Private prison company to operate 'home curfew' pilot program for detained migrants: report

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Source: The Hill

Aprivate prison operator is set to run a pilot program to track immigrants who are placed in house detention rather than in detention facilities.

GEO Group, one of the country's largest operators of detention facilities, will run the program through its BI Incorporated subsidiary, reported
Reuters.

The move is part of the Biden administration's push to decrease immigrant detention and draw down for-profit incarceration, but it's still being met by resistance from immigrant rights advocates.

A coalition of immigrant advocacy groups - National Immigration Project, National Immigrant Justice Center, Detention Watch Network, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Human Rights First, Community Change Action, and FIRM Action - panned the plan Wednesday, saying it would expand the number of immigrants under surveillance by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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[Magoo48]

1. What happened with doing away with private prisons?

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2. PACs found and exploited a key loophole

Holding detained immigrants for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Biden signed an executive order his first week in office that banned new private prison contracts, but it didn't apply to immigrant detention centers.

One federal prison in PA owned by the GEO Group has reopened as an immigrant detention center, and prison companies are exploring the same playbook for at least a half-dozen other private facilities with expiring contracts.

[ananda]

3. Fuck. Is it too late to include them?

???

[Torchlight]

4. I don't know.

I do know that CoreCivic (one of the larger for-profit prison companies) are finalizing the end-stage planning to re-brand five of their prisons to ICE rather than DOJ jurisdiction.

[AZLD4Candidate]

5. Private Prisons are a damned disgrace. If I continued my run for AZ House

it was on my platform to completely eliminated.

Private prisons need inmates in order to survive, so they lobby hard for stricter laws and harsher, longer sentences.

[Evolve Dammit]

6. Corporate private prisons systems were expanded and invested in by the Bush family