Mapping hunger strikes at ICE detention centers and private prison profiteers

A hunger strike, protests and a pepper-sprayed U.S. senator - NJ

Why are inmates going on hunger strikes at ICE facilities? Why is ICE blocking Senators from inspecting conditions inside their prisons? How is ICE punishing prisoners who protest their inhumane living conditions? Who is profiting from private ICE prisons? Check this StoryMap.

• Immigrants held at ‘inhumane’ California ICE facility start hunger strike - Mission Local
• Strikes in several ICE detention centers follow growing scrutiny into conditions at prison-like facilities - Independent
• Immigrants at NJ Delaney Hall ICE detention center go on hunger, labor strike - Gothamist
• Vanguard is a large investor in private prison operator GEO which is the largest prison contractor for ICE
• Inhumane prison conditions and starvation  are a tactic often used by Nazis and fascist regimes.

Hunger strikes at ICE facilities

Profits over principles

Vanguard is a large investor in private prison operator GEO which is the largest prison contractor for ICE. ICE and GEO regularly exchange executives.

• We put idealism into practice, applying discipline, judgment, humanity - Salim Ramji, CEO
• "We set out to think beyond profits and take a stand for everyday investors." - Vanguard
• Vanguard is directly undermining democracy. - Paul Loeb - Soul Of A Citizen
• Complaints about inhumane treatment at ICE detention facilities, raise questions whether abuses have been enabled by coziness between the agency’s leadership and its top contractor. - POGO
• Slave ships were overcrowded - just like ICE detention centers. Historians estimate that over 15% of the enslaved Africans bound for the Americas died aboard slave ships. - Brittanica

Follow the money and people moving between Vanguard, GEO and GOP

Resources

• Abuse and Retaliation Against Hunger Strikers in U.S. Immigration Detention - ACLU
• Group committed to ending immigration incarceration- Freedom For Immigrants
• Analysis of U.S. government immigration enforcement data - Deportation Data Project
• GEO Group - ICE - GOP - Vanguard relationship map
• The business of ICE detention centers - Financial Times

Take Away: Call your MAGA rep: Hold ICE and corporate prison profiteers accountable.

Deepak
DemLabs

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