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We did a lot this year, but one of the most important things we did was sue the private prison company CoreCivic, Inc. for forcing immigrants to maintain the detention center where they're being held. #SPLCWinterReadingList.
Refuse to do it, and they're denied necessities like soap, food, and toilet paper. They're paid just $1 a day for their labor. #SPLCWinterReadingList splcenter.org/news/2018/04/1…
Our suit against CoreCivic is just one of multiple prison labor projects we undertook in 2018, and it's just one of the items on our #SPLCWinterReadingList. Our report on the poultry industry’s use of incarcerated workers is another. #BestOf2018 splcenter.org/news/2018/07/2…
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“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” Rep. Steve King said last week.

To be clear, white supremacy and white nationalism have always been “offensive.” nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/…
This was far from King's first time signaling support for white nationalism. He made white nationalist comments on CNN less than a year ago; praised an anti-Muslim figure convicted of hate speech; retweeted a neo-Nazi; and called Mexican immigrants “dirt.” cdn.americanprogress.org/content/upload…
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We’re here at the @Ctr4CHR joining the @NAACPGA, @NAACPAtlanta, @NationalSCLC and several other orgs ahead of the Georgia General Assembly calling for necessary, long overdue change—that begins with the takedown of Confederate monuments throughout the South.
There are 159 counties in Georgia. Ninety-two of them have Confederate monuments.
“This is a momentous occasion, but this is just the beginning.

“We cannot have a united country until we remove the symbols that divided this country.” —First Vice President of @NAACPAtlanta Gerald Griggs
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President Trump spoke tonight about "illegal aliens," but no human is illegal. #NoBanNoWall splcenter.org/news/2018/12/1…
It’s a myth that immigrants commit crimes at higher rates than native born Americans. It’s a myth that they hurt the economy. For the president to spread these fears tonight is not only inaccurate, but immoral. tolerance.org/magazine/sprin…
There is a humanitarian crisis at the border — one that this president’s relentless war on asylum seekers and his refusal to comply with the law have manufactured. #PresidentialAddress splcenter.org/news/2019/01/0…
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This was published back in April, but I just came across this crucial piece of reporting from @JCArbasetti and @LauraC_Moscoso about CoreCivic wanting to handle the transfer of Puerto Rican inmates to the U.S. periodismoinvestigativo.com/2018/04/compan…
In the coming weeks and months, chances are folks will become very familiar with the private prison company CoreCivic. They used to be called Corrections Corporation of America, but rebranded because CCA became synonymous with human rights violations and in-custody deaths.
The rebrand didn't help. The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, which is a family detention center that usually just gets called "Dilley," is where the child was recently detained before dying. It was run by CoreCivic.
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Prison, Victorville, CA

▪1000 Immigrant detainees sent to prison
▪656 Remain in prison
▪13 Detainees are fathers separated from their kids
▪14 Days NO change of clothes
▪4 Days NO bath
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