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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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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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bad news for MN: 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.
ir.corecivic.com
"The most common thing I hear from people who are not directly targeted by the immigration assault is some version of: I want to do something. I just don’t know what." antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/what-you-c...
What You Can Do Right Now
What You Can Do Right Now
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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
from Indivisible "ALL EYES ON ICE! We need all hands on deck for our training Thursday night. Join us for the second call of our Immigrant Justice Summer Training Series. Even if you missed the first call, we need you there. Sign up at bit.ly/july23call.%22
Immigrant Justice Summer Call #2: How to Connect with Immigrant Justice Orgs in Your Community · Indivisible
The strength of any response to ICE enforcement depends on the relationships that exist before a surge hits. This call trains you on community ecosystem mapping, a structured tool for identifying who ...
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Judge tosses out federal lawsuit challenging Minnesota ‘sanctuary’ policies • Minnesota Reformer
A Trump-appointed federal judge on Monday tossed out a Department of Justice lawsuit that aimed to invalidate state and local “sanctuary” policies, which limit information-sharing and cooperation betw...
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"Since 2002, more than 1,200 counties have invested more than $42 billion to expand their carceral footprints" The U.S.'s commitment to jail construction is an absolute financial and moral failure.
The Scale of Jail Construction Across the United States, 2002–2022
Vera works closely with government and civic leaders to urgently build and improve justice systems that ensure fairness, promote safety, and strengthen…
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In 2024, 42 Prison Journalism Project contributors in 27 states described extreme temperatures behind bars for a special project on heat in prison.
Prison Journalism Project@prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 3w ago"I know it’s too hot in my prison when prisoners start checking into suicide-watch cells in our medical area. People employ various excuses, but most know they do it because the infirmaries have air conditioning."
Firefighters work heroically in Ely to help our community. Meanwhile, ICE [spineless cruel cowards] abduct construction workers. These workers were here to help the community recover from last year's storms. www.startribune.com/ice-operatio...
ICE operation scatters crowd, sends one swimming into Lake Bemidji
Bemidji police chief said he believes agents were targeting a construction site.
startribune.com
Dozens of immigrants at Miami’s Federal Detention Facility are trapped in brutal heat with no AC, sleeping in underwear, and finding roaches in their food. When one spoke out, he was thrown into solitary. Total abuse. We demand an immediate investigation and human rights NOW! 🎥 tomaskenn
Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva, 45, is the 22nd person to die in ICE custody this year alone. At least 52 people have died in ICE custody since Trump returned to office — an all-time high. Everyone who carried out this reign of terror must face consequences.
Venezuelan man becomes 22nd person to die in ICE custody this year
Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva, 45, found ‘unresponsive’ while being transferred between detention facilities in Georgia
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new from @tusk81.bsky.social: The administration is spending BILLIONS to expand and protect its mass detention system. Not to improve conditions, but to weaken oversight. "... the recent purchases in California appear to be 'a move that may serve to shield the facilities from state oversight'”
Is DHS Spending $1.5 Billion To Avoid Oversight In California? It Sure Seems Like It
Now that DHS owns two detention camps formerly belonging to private prison profiteer CoreCivic, “finding out what’s going on inside of them is likely to become harder.”
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Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.
ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer
An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.
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5-year-old Camila's crayon drawings in detention look just like my 5-year-old's drawings. We need this to end, and then we need prosecutions for everybody who had a hand in harming these families. www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
5-year-old spent 118 days on her own in federal immigration custody in CT
On any given day there are more than two dozen immigrant children detained without a parent or guardian in programs run by Connecticut nonprofits.
ctinsider.com
I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.
Opinion | ICE Is Out of Control. Here’s What to Do About It.
Congress must push back against our inhumane immigration tactics.
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Minnesota Haitians worry about what comes next as TPS protections come to an end
The Supreme Court’s June 25 ruling does not end TPS as a program, but it allows the administration to continue moving forward with ending protections for Haitians and Syrians while legal challenges co...
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Minneapolis educator pursuing lawsuit after ICE agents detained him outside school during surge
Quentin Williams is starting on what legal experts say is a long path required to file a lawsuit against the federal government. Williams, an assistant teacher at Roosevelt High School claims ICE age...
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Artists create, even during times of chaos. In response to Trump policies and ICE's incursions, arts organizations are leaning in to new ways of fostering community in ways large and small. n.pr/4wKy99Q
When life is chaos, make art
Artists create, even during times of chaos. In response to Trump policies and ICE's incursions, arts organizations are leaning in to new ways of fostering community in ways large and small.
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Twin Ports Rapid Response News 2026-07-14
We are an all-volunteer group standing in support of our immigrant family, friends, neighbors, coworkers — community members who are under attack.
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