This is how the town of Jena came to rely on GEO Group—ICEs favored private prison operator—and how GEO Group buys its silence. Not just with jobs and tax revenue, but with free lunches, Christmas caroling, and doling out cash every three months.
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Like many others, its ICE detention center was formerly a prison that was closed repeatedly for abuse (of children), only to find new life generating twice as much money as an immigrant detention warehouse.
jun 19, 2025, 4:42 pm • 10 0 • view
There are plenty of prison towns in LA, but immigrant detention towns are new. Incredibly, they are the result of criminal justice reform: in 2017, w a Dem governor, the state closed some prisons. GEO immediately went to the feds, and got paid double to fill them with immigrants.
jun 19, 2025, 4:42 pm • 11 1 • view
My long and combative dispatch from the American gulag archipelago, featuring the KKK, Hurricane Katrina, Hillary Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Ice Cube, and a very angry newspaper editor, where everyone tried their best to say nothing. slate.com/business/202...
jun 19, 2025, 4:43 pm • 17 6 • view
It's called a concentration camp.
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