TrumpSucks #PrisonState
#SilencingDissent #IndefiniteDetention #ICE #protesters #ICESucks #Corporatocracy #authoritarianism #PrivatePrison #GEOGroup #CoreCivic
The #PrivatePrison Industry Looks Forward to Soaring Profits Thanks to #Trump’s Budget
The $45 billion for immigration #detention in the "Big, Beautiful Bill" represented a long-sought win for #PrivatePrisons.
by Matt Sledge, July 10 2025
"The private prison industry saw its influence wane under Joe Biden, but it remains dominant in the business of immigration detention. So when President Donald Trump signed the so-called 'Big, Beautiful Bill' on July 4, dedicating $45 billion to immigration detention with a goal to double or triple the population behind bars, it was a huge payoff.
"The victory was in the works for years. A private prison company handed consulting and lobbying gigs to Trump’s allies, its political action committee was the first to max out its donation to Trump, and industry executives had already made plans to reopen shuttered prisons — laying the groundwork for what they promised investors would be an incarceration bonanza.
"In the 2024 election cycle, employees and PACs affiliated with the publicly traded industry behemoths #GEOGroup and CoreCivic contributed overwhelmingly to #Republicans and Trump.
"Republicans received 92 percent of $3.7 million in contributions affiliated with GEO Group and 96 percent of the $785,000 in contributions affiliated with #CoreCivic, according to #OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research group that tracks official disclosures. When Trump won, the two companies gave $500,000 each to his #inaugural committee."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/10/corecivic-trump-big-beautiful-bill/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/t6cYB
#USPol #TrumpSucks #BigUglyBill #BigBeautifulBill #PrisonState #SilencingDissent #IndefiniteDetention #ICE #protesters
Taking a break before moving onto the next topic -- #PrivatePrisons ! #DoublePlusUngood!
Sam Levin: ‘Hell on earth’: immigrants held in new #California detention facility beg for help
"Immigrants locked up in California’s newest federal detention center have described the facility as a “a torture chamber”, “a zoo” and “hell on earth”, saying they were confined in filthy cells and suffered medical crises without help."
#ICE #prison #immigration #privateprisons
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/27/immigrants-california-detention-facility
This is a critical article to read and for us to all understand [Just Security]: Private Prison Companies’ Enormous Windfall: Who Stands to Gain as ICE Expands By Lauren-Brooke Eisen, September 24, 2025
https://www.justsecurity.org/121226/private-prison-companies-gain-ice-expands/
#privateprisons #immigration #geoGroup #CoreCivic #policeState
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