The Vera Institute of Justice released a report showing that ICE detention populations have reached record levels under the second Trump administration, with the system reaching unprecedented levels and a 61% increase in detention bookings in the first two and a half months of 2026.
The ACLU has released documents indicating that ICE is considering the development of seven new immigration detention centers across the Eastern Seaboard, two of which are former correctional facilities with long histories of abuse.
Sen. Steve Padilla introduced SB 941 to prohibit excessive markups on basic goods sold in private detention facilities in California, in an effort to curb corporate profiteering and protect detainees from exploitation.
Assemblymember Alex Lee plans to introduce legislation to bar companies contracting with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from receiving certain state tax benefits and redirect resulting revenue toward immigrant legal aid.
Bianca Tylek has raised concerns about the expansion of private prison corporations profiting from the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies, which has led to longer detention periods, the reopening of previously closed facilities, and the influx of new vendors in the immigration detention space.
Civil rights attorney Alec Karakatsanis accuses elite media institutions of helping to normalize mass incarceration by distorting the intentions behind it, and argues that the New York Times article glorifying a federal prosecutor’s career built on caging low-income people in the Bronx and Vermont is an example of this “Big Deception”.
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On Monday, a Florida corporation, GEO Group, filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging AB 32, a…
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By Daniel Nichanian Before adjourning for the year on Friday, California’s legislature passed a series of reforms…
(from Press Release) – Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) today welcomed news of the return of the last…