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ICE removes detainee protections after contractor outreach

newsJun 16, 202616789

ICE released revised federal detention standards on Monday after private outreach from its top contractor, GEO Group, removing or narrowing protections for people held in immigration detention. The new language limits detainees' legal remedies and creates provisions that shield contractors from certain liability tied to detainee labor and facility conditions. GEO Group privately requested edits during agency discussions that mirror the company’s defense arguments in litigation over detention practices. Those changes matter because they reduce detainees' ability to sue over forced labor, transfers, or unsafe conditions and strengthen the legal position of private prison operators.

Joyce White Vance
@joycewhitevance.bsky.social

Sounds a lot like skirting the constitutional prohibition on involuntary servitude by paying $1/day & claiming that immigration detains volunteered to do that www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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wweiss53.bsky.social14

For profit prisons should not exist in the United States 🇺🇸 Privatization of government functions including public education, roads and bridges, prisons, probation management and drug enforcement should never generate profit for anyone.

Hellishchildren12

GEO is still fighting this decision. Oct 27, 2021 Private Prison Operator GEO Group Must Pay Detained Immigrants Minimum Wage for Work, Jury Rules

BionicBlonde12

Right wingers in the South (and elsewhere) miss having slaves so much. I don't believe this is how the USA is going to become a better country.

gacyclist.bsky.social8

Had an immigration attorney on here tell me repeatedly that detainees would not be used as essentially slave labor when I commented that eventually detainees would be working in factories harvesting crops etc for slave wages.

Carolyn8

“Slavery” is also named in the exclusion clause in the 13th Amendment. as punishment for a crime. However, I don’t believe anyone in the ICE concentration facilities have been convicted of a crime by a judge and jury.

Kim7

I am growing to hate the Republicans who are doing all this more every day.

jalnx.bsky.social5

Just a reminder: Citizens Bank gave CoreCivic and GEO Group $2.5 billion in financing. Don't contribute to the evil by doing business with Citizens. www.bankingdive.com/news/custome...

Steve Holcombe5

This is of course abjectly and overwhelmingly unconstitutional. 13A states: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Robert Fischoff4

It’s part of the plan. Bring back slavery. The Trump Regime can’t murder every dark skinned person in the country; too much trouble. So why not put them to work for nothing? Builds character. “Work Will Set You Free.”

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