“There's no possible way you could survive off what they feed you,” said Bailey, who is currently incarcerated in Georgia. He and other people behind bars in the state recount seeing rats in the kitchen and insects in the food, and being served meals on trays caked with mold.

Momentum is building 💪 In January, groups were out at 40+ locations. In March, it was 70+. And there are nearly 100 protests already planned for our June coordinated action! Host an action in your area to help raise the volume on calls for Citizens Bank to STOP financing ICE prison companies.

This chart reflects PSB's best understanding of the surveillance and data systems tied into ICE operations, from airline reservation data and license plate readers to Palantir and field mobile biometrics. Built from a review of ICE contracts, FOIA documents, technical specs, and public reporting.

NEW: Senior Dems on the House Homeland Security Committee have launched an inquiry into ICE vendor Edge Ops LLC's $12 million no-bid surveillance contract, after our reporting found the company was using stock photos & dubious credentials to market itself. www.levernews.com/lawmakers-la...

This is a great interview with important info about Citizens Bank, ICE prisons, and the pressure campaign!

Reposting with alt text for folks with screen readers or who find it helpful in general. I agree, let’s shut Dilley down & free our children!

A relatively high number of shareholders (28%) voted against exec comp at GEO Group. Perhaps they were frustrated by all the "performance-based" bonuses that were pretty much based on ICE concentration camps.

Every job posting warns of exposure to toxic chemicals and extreme temperatures at the facility, which the state has argued in court was built to store goods, not house people.

NEW: An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. With @azluminaria.org

We need funding for housing, healthcare, and food assistance — not detention camps.

Another way of thinking about this is that in less than a year, ICE and CBP already spent 1/3 of the funding they got in OBBBA which can be spent through September 30, 2029, suggesting an absurdly high burn rate.

NEW: In the morning, lawmakers plan to introduce an amendment to a $580 billion transportation bill that would make federal highway funds contingent on states and cities killing off their automated license plate reader programs, i.e., Flock, in most cases.

Immigrant detainees being held at the Adelanto ICE Detention facility owned by the Geo Group have begun a hunger strike to protest inhumane conditions, lack of access to medical care, and deprivation of due process rights including reasonable bonds & access to attorneys 1/2 #NoCampsCA

Meanwhile, this is how GEO Group CEO George Zoley is living. Source: FEC records (address) + Zillow (pics)

Announcing: No Billionaires in our Backyard, a series about the impact billionaires have on our everyday lives when they move into our backyards.

Thank you to @wethepeopledissent.bsky.social, who sat down yesterday with our own Peyton Fleming to talk about the strategy of combining education, protests, and an organized money withdrawal campaign to urge Citizens Bank to stop backing the for-profit ICE prison companies hurting our neighbors.

🙌🏾 Faith leaders of the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO) gathered outside a Citizens Bank to urge the bank to end its practice of financing companies notorious for running detention centers & private prisons. #divestment #CitizensBank #FaithInAction #UCC #GBIO

👀 Just GEO Group maximizing shareholder value

"CoreCivic [...] can make approximately $15.6M a month operating the site no matter how many people are detained there." If forced to choose between $15.6M/mo. for an empty facility and $15.6M/mo. for imprisoning kids, it's the former for me. Or, hey, let's put them out of business entirely!

The city council in Bandera, Texas voted 3-2 to terminate its Flock contract after residents repeatedly voiced objections to the mass surveillance system. In '24, over 80% of Bandera residents voted for Donald Trump, by the way.

This 23-year-old was detained four days before a scheduled surgery to have a lime-sized ovarian cyst removed. The pain is now so bad she struggles to talk.

Members of the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization have committed to withdraw over $18M in deposits at Citizens Bank to pressure the bank to stop financing the for-profit prison companies hurting our neighbors. Now GBIO is inviting others to join the "Not With Our Money, Citizens" campaign.

The U.S. Supreme Court asked the U.S. solicitor general to weigh in on whether the court should ​decide if private prison operator GEO Group was required to pay the minimum wage to immigrant detainees who signed up ‌for a work program reut.rs/4dVfPTR

Troubled ICE Medical Provider Remains at Camp East Montana Despite Outcry - - the latest investigation from @pogo.org www.pogo.org/investigates...

The Trump regime is delaying work permit renewals for thousands of DACA recipients, putting their incomes and immigration protections at risk. Many report they were terminated because of the delays. It was never about legal immigration. It was always about cruelty. www.cnn.com/2026/05/16/b...

The CEO of CoreCivic, Patrick Swindle, said: "We remain confident that the detention beds that we provide are the most humane." Months ago, on another investor call, he made this exact same claim. Almost word for word. This is the company that cages kids at the Dilley internment camp in Texas.

In other words, an average of 2.4 agencies have joined the Task Force 287(g) program *every calendar day* since the inauguration last January. The 444 county-level agencies (mainly sheriffs' offices) that participate today represent over 49 million U.S. residents.

May 21 Home Depot's shareholders will vote whether to conduct a study on whether their Flock cams violate customers privacy rights. If you have shares, vote yes. If not, spread the word. Action steps here: www.mass50501.org/actions/home... @nsprogressives.bsky.social @mysticmashupindiv.bsky.social

Detainees are telling us they are being treated brutally. Trump’s admin is trying to stop us from seeing it. And GEO Group has a 15yr $1B contract to run Delaney Hall. Detainees took a huge risk to tell us what’s happening behind closed doors. We must listen and take action now.

We’re ready to talk when you are @gallego.senate.gov

People have already memory-holed how critical #TeslaTakeDown was. It was the earliest decentralized set of protests in the second term as early as Feb 2025 at a time when most people were shell-shocked and Dem leadership was cowering and capitulating. And it pushed Elon out of the WH.

I hope all the South Americans we deported there last month have left. gillianbrockell.com/breaking-ice...

NEW: Federal procurement records show ICE sought more than 65,000 square feet of office space within San Antonio, Texas, in the weeks after the agency bought a 640,000-square-foot warehouse intended for detention operations.

Communities become safer when people don't have to live in fear of their basic needs not being met. Food, housing, healthcare. Communities become safer when there is good education that leads to good opportunities for steady jobs. Mass deportations don't do *anything* to make communities safer.

Terrific follow-up from @nickjudin.bsky.social on the two brothers, Israel and Max Makoka, high school students who came here legally and spent a week in ICE detention. One detail stood out also: Who flew 16yo Max to a Texas children’s home? DELTA. www.mississippifreepress.org/shackled-iso...

Together, we achieved an historic feat: nationwide community organizing to block new ICE & CBP funding during the recent appropriations fight. Now, NIJC & partners will march and rally to demand that elected officials invest in critical community services, not more detention and cruelty. JOIN US:

Unspeakably evil. May the knowledge of what this little boy suffered — and what his mother and siblings will carry for the rest of their lives — motivate us to fight relentlessly for accountability and justice. No paywall: archive.ph/ohxA9

"ICE traumatizes children." Intentionally. ICE tears families apart, imprisons children, and terrorizes children in order to coerce the adults who love them into leaving the country.

If you're looking to end a 287(g) agreement in your town or county, I'd suggest taking note of this statement ⤵️ from a sheriff who was pushed to end her county's partnership last week. Public records requests related to the program became too much of a burden. Government accountability for the win.

Killing people through intentional medical neglect is murder. Doing it systematically to an identifiable group of people (Black and Brown immigrants) who are also being dehumanized in government propaganda shows genocidal intent.

New & important from CNN: "Deadly outcomes in more than a dozen cases could be linked, in part, to substandard treatment by at-times understaffed medical teams dealing with escalating detainee populations [...] failures by [DHS] and its contractors have helped to drive that deadly trend." 1/2

Coalition to Shut the Camps, No Detention Centers in Michigan, Indivisible Downriver United 734, and Detroit Will Breathe invite you to join them on Monday 5/18 at 9:30am outside the courthouse with signs and noisemakers in support of the Romulus and Michigan's lawsuit against the ICE warehouse.

CoreCivic is running death camps. #CitizensBank provides financing for CoreCivic and The GEO Group, for-profit prison companies making money off of misery. #DeIceCitizensBank #ICEOut #NoPrivatePrisons

Local law enforcement has a choice to not help Trump admin's deportation agenda. Watch NIJC's Azadeh Erfani explain how another path is possible when trust & community needs are put over programs like 287(g). Thanks @ramirez.house.gov @chuygarcia.house.gov @sylviagarcia.house.gov for this hearing

ICE is looking for 150 parking spaces for vehicles. ICE is currently parking at the Metropolis Garage, 18 Morton St. We don’t want ICE in NYC. Help us tell the local garages: DON’T COLLABORATE WITH ICE! Call the Metropolis Garage at: (212) 242-8451 Call Metropolis mgmt at: (800) 344-3046

1/2 Today marks 14 months since the Salvadoran men were illegally sent to El Salvador- robbed of due process and human rights. There is very little information about them. Do not forget them. They deserve justice and freedom. #libertad#humanrights

Patrick Swindle succeeded Damon Hininger as CEO of CoreCivic in January. In March, Swindle donated to the Republican National Committee, apparently for the first time, cutting a check for the maximum allowable donation amount of $44,300. See his contribution history: www.fec.gov/data/receipt...

“I don’t want my money going toward that,” longtime Citizens Bank customer and Northwest Bronx Indivisible member Cathy Mulvaney said. “It starts with one person. We can all do something.” #deicecitizensbank

New from @publiccitizen.bsky.social "The tens of thousands of immigrants detained by the US government deserve better than being paid $1 per day, and the federal contractors building an extensive network of detention camps across the country should not be making excessive profits at their expense."