Yes, over 90% of facilities are owned or operated by private prison companies. Some are completely owned by the private prison companies (so-called Contract Detention Facilities) while others are owned by state or local governments, operated by private prison companies, and leased to ICE.
The facility in New Jersey that arrested the Mayor for his right to inspect the Facility was given a 15 year contract in February without approval by the City.
Roughly one third. The biggest spike under Trump for ICE detentions of those arrested in the interior has been among those with no prior criminal history, but those with at least one prior conviction (of any kind, no matter how minor) remain the largest group. By next month that may change.
Good to know.
Have you heard anything about undocumented victims of sex crimes being targeted if they filed a report in the past? SWIM was assaulted shortly after arriving in NYC. She went to the police and did a rape kit. Her lawyer suspects those records were how she was IDed in the first place.
How many are minors? What’s going on with the children?
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Of that 277,000, ICE reports that 191,000 were “released to remove” (so deported). The rest were mostly released. A few thousand transferred to criminal custody. And no, detention centers are NOT the ones making any decisions about who is held there. That’s all ICE.
That is the end-of-May meeting where Stephen Miller brought every ICE Field Office Director into a room and screamed at them to start rounding people up at Home Depot and to stop focusing on people with criminal records. The Los Angeles raids started a couple weeks later.
I highly recommend Jean Guerrero's biography of Miller, "Hatemonger", for anyone interested. He is grotesque. Acquisitive, vengeful, ceaselessly laboring toward cruelty.
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Is there a reputable source for finding out the total of number of deportations? And perhaps the number to what countries? I've been searching and can't find anything that can be verified.
good evidence for Miller's trial at The Hague 👿