In honor of #SunshineWeek, the #DetentionKills Transparency Initiative
is releasing these recently obtained DHS-OIG offered these records of alleged misconduct and abuse by DHS contractors. You probably don’t have time to read all 547 pages. So we did. 🧵 documentcloud.org/documents/2141…
On page 3, OIG documents receiving a complaint in 2006 regarding the allegations in the litigation LeTisha Tapia’s family brought against $GEO.
Those allegations are shocking, but unsurprising.
@POGOwatchdog’s contractor database has more: contractormisconduct.org/misconduct/256…
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OIG appears to have referred the allegations to ICE in early February 2007 and closed the file. Wonder how ICE responded 🤔
In the years that followed, at least three senior ICE officials who would have received this complaint from OIG went on to join $GEO’s board or C-Suite.
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Pp 9-12 are a 2010 complaint and update on torture at Krome by Doyon contractors. Doyon was one of several Native American corporate entities that operate migrant detention camps for ICE. homelandsecuritynewswire.com/native-america…
Torture retaliatory solitary,medical neglect at Krome remains. 4/
2010 OIG referred this complaint to ICE and closed it 2 days after it came in.
Fast forward three years, and Krome employees go on-record alleging criminal activity by Doyon-Akal management, implying impunity under ICE: miaminewtimes.com/news/guards-an…
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Things at Krome have changed little in the 11 years since ICE got this complaint from OIG, notwithstanding the 2011 PBNDS reforms, the 2013 on-record whistleblowing.
Here, at least, the record shows the system cannot be reformed. splcenter.org/presscenter/kr…
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Next up is a systems-level complaint by someone locked inside $GEO South Texas Detention Center in Pearsall, TX.
In response to the complainant’s statement that “ICE’s presence is close to non-existent at the complex” and that “this is an URGENT matter” OIG referred to ICE.
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CoreCivic, fka Corrections Corporation of America before Shane Bauer & @MotherJones rendered that brand toxic, appears at p. 25. A man alleged widespread abuse, including charging people for food and clothes, in 2011. $CXW faces multiple class actions over deprivation schemes.8/x
On page 39, Tennessee-based notorious prison health contractor Corizon makes its first appearance in a medical abuse and neglect allegation by a man detained for ICE in Henderson, NV.
Wonder if ICE-Office of Professional Responsibility, where OIG sent the case, did anything.8/x
Perhaps you’ve heard of Corizon . . . archive.triblive.com/news/allegheny…
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Two complaints submitted just a month apart in 2013 at ICE’s $GEO Adelanto facility foreshadow the violent use of Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) spray by guards.
OIG close both cases, which were called in by ICE’s SDDO at the facility within a day of receiving them.
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One wonders if the allegedly illegal deployments of OC Spray against people in this video, obtained by @TomDreisbach and @NPR, would have happened if ICE OPR or DHS-OIG had done more in 2013:
npr.org/2020/02/06/802…
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Here’s DHS-OIG referring a complaint to ICE-OPR about $GEO using pepper spray at its facility in Jena, LA in 2015.
5 yrs later, GEO pepper sprayed humans locked in the same facility during a meeting about #Covid per @nlanard.
motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
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Tomorrow, we’ll unpack the complaints against $GEO and its subsidiary, BI, alleging taxpayer-funded rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment of migrants in detained and e-carcerated settings. Starting with these
Until then . . .
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