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🚨NEW: Pres. Trump's belligerent use of policing and prosecutions has already left its mark on the federal system. Over the last two years, federal incarceration and detention have grown by 12%, with immigration detention and prosecution being a main driver. 🧵
🚨NEW: ICE spends $222/day to detain each person in custody — much more than it costs to incarcerate someone in a federal prison or the U.S. Marshals detention network, to supervise them, or to release them. The rapid growth of federal detention comes at a steep financial cost.
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The federal system: A patchwork of agencies rapidly expanding federal surveillance and punishment
Because it is so fragmented, the federal system can be particularly hard to understand, which only makes it harder to change effectively through policy. We ...
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The federal systems of confinement (ICE detention, federal prisons, and US Marshals detention network) and community supervision have been changing under Trump, here’s my explanation of what is going on and things people can do to limit it. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2026/07...
The federal system: A patchwork of agencies rapidly expanding federal surveillance and punishment
Because it is so fragmented, the federal system can be particularly hard to understand, which only makes it harder to change effectively through policy. We ...
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This month @prisonpolicy.org we published an new data file with the number of people in jail, prison, and under community supervision for each state from 1978-2024. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2026/06...
Probation and parole trends by state: A look back at the data on ‘alternatives’ to incarceration
We compiled, corrected, and analyzed 45 years of state-level probation and parole data, and found that while most (but not all) states have reduced the ...
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🚨NEW: 3.5 million people are on probation or parole in the U.S. That's more than 1.5x the number of people locked up, making community supervision the leading form of correctional control. How did we get here? New data reveal how probation & parole have changed over time 🧵
🚨WEBINAR: As calls for criminal justice reform grow louder, advocates are increasingly up against "carceral humanism" – a harmful strategy that offers only the appearance of change. Get tips & tools to resist these narratives at our upcoming webinar👇 zoom.us/webinar/regi...
If you want to know where the U.S.'s priorities lie, funding for immigration policing & detention skyrocketed by $20 billion in less than 10 years. Meanwhile, funding for vital community resources–like public libraries–didn't even keep up with inflation. www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/mone...
People are uniting together, uplifting their shared values to welcome people and keep everyone safe, calling on businesses to take a stand, and demanding ICE out of their communities. 🔗Learn how to fight back against detention warehouses in our new warehouse toolkit: bit.ly/noicewarehouse
DHS Expansion of Immigration Detention into Warehouses
This is a live toolkit and will be updated as needed. Table of Contents Introduction & Background Warehouses in Context Impact on Communities National Expansion Map and Status Core Campaign Demands f...
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Here's an incredible toolkit for people working to stop ICE buying or leasing warehouses to convert to concentration camps. From the amazing gang at @detentionwatchnetwork.org Please circulate::
DHS Expansion of Immigration Detention into Warehouses
This is a live toolkit and will be updated as needed. Table of Contents Introduction & Background Warehouses in Context Impact on Communities National Expansion Map and Status Core Campaign Demands f...
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How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.
The New York Review of Books@nybooks.com · 6mo agoStuart Schrader on what Trump’s urban occupations mean for police and the unions that represent them https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/02/14/authoritarianism-from-below-trump-city-takeovers-police/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-02-14_Schrader-policing-1
“The violence we see today is a direct consequence of the $170 billion that Congress handed to Homeland Security in last year’s reconciliation bill, fueling the administration’s mass detention & deportation agenda at an unprecedented scale, “ said Setareh, from DWN in an op-ed for the @thehill.com
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🚨NEW: Mass incarceration costs the U.S. an alarming $445 billion every year. Where exactly does it all go? Follow the money with our new report 🧵 www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/mone...
There's a great new report out from @prisonpolicy.org tracking changes in criminal justice system spending. More money for policing and immigration enforcement, less for prisons and courts since 2017. @jkangbrown.bsky.social www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/mone...
NEW REPORT: Exposes years of extensive environmental hazards and carceral violence at the Glades Detention Center in #Florida. Click to read: bit.ly/4rdMhFK @afsc-org.bsky.social @aclufl.bsky.social
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Today, ICE shot & killed someone, and then said the officer was using "his training." When police point to their "training" to justify murder, you can't help but wonder – who exactly do they serve and protect?
Live updates: ICE says agent, ‘fearing for his life,’ kills woman in south Minneapolis
ICE officials say the woman was shot and killed Wednesday morning in south Minneapolis after attempting to run over agents with her car. Witnesses dispute ICE’s version of what happened. Mayor Jacob…
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@prisonpolicy.org is doing SUCH IMPORTANT work on the connections between the kidnapping of our neighbors via ICE and DHS and local police and jails. Please follow them, read their work, signal boost, and support them whenever you can. And then fight for Abolition Now!
Prison Policy Initiative@prisonpolicy.org · 8mo agoWhat's the difference between states like Florida, where ICE arrests are sky-high, and states like Illinois with much lower rates of arrests? It's all about police & jails. Arrest rates out of homes, workplaces, etc are similar – but reining in sheriffs makes all the difference.
What's the difference between states like Florida, where ICE arrests are sky-high, and states like Illinois with much lower rates of arrests? It's all about police & jails. Arrest rates out of homes, workplaces, etc are similar – but reining in sheriffs makes all the difference.
🚨Trump's deportation agenda isn't possible without the cooperation of local jails and police – and new data confirms it. Our latest briefing examines 2025 arrest data to reveal the full scope of which states have thwarted ICE's mission, and which have greatly enabled it 🧵
NEW: From the Bronx to Accra, lives are being rebuilt — or dismantled — under a U.S.–Ghana deportation pact few know exists. In Ghana, I met the people caught in between: the deported, the waiting, the afraid. Read the story: capitalbnews.org/ghana-us-dep...
Fear, Flights, and Forced Returns: How a U.S.–Ghana Deportation Pact Is Reshaping Lives
Ghanaians at home and abroad are navigating hope and an uneasy partnership between Washington and Accra.
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From @prisonpolicy.org: New analysis of government data from ICE via the Deportation Data Project shows federal agents reliant on local jails and police to reach their arrest numbers.
