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ICE prisons are structures of racism and hate. We see walls & wire, cops turning over brown and black folks to ICE; detention is hidden so you don’t know how much they make, how ppl are mistreated. But hey, no more excuses. There’s a bounty of info about how this system runs: 1/
We know and they know, that these prisons are completely unnecessary. But for the fact that detained immigrants line the pockets of local govmts and the private prison industry. 2/
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Over the last decade there have been countless reports by @ACLU, @NIJC, @DetentionWatch, @hrw, @splcenter, many others about brutal, abusive conditions, and even deaths, in these prisons. Some dating back to at least 2008: 3/aclu.org/other/aclu-rep…
Even scathing reports by @DHSOIG most recently addressing suicide risks at Adelanto, contracting and inspection failures, medical neglect, solitary confinement abuses 4/oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/…
Ppl in detention are putting their bodies on the line bc they are abused, mistreated, isolated inside. Most recently the #ElPaso9 but there is a long history of resistance by people in ICE detention calling out the abuse. 5/@NWDCResistance
We know the number of people detained is at its peak, the agency is overspending, they have no control over their contracting & inspections, they can’t keep ppl safe and treat them humanely. 6/
It was only a matter of time before they took up the call for more cages. There can be no justice in immigrant communities until we stop caging people. We need to be stronger than ever in our call to #EndDetention. /fin
