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If you can’t financially support your municipality without harvesting profits from BIPOC folks’ bodies — whether through private prison payoffs or through medical monetization of vulnerable populations — perhaps you should raise taxes on ppl w vacation homes and side hustles.
Telling people you’ve refused to help support, educate, and empower that their best shot at economic opportunity is to be private prison guards (w none of the public pension benefits or rights) is an admission of failure.

Caging people for profit is not in line w Christianity.
If you’re at 100% free and reduced lunch and you’re twice the state unemployment rate, a private prison isn’t going to solve your revenue problem.

Many of your residents can’t even apply for the jobs because your cops have spent years criminalizing and fining them for $$.
You seem to think there’s some magic federal wand that insulates you from the risk inherent in operating a for-profit prison:

“The company will indemnify us, it says so right here in the contract.”

Ask Eloy, AZ and Davidson County, TN and Adelanto, CA how that worked out.
Worse: Your fancy prison is spreading a deadly pandemic through your tiny community that’s already under-resourced medically.

You traded short-term budget balancing for long-term public health.

It cost the guards you profess to care about their lives. What abt their families?
Don’t think for a fucking minute we don’t understand what you’re doing to juke the population & bring more federal funds.

Some of you have more people in cages than people who voted for you in your damn local elections.

Grant $$ on the back of captive population w/ no votes.
It’s a pernicious form of voter suppression akin to the at-large systems that ruled the Jim Crow South:

Dilute the votes of the majority so a rich and privilege few can call the shots.
The thing you can’t massage your way around with oblique, anodyne-sounding PR comments is the death:

You’re killing human beings with these prisons.

You’re extrajudicially killing people locked inside using #COVID19.

You’re killing guards you won’t let wear masks.

You.

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Oct 4, 2023
Still sort of reeling from the grotesque contortion of transparency on display inside Atlanta’s City Council chamber on Monday. Once you grasp what lawyers, bureaucrats, and elected officials are doing, you’ll probably think it’s pretty gross, too. So here’s a quick explainer 🧵
To see the contradictions on display we need to understand two pieces of factual context, and view that context w/ an understanding of the purpose and text of Georgia’s Open Records law. The facts will likely be familiar if you’re seeing this tweet, so I’ll quickly rehash them.
Context 1: 23 yo Atl Police Department’s Kiran Kimbrough killed 62 year-old Deacon Johnny Hollman using a taser and physical force after Hollman called 911 for a minor traffic accident — another car collided with his. GBI opened a homicide investigation. atlpresscollective.com/2023/09/21/hol…
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#SunshineWeek 🧵on e-carceration, profiteering, and how long ICE has known about allegations and criminal convictions of its largest (and often, only) gps ankle shackle contractor, courtesy of DHS-OIG #FOIA
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Since Congress started funding “Alternatives to Detention” for migrants in the US, in the mid-2000s, ICE has received allegations of serious criminal misconduct by this contractor’s personnel. documentcloud.org/documents/2141… / 2
Allegations like this one in Miami dating back to 2007. 3/ Screenshot of April 13, 2010 Memo from DHS-OIG to ICE-OPR reScreenshot Cover page of DHS-OIG Report of Investigation on
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Mar 16, 2022
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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Jan 26, 2021
On January 25, 2020, Ben Owen died in the Baker County Jail while being imprisoned by ICE. In its mandatory report to Congress, ICE said that agents arrested Ben because he was in the U.S. without authorization. 1/4
This was a lie. Tammy filed a marriage-based green card petition on Ben's behalf before his visa expired. ICE never shared that detail with Congress. Yesterday, Ben's widow Tammy filed notice that she intends to bring suit against the United States for wrongful death. 2/4
We, the #DetentionKills Network calls on @POTUS and @AliMayorkas to bring @ICE into compliance with the law requiring the agency to provide death reports within 30 days of a tragedy. Four people have died whose deaths ICE did not provide reports on since September 2020. 3/4
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Nov 7, 2020
Someday someone’s going to write a well-received book that compiles the public statements top lawyers in this regime made and weighs them against the statements made when subject to Rule 11 in court pleadings and tell the story of the constant delta between those statements.
Im talking about political appointees who are also lawyers, defending the policies and saying things out of court, on the one hand, versus DOJ lawyers signing pleadings and lawyer who sign declarations, on the other.
You could spend an entire chapter on the lies federal courts have caught DHS in and documented and threatened to sanction them for. Judge Hatter. Hamama. The Massachusetts covid litigation. The Mesa Verde covid litigation. Fraihat. DACA. Ms. L.

So. Many. Habeas. Cases.
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Nov 7, 2020
“Wanted by ICE*”

(Just not badly enough to go to a neutral magistrate and get a warrant because that’s how much we care about the public safety mission we say we serve: We are literally not willing to just go get a warrant for a guy we put on a billboard.)
ICE pretends the Fourth Amendment has nothing to do with public safety. They want the people reading this billboard to be okay in a world where their agents can arrest anyone, anytime, anywhere. Don’t worry, though, just “bad” guys. (And some kids)
A #FOIA I’ve been meaning to do but have to admit to myself I won’t is to seek the Fugitive Operations Worksheet or Field Operation Worksheet for the FugOps teams who are supposed to be looking for guys like this man and then measure them against ICE’s effort to pick a scary face
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