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Their $116.5 million in profit in 2025 is nearly 70% higher than the year before. During earnings calls, analysts complained that ICE isn’t detaining people fast enough to maximize returns. This is a business that grows more profitable with every person detained. www.startribune.com/mn-operation...
DOC commissioner: Minnesota banned private prisons. ICE is bringing one back anyway.
DHS apparently plans to reopen the private, for-profit Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton as a 1,600-bed ICE detention center operated by the private prison company that owns it, DOC commission...
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The former private prison, Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Minnesota, will reopen this year as a federal immigration detention center for ICE. By Katelyn Vue
Former Minnesota prison reopening as federal immigration detention center
The former private prison, Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Minnesota, will reopen this year as a federal immigration detention center for ICE.
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"CoreCivic runs some of the country’s largest and most infamous immigrant detention centers, including the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas... Disease outbreaks, lack of medical care, inedible food and lack of outside time are common complaints " minnesotareformer.com/2026/08/04/i...
ICE, CoreCivic to open Appleton immigrant detention center this year • Minnesota Reformer
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will pay private prison company CoreCivic more than half a billion dollars to reopen a defunct 1,600-bed prison in rural western Minnesota as an immigrant detention...
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"Owner and private prison operator CoreCivic announced a five-year deal Tuesday with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to house up to 1,600 ICE detainees... In a statement, Patrick D. Swindle, CoreCivic’s CEO, said..." perfect name for the CEO ... www.startribune.com/appleton-pri...
Long-shuttered Appleton, Minn., prison to reopen for ICE detainees
The 1,600-bed prison is expected to open this fall. Contractors started repairs on the facility last year.
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CoreCivic's Appleton detention center contract is set to start next Tuesday, August 11th. There are local protests every Thursday at 5pm. Please sign this form to tell officials you DON'T approve. secure.ngpvan.com/DtScc_sVu0K1...
No ICE Detention Center in Minnesota!!
DHS/ICE expects to open a concentration camp in rural Minnesota? DHS and CoreCivic have negotiated a contract to reopen an Appleton MN facility to house up to 1,600 immigrant detainees.
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After nearly a year of debate, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has signed a deal to move into a long-closed private prison in Appleton, MN.
ICE signs deal to use Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton
After nearly a year of debate, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has signed a deal to move into a long-closed private prison in Appleton, MN.
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This is the org doing work in Western Mn to stop/slow down the re-opening of the Appleton prison as an ice detention center.
CURE@curemn.org · 2w agoICE wants to reopen Appleton’s failed private prison as a 1,600-bed detention center. CURE’s Andy Pearson and Misty Butler push back in a new Daily Yonder article: this isn’t inevitable. Appleton deserves a real say. #AppletonMN #NoICEDetention
🚨ICE has awarded CoreCivic $536.2 million to operate the Prairie Correction Facility in Appleton, Minnesota as an immigration jail. The period of performance begins August 11.
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Michigan Supreme Court Overturns Line 5 Tunnel Permit, Delivering Major Victory for Tribal Nations
Overview: The Michigan Supreme Court has overturned a key state permit for Enbridge's proposed Line 5 tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac, ruling that regulators failed to comply with Michigan envi...
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Statement from Indivisible Twin Cities secure.ngpvan.com/DtScc_sVu0K1...
No ICE Detention Center in Minnesota!!
DHS/ICE expects to open a concentration camp in rural Minnesota? DHS and CoreCivic have negotiated a contract to reopen an Appleton MN facility to house up to 1,600 immigrant detainees.
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Abolish ICE! CoreCivic just announced its new contract with ICE in Appleton will begin Aug. 11. ir.corecivic.com/news-release...
CoreCivic Announces New Contract Award At Prairie Correctional Facility | CoreCivic, Inc.
The Investor Relations website contains information about CoreCivic, Inc.'s business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts.
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Our latest newsletter is available online. Thanks for reading! ncdn.work/newsletter20...
NCDN News 2026-08-02
Protecting our community
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We’ve set a goal to raise at least $500 before August 31st, and Indivisible National will match every dollar our group raises up to $500 total between August 1st and August 31st, 2026! Make your donation here: secure.actblue.com/donate/indiv...
Submit your public comment & attend a public meeting August 5 or August 12. ncdn.work/featureE0001...
NCDN Special Features Episode 1
The Talon Mine
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"An estimated 26,000 children who entered the U.S. without parents or guardians are expected to be left without independent legal representation as soon as Monday, according to lawyers who help represent them." www.npr.org/2026/08/01/n...
More than 25,000 children lose previous legal protections, as federal contract ends
Thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children are set to lose legal representation. The federal contract that pays for legal access expired Friday.
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After significant pressure from protesters for financing private prison companies that work with ICE, Citizens Bank has divested from CoreCivic and the GEO Group. “The pressure became too much for Citizens to bear, and they had to do the right thing.”
Citizens Bank Cuts Ties to ICE Prison Companies GEO Group & CoreCivic After Grassroots De-ICE Campaign
A coalition of social justice organizations is celebrating a recent decision by Citizens Bank to divest from private prison companies that operate immigration jails for the federal government. The fin...
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“We are not terrorists, we are being terrorized."
How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa
“We are not terrorists.”
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water-rich, culturally-vital, ecologically-sensitive areas at risk of sulfide mining in northern MN Act Now! waterovernickel.com/public-comme...
“‘Should I keep paying my mortgage?’ Haitian families confront impossible choices around #TPS. As Haitian TPS nears an end, families are asking who will care for their children, whether to sell their homes and whether they can survive what comes next.” haitiantimes.com/2026/07/27/h...
'Should I keep paying my mortgage?' Haitian families confront impossible choices around TPS
Many Haitian TPS holders are beginning to grapple with the potential domino effects of TPS ending, including financial, family and mental health impact due to job loss and potential detention or depor...
haitiantimes.com
After months of protests, Citizens Bank stops lending credit to ICE contractors www.phillyvoice.com/citizens-ban...
After months of protests, Citizens Bank stops extending credit to ICE contractors
The financial group is distancing itself from CoreCivic and GEO Group, which operates Moshannon Valley Processing Center.
phillyvoice.com
Tuesday, July 28 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm Zoom fmr.org/events/webin...
Webinar: Sulfide mining’s looming threat to Minnesota and the Mississippi River
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