Category: Detention
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This is Austin Kocker and Adam Sawyer’s blog post which is a good way to learn more about immigration detention centers. He reports that immigraton detention centers are reporting a recond number of 61,226 detainees. (This may be undercounted because of local holding facilities of various kinds.)
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The new report explains how the Trump administration is using a longstanding loophole to circumvent sanctuary policies and obscure the full scale of its immigration actions. July 30, 2025 This morning, the Prison Policy Initiative released Hiding in Plain Sight, a report revealing the crucial role that locally-run jails are playing in President Trump’s program of mass…
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Trump Administration Orders Massive Expansion of GPS Ankle Monitors for Immigrants by Austin Kocher Ankle monitors could double taxpayer costs to $500,000 per day despite nearly 100% compliance for people in ICE’s alternatives to detention program. Read on Substack https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js
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Farmville Herald June 10, 2025 The Farmville Detention Center has new ownership. That filing came Tuesday night, announcing that CoreCivic, based out of Brentwood, Tennessee, had acquired the Farmville facility for a total price of $67 million. The deal is expected to close as of July 1, with 100% of the membership interest transferring to…
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Richmond.com Riverside Regional Jail is now a contractor for federal immigration enforcement, which is paying the facility to provide detention services, according to a contract between the two obtained by The Times-Dispatch. The facility signed off on the agreement on May 8. The document itself is heavily redacted. “The purpose of this task order is…
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Link | Revealed: Guardian analysis provides a detailed picture of surging arrests and a detention system that’s stretched beyond capacity
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This article reports that Fort Bliss (outside of El Paso, Texas) will be expanded to hold 5000 detainees.
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Do you wonder what’s going on in Mexico in 2025 now that the US has changed its asylum practices?At minute mark 37 of this podcast, you can hear Gretchen Kuhner (ED of the NGO El Instituto para las Mujeres en la Migracion) talk about current conditions in MEX regarding enforcement, detention, sylum, etc. She mentions this: 1.…
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Listen to Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon Discuss Their New Book: “Immigration Detention Inc.” by Austin Kocher Immigrant detention is at record highs and the Trump admin wants nearly $50 billion to expand detention capacity. A new book provides critical information about who profits from detention. Read on Substack
Immigration Insight 