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Private Immigration Detention Center Released Dying Inmate to Avoid Medical and Burial Costs
March 20, 2012 No Comment

Private Immigration Detention Center Released Dying Inmate to Avoid Medical and Burial Costs

Fernando Dominguez was dying from pneumonia in an immigration detention facility so GEO Group, the company who ran the facility, ...

How Far Are Private Prisons Willing to Go For Profit?
March 14, 2012 No Comment

How Far Are Private Prisons Willing to Go For Profit?

How far will for-profit immigrant detention centers go for a dollar!? Pembroke Pines voted to cutoff water and waste services ...

A Humane Immigration Detention Facility?
March 14, 2012 No Comment

A Humane Immigration Detention Facility?

Is this a right step forward? Immigration detention facilites have had more than their fare share of human rights violations, ...

Policy and Religious Groups Urge Governors Not to Privatize Prisons
March 5, 2012 No Comment

Policy and Religious Groups Urge Governors Not to Privatize Prisons

This appeal comes after Correctional Corporation of America (CCA), the largest private prison company in the US, offered states it’s ...

GEO Group Loses Contract in Mississippi
March 1, 2012 No Comment

GEO Group Loses Contract in Mississippi

Color of Change wins local Mississippi fight against prisons for profit GEO Group. (via Color of Change Blog) ### Youth ...

Occupy Movement Targets The 'American Legislative Exchange Council'
March 1, 2012 No Comment

Occupy Movement Targets The ‘American Legislative Exchange Council’

Today the Occupy Movement target the American Legislative Exchange Council, the same group the brought you SB 1070. (Flickr: DonkeyHotey) ...

Report Finds a Thirty Three Percent Decline In Deportation Filings
February 28, 2012 No Comment

Report Finds a Thirty Three Percent Decline In Deportation Filings

Deportation filings have fallen by 33%. But we still gotta ask – is this relative? In 2011 Obama administration reportedrecord ...

Methodist Church Pulls Investments from Private Prisons
February 22, 2012 No Comment

Methodist Church Pulls Investments from Private Prisons

CCA and GEO Group have lost a high-profile investor–the United Methodist Church–are these for-profit prison operators feeling the pain? The ...

ICE Will Shut Down Program That Deputizes Local Police Enforcement
February 18, 2012 No Comment

ICE Will Shut Down Program That Deputizes Local Police Enforcement

Sound too good to be true? Well, yes and no. ICE will soon put a halt on its deputizing program ...

Corrections Corporation of America's Robocall to the Southwest Ranches/Pembroke Pines Community
February 15, 2012 No Comment

Corrections Corporation of America’s Robocall to the Southwest Ranches/Pembroke Pines Community

Thanks to the residents of Southwest Ranches/Pembroke Pines for posting this on their noprisonswr.org site. The Florida privatization bill is ...