GEO Group Is Fighting to Pay ICE Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work
https://www.propublica.org/article/geo-group-ice-detainees-wage #capitalism #prison
May be useful to know where you and I may end up soon, as more people in the US are taken by the government. Cecot is a prison in El Salvador the US government has already sent ~250 people from the US to against the order of a federal judge, without charges filed, with no trials nor due process.
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Sept organisations, dont la #LDH, saisissent le Conseil d’État afin de faire suspendre et annuler l’interdiction des activités « ludiques ou provocantes » en #prison. Le droit de toute personne détenue à la #réinsertion doit impérativement être garanti.
https://www.ldh-france.org/suppression-dactivites-en-prison-une-action-en-justice-pour-sauvegarder-le-droit-a-la-reinsertion/
They were not DEPORTED. Deported means sending them back to their country of origin. These people were sent to a maximum security #prison in #ElSalvador, without any #DueProcess or any analysis as to whether they feared harm there.
Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a #deportation; it's something else entirely.
Dispatch from the inside: A prisoner in solitary watches as guards use Tasers on a naked, mentally-ill woman in a shower, and reflects on their increasingly brutal use in the #Texas correctional system. https://www.texasobserver.org/an-inside-look-at-taser-use-in-texas-prison/
“In solitary confinement, many prisoners suffer from mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar, and psychosis that are exacerbated by prolonged isolation. Those suffering from schizophrenia and other mental diseases are target practice for the Tasers on a daily basis.” https://www.texasobserver.org/an-inside-look-at-taser-use-in-texas-prison/
"Both groups were surprised that they had so much in common. The condemned women were astonished that the nuns had chosen to live a life nearly as confined as their own, in rooms that they, too, called 'cells.'"
Lawrence Wright for The New Yorker: https://longreads.com/2025/03/13/the-nuns-trying-to-save-the-women-on-texass-death-row
A proposed new law in Texas, by Republican Tom Oliverson, would make it illegal in that state to identify as trans, which he's calling "Gender Identity Fraud." The law would punish people who identify as trans with up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Probably not long before Trump tries to do the same on a federal level. Whoops, he kinda already did with passports.
And with his illegal transferring of trans women prisoners into male prisons, in violation of several court orders. There are already reports of sexual assaults against these women.
Remember, first they came for the trans folks, and undocumented immigrants, and people didn't speak up because they weren't one of them.
Then they came for documented immigrants and those with legal residency because they spoke out against the Genocide in Gaza; as well as cis women of color, because they didn't conform to white, bourgeois ideals of femininity.
No one is free unless we ALL are free.
This is Mahmoud Khalil. He graduated from a leadership program at Columbia University in December, and is still in university housing. He's married, and his wife is eight months pregnant. Mahmoud is passionate about education, and has had a variety of jobs involving education and disadvantaged youth. He's particularly interested in creating programs that help educate out-of-school youth in developing countries.
Mahmoud has a green card. He is a lawful, permanent resident of the United States. Remember that, it's going to be important in what's about to happen.
Last night (Saturday) as Mahmoud and his wife walked into their university-owned apartment building, two men in plain clothes slipped in the door behind them.
The men claimed they were ICE agents. They also claimed that they had a warrant for Mahmoud's arrest on their phone, and that his student visa was being revoked.
Reminder: Mahmoud has a green card. He's no longer on a student visa.
Mahmoud told them he had a green card, and his wife went up to their apartment to get it. When she returned, the agents, confused, made a phone call where the agents were told "we're revoking that too."
The agents refused to give Mahmoud's wife a reason why he was being detained. When Mahmoud's lawyer called, ICE refused to say why Mahmoud was being detained and that his "student visa was revoked." When the lawyer (again) pointed out that he had a green card, ICE representatives said that also would be revoked.
You may be wondering, "Hey, isn't it illegal for ICE to come onto private property -- the university -- without showing a warrant to the university for the arrest? Wouldn't the warrant necessarily say something about why he was being arrested?"
Great question. Columbia University has publicly said that ICE requires a warrant to enter non-public areas of campus (like housing), but also as of the moment has refused to answer whether ICE contacted them before slipping into the apartment building behind Mahmoud and his wife.
Meanwhile: Mahmoud has been sent to a for-profit prison in New Jersey with no official charges.
Nevertheless, we know why Mahmoud was arrested.
Mahmoud has been involved in peaceful protests at the university, asking that the school stop investing in weapons manufacturing and, in particular, that the school stop investing in companies that are helping to fund the killing of people in Gaza.
So, just to make this very clear and simple: A lawful, permanent resident of the United States has been arrested for exercising his freedom of speech.
The US government doesn't like some of his OPINIONS and so they have arrested him and are making plans to deport him.
Maybe you don't like Mahmoud's opinions. Maybe you don't agree with him. Fine. But the point is: the US government is arresting LEGAL IMMIGRANTS -- PEOPLE WITH GREEN CARDS -- for *exercising their freedom of speech*.
This is not the behavior of a nation that is the "land of the free and the home of the brave." It's an act of profound cowardice and an arbitrary and cruel exercise of power.
ETA: Mahmoud's wife, an American citizen, attempted to see him at the New Jersey facility today and has been told that he's not there. His lawyer says he may be as far away as Louisiana, but the point is this: he's now not only been "detained" without charges, but neither his wife nor his lawyer know where the US government is holding him.
Here is the petition:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-the-immediate-release-of-columbia-student-pro-palestine-advocate-mahmoud-khalil-from-dhs-detention?source=direct_link
Elle a osé le dire: “Il y a une pièce qui était un ancien cachot où, autrefois, le président de séance pouvait enfermer des députés.", rappelle Yaël Braun-Pivet dans Ouest-France. Une cellule, utilisée pour la dernière fois au 19è siècle, et redécouverte lors de travaux en 2010. Ah, c'était le bon temps. La pièce a depuis été convertie en bureaux, occupés par des députés de droite. Un choix prémonitoire, au regard de la situation du clan Sarkozy...
Hmmm.... so the Govt's answer to extreme workloads for probation officers, is not to invest in more staff but rather to cut provision of rehabilitation programmes & lower the grade of staff that deal with sex offenders (in England & Wales).
This looks like yet another case of the Govt. knowing the cost of everything but the value of nothing... the social costs of this sort of this sort of myopic politics are all too predictable!
We see so many reports about israeli captives but Palestinian captives and prisoners are another, non viral, story. The literally #warcrimes against health sector and personnel of #Gaza are still ignored by international community.
"Many days I was tied to a chair in the interrogation room for maybe 15 hours. I was not allowed to sleep or eat or drink. They tied my arms to the chair very painfully and when they were beating me they would put their hands or legs on my chest to bend my back."
"Throughout this period, while we were being transferred, we were given severe, brutal beatings all over our bodies. I suffered bone fractures on my right side, which affected me greatly all the way through the first three or four months of detention. I never got any medical care."
"They asked me my name and my profession and when I said I was a doctor they handcuffed and blindfolded me....We were all put in a transport vehicle where we were beaten with sticks. They urinated on us."
"I spent almost three months in Ofer. The food they gave us were small pieces of bread with a small amount of yoghurt and a spoon of jam."
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/26/testimony-of-gaza-doctors-israel-prison
#prison #IsraelWarCrimes #genocide #HumanRights #zioNaZis
Jailhouse snitch testimony is considered a red flag by many legal experts. According to the National Registry of Exonerations, 256 people who have been exonerated of felonies in the United States since 1989 were convicted in a case using jailhouse informant testimony. Sixteen were from #Texas. https://www.texasobserver.org/david-wood-execution-desert-killer/
American prisons run on forced labor. For @bolts, historian Robert Chase answered reader questions about the legal basis for paying incarcerated people below minimum wage, whether the Americans with Disabilities Act applies in these circumstances, who has the authority to stop prison labor, and more.
https://boltsmag.org/the-past-and-present-of-prison-labor-your-questions-answered/
Court filings reveal a bombshell: A former cellmate of one of the informants said he knows that the story the state used to convict Wood—the purported jailhouse confession—was made up with the help of El Paso police.
https://www.texasobserver.org/david-wood-execution-desert-killer/
Salut mastodon!
Je me constitue une petite bibliothèque critique sur le quaternaire* #police / #Justice / #psychiatrie / #prison et j'aimerais savoir quels sont les livres & zines que vous, vous y mettriez.
Je dis critique parce que tout n'est pas #antiCarcéral #antiPénaliste #antiPsy mais ça reste l'idée. Pour la justice, les alternatives m'intéressent aussi.
Je recherche très fort des critiques du travail social (assistance sociale, éduc spé...). Les critiques des autres lieux d'enfermement (je compte les CRA dans les prisons, mais je pense aux institutions pour personnes handicapées par exemple, et sans doute à plein de choses que j'ignore) m'intéressent aussi.
Je lis en français et modérément en anglais.
*apparemment c'est comme ça qu'on dit pour 4
