I wonder if, as funders, we might examine more closely a central contradiction within our “democracy”: that millions of US citizens are systemically denied full democratic participation and access to opportunity. For Fred Ward, Director of Building Freedom Ohio, these…
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - The Public Safety Director outlined steps they say they are taking to prevent another escape after a detainee left the City Justice Center earlier this month. Director of Public Safety Shawn Dace spoke to the…
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has awarded the private prisons company GEO Group a $1.5 billion contract to continue running the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma. GEO Group’s previous 10-year contract ended last year.The facility, in the Tacoma tideflats,…
The private prison and detention company will receive $1.5 billion to run the jail-like immigrant detention facility in Tacoma over the next 10 years. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement awarded a new 10-year contract to the GEO Group for the immigrant detention center…
The federal contractor that operates the immigration detention center in Tacoma, the GEO Group, announced Thursday that it secured a contract to continue operating the facility for ICE for 10 years. The deal is valued at about $1.5 billion. The Northwest ICE…
Two state lawmakers plan to sponsor legislation that would allow Howard County to set higher taxes for detention facilities, including one planned by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “We can’t block or prohibit ICE from operating a facility, and that’s not…
Kristin Turney, Steven Schmidt, Isha Bhallamudi, Amy Gong Liu, Ashley Torres Sociological Science October 29, 2026 10.15195/v13.a47 Abstract Research consistently documents the wide-ranging strains of family member incarceration, but less is known about the different ways family members work together to manage these…
Updated on: June 5, 2024 / 8:53 AM EDT / CBS Boston NORFOLK - Massachusetts is planning to turn an old, vacant prison into a temporary emergency shelter for migrant families. But people in Norfolk who live near it say they still have a lot of…
The next Wisconsin governor faces decisions about aging prisons Wisconsin’s next governor will oversee Wisconsin’s Department of Corrections, one of the state’s largest agencies with more than 10,000 employees and an annual budget of roughly $1.8 billion. They’ll also face decisions about…
Why a detention center moratorium, and why Burien? This fear has been shared by communities all across the county, resulting in a series of jurisdictions passing moratoriums on the construction of new detention centers, such as the cities of Seattle,…
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