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Exploring strategies for resistance to the mass detention, deportation, and surveillance of our neighbors. Calling on Citizens Bank to stop financing GEO Group and CoreCivic.
"ICE announced that another human being died in custody at the GEO-owned Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Clearfield County, PA. 32 year-old Chinese citizen Gaofeng Ge died by an apparent suicide in the shower area of his dorm on August 5, 2025. He’d been in ICE custody for just five days."
When the response to death is lies and coverup, the result is more death.
Thanks to @delasoulll.bsky.social for sharing this update.
McEntee Law Group and Lee & Godshall-Bennett LLP uncover disturbing hidden medical crisis at Florida's "Alligato Alcatraz." As DHS stays quiet, one man was thought to be dead by his family.
Rivas Velásquez's family reportedly got a call from someone else detained at the facility informing them that he had died.
DHS says he's alive and was simply taken to the hospital after fainting, but his family hasn't spoken to him.
Now they're begging for proof of life.
What a nightmare.
Luis Fríos’ sister and girlfriend demanded that they be provided with “proof of life.”
Several Venezuelan news outlets are reporting the death of Luis Manuel Rivas Velásquez, known online as Luis Frío, on Aug. 5 at the Everglades detention camp.
If true, his death would be the first (that we know of) at the facility.
Luis Manuel Rivas Velásquez, conocido como Luis Frío, murió el 5 de agosto en el centro de detención Alligator Alcatraz en Florida
As part of the effort to win over communities, GEO Group likes to highlight how much money it gives out locally in scholarships.
But that scholarship money often looks meager compared to what GEO gives out to elected officials in those communities.
Another CoreCivic hearing this week, where the private prison company asked the judge to dismiss three counts that the city of Leavenworth has levied against the company. A rally ahead of time focused on immigration issues. kansasreflector.com/2025/08/06/c...
CoreCivic attorneys asked a judge Wednesday to dismiss three counts in a case filed by the City of Leavenworth.
The lawsuit accuses ICE of unlawfully deporting three U.S. citizen kids, including a four-year-old with stage-four kidney cancer, alongside their noncitizen parents in April—without due process, parental consent, or access to legal counsel.
You can support the lawyers working on this at nipnlg.org.
Lawsuit: ICE Agents Deported Citizen Children in Secret, Including 4-Year-Old on Chemo migrantinsider.com/p/lawsuit-ic...
Federal suit says DHS officials violated agency policy and constitutional rights in April deportation of Louisiana families
GEO Group in particular has donated to a number of sheriffs, mayors, and county commissioners in Texas over the years.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, several of the local officials who have accepted prison money have faced serious allegations of corruption on other matters.
This is important. Last month, FT reporting on a man who was moved a DOZEN TIMES.
Worth mentioning: GEO Group founder and executive chairman George Zoley said on yesterday's earnings call that subsidiary GEO Transport is now the largest provider of ground and air transport for ICE.
Shell game? Frequent long-distance moves through ICE detention system leave families and lawyers struggling to keep track of migrants facing deportation.
Frequent long-distance moves leave families and lawyers struggling to keep track of people facing deportation—and undermine their legal defense.
Several Venezuelan news outlets are reporting the death of Luis Manuel Rivas Velásquez, known online as Luis Frío, on Aug. 5 at the Everglades detention camp.
If true, his death would be the first (that we know of) at the facility.
Luis Manuel Rivas Velásquez, conocido como Luis Frío, murió el 5 de agosto en el centro de detención Alligator Alcatraz en Florida
Absolutely. Obama and Biden directed the DOJ to phase out federal use of private prisons in 2016 and 2021, respectively. And of course Trump came in and immediately reversed those orders.
