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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…
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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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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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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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
“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.)
(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
🧵 #Thread: 6 mo. ago we launched a #COVID19 Hotline to document abuses in ICE prisons. Since then, we’ve received over 10k calls. We just published our latest report analyzing data from the Hotline, attorneys, advocates & media reports.
Here’s what we found 👇 #FreeThemAll
Here’s what we found 👇 #FreeThemAll
Since our last update, ICE officials announced three deaths in custody. Fernando Sabonger-Garcia; Cipriano Chavez-Alvarez; and Romien Jally.
21 people have lost their lives in ICE custody this fiscal year, the highest in 15 years.
#DetentionKills #FreeThemAll
21 people have lost their lives in ICE custody this fiscal year, the highest in 15 years.
#DetentionKills #FreeThemAll
At least 7 of the 17 people who have died in ICE custody since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in ICE detention via a transfer from state or federal jails or prisons after completing a criminal sentence or being paroled out.
Half of these deaths were people over 50
Half of these deaths were people over 50
In less than 15: @HomelandDems will hold a briefing on medical care in ICE prisons
Stream here 👇
#FreeThemAll
Stream here 👇
#FreeThemAll
@HomelandDems This briefing comes on the heels of an investigation by the committee that found widespread medical neglect & retaliatory use of solitary in ICE prisons.
#DetentionKills #FreeThemAll
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#DetentionKills #FreeThemAll
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@HomelandDems While drafting this report, @HomelandDems received our reporting on #COVID19 in ICE detention.
You can find all of our comprehensive reports here 👇
freedomforimmigrants.org/covid19
You can find all of our comprehensive reports here 👇
freedomforimmigrants.org/covid19
‼️BIG #DetentionKills news‼️
On May 15, 2017, #DACA holder Jean Jimenez died inside a solitary confinement cell @ ICE's Stewart Detention Ctr in Lumpkin, GA.
Today a federal judge DENIED ICE's attempt to dismiss his family's wrongful death suit, allows the case to proceed.
On May 15, 2017, #DACA holder Jean Jimenez died inside a solitary confinement cell @ ICE's Stewart Detention Ctr in Lumpkin, GA.
Today a federal judge DENIED ICE's attempt to dismiss his family's wrongful death suit, allows the case to proceed.
Jean's mom and step-dad are the first family of someone who died in an ICE prison under this regime to file a wrongful death lawsuit and defeat the government's effort to throw it out of court outright.
Here are some key facts from today's decision: documentcloud.org/documents/7212…
Here are some key facts from today's decision: documentcloud.org/documents/7212…
A statement from Jean's family and #DetentionKills partners will be coming soon. But for now, we are overjoyed that the American justice system has determined we can move forward in our quest to obtain #JusticeforJean and to #FreeThemAll
documentcloud.org/documents/7212…
documentcloud.org/documents/7212…
BREAKING: Adelanto Detention Center has now a #COVID19 outbreak. We heard yesterday that 32 ppl were in quarantine by noon. @ahilan_toolong & the @aclu team confirmed 38 case as of last night. This is after 300 new arrests were made by ICE in LA the last 50 days. Connect the dots
This is so heartbreaking.
ICE has refused to release ppl with disabilities and chronic medical conditions AND without criminal record.
ICE has refused to release or test ppl with symptoms claiming they do not meet the CDC requirements for testing.
ICE has refused to release ppl with disabilities and chronic medical conditions AND without criminal record.
ICE has refused to release or test ppl with symptoms claiming they do not meet the CDC requirements for testing.
ICE continues to arrest and transfer ppl to ADC from both CBP and state prisons without little protocols for monitoring ppl.
Medical staff are abusive to ppl who complain or make repeated sick calls.
#DetentionKills
Medical staff are abusive to ppl who complain or make repeated sick calls.
#DetentionKills
🧵 #Thread: 4 mo. ago we launched a #COVID19 Hotline to document abuses in ICE prisons.
Since then, we received over 10k calls.
We just published our latest report analyzing data from the Hotline & media reports.
Here’s what we found 👇 #FreeThemAll freedomforimmigrants.org/covid19
Since then, we received over 10k calls.
We just published our latest report analyzing data from the Hotline & media reports.
Here’s what we found 👇 #FreeThemAll freedomforimmigrants.org/covid19
Since our last update, ICE officials announced three deaths in custody.
Kuan Hui Lee, James Thomas Hill, Freddy Guillen Vega.
The number of in-custody deaths this year so far is double what ICE reported for all of fiscal year 2020
#DetentionKills #FreeThemAll
Kuan Hui Lee, James Thomas Hill, Freddy Guillen Vega.
The number of in-custody deaths this year so far is double what ICE reported for all of fiscal year 2020
#DetentionKills #FreeThemAll
Advocates are concerned, however, that the true death toll of #COVID19 in ICE prisons is under-counted due to lack of information regarding the fate of people exposed to #COVID19 in detention and then released.
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HAPPENING NOW: The #FourHorseman of the private prison industry are testifying before Congress on how they have responded to #COVID19 in immigrant prisons.
Follow this #thread for highlights 👇
#DetentionKills #DefundHate
homeland.house.gov/activities/hea…
Follow this #thread for highlights 👇
#DetentionKills #DefundHate
homeland.house.gov/activities/hea…
"For fiscal year 2020, Congress appropriated approx $3.1 billion for more than 45,000 single adult and family detention beds [...] Over 80% of these beds are operated by private contractors"
-@RepKathleenRice
#DefundHate #DetentionKills
-@RepKathleenRice
#DefundHate #DetentionKills
The negligence of ICE and private prison companies has resulted in two in custody deaths since the start of the #COVID19 pandemic. Congress was notified of a potential THIRD death today in Florida
This requires IMMEDIATE attention if we want to keep everyone safe #DetentionKills
This requires IMMEDIATE attention if we want to keep everyone safe #DetentionKills
Live-Tweeting today's #FourHorsemen hearing before @HomelandDems, led by Chair @RepKathleenRice
Chairwoman reveals the Committee may have learned of a THIRD #COVID19 death in Florida today.
#DetentionKills
Calls for IMMEDIATE end to transfers between facilities.
Chairwoman reveals the Committee may have learned of a THIRD #COVID19 death in Florida today.
#DetentionKills
Calls for IMMEDIATE end to transfers between facilities.
@HomelandDems @RepKathleenRice The #FourHorsemen hearing is opened by @RepClayHiggins expressing disappointment that ICE wasn't invited to the hearing. Apparently the facility contractors aren't able to adequately describe what ICE told them.
Says "Additional layer of safety measures" provided by PRR. (2)
Says "Additional layer of safety measures" provided by PRR. (2)
@HomelandDems @RepKathleenRice @RepClayHiggins @RepClayHiggins seems to be going on record in favor of subpoenaing @ICEgov to provide new information provided by contractors as a result of Chair[wo]man's "very professional document request."
Says the hearing topic is outside the Committee's jurisdiction. #FourHorsemen
Says the hearing topic is outside the Committee's jurisdiction. #FourHorsemen
#FOIAFriday
Our #DetentionKills network published #FOIA records from ICE that prove the government and its auditors have failed to accurately report and document attempts by people in custody to commit suicide in ICE jails.
Suicide is the leading cause of death in ICE custody
Our #DetentionKills network published #FOIA records from ICE that prove the government and its auditors have failed to accurately report and document attempts by people in custody to commit suicide in ICE jails.
Suicide is the leading cause of death in ICE custody
Here’s a thread on those docs, and what they mean:
Gotta admit: it’s deflating to lay all this out On Here and have the analysis get fewer impressions than snarky GIFs about the Portland Trailblazers I periodically drop into @MattArchambeau1’s feed on @YakimaAbogado’s behalf.
But good messengers don’t blame their audience. So,
But good messengers don’t blame their audience. So,
More #FOIAFoibles from ICE.
According to a response the agency provided today. there were only 2 Significant Incident Reports or Significant Event Notifications regarding suicide attempts by people imprisoned at facilities in the New Orleans Field Office from Jan-Apr 2019. 1/x
According to a response the agency provided today. there were only 2 Significant Incident Reports or Significant Event Notifications regarding suicide attempts by people imprisoned at facilities in the New Orleans Field Office from Jan-Apr 2019. 1/x
One happened at GEO's LaSalle facility on April 17, 2019 around 3pm. A Sudanese man used a razor blade to slit his wrists. He had to go to LaSalle General for sutures. Yet the report says no injuries occurred. 2/x
The other SIR was an attempted self-strangulation with a sheet by a #Cameroonian asylum-seeker on January 26 at CoreCivic's Tallahatchie facility in Tutwiler, Mississippi.
His fellow detained migrants were able to intervene and save his life.
His fellow detained migrants were able to intervene and save his life.
THREAD:
In honor of the the D's #minibus surrender & NARA decision allowing destruction of documents about abuse in ICE detention centers, #FOIA documents we recently received for a single detention center -- currently the deadliest in America -- in Stewart County, Georgia. 1/
In honor of the the D's #minibus surrender & NARA decision allowing destruction of documents about abuse in ICE detention centers, #FOIA documents we recently received for a single detention center -- currently the deadliest in America -- in Stewart County, Georgia. 1/
2/ A man calls to report suffering a neck injury at the hands of a detention officer and then not receiving proper medical care.
3/ An allegedly 2-year campaign of discrimination and harassment that includes retaliatory solitary confinement, denial of access to mail, and a failure of ICE to respond to prior complaints
Another human caged by ICE appears to have ended his life while in solitary confinement at a for-profit migrant prison, this time in Louisiana.
This would be the second known in-custody death of the fiscal year, with more than two dozen occurring since the regime took power.
This would be the second known in-custody death of the fiscal year, with more than two dozen occurring since the regime took power.
Worth noting that the existence of this facility for ICE imprisonment itself is in direct violation of the appropriations authority Congress gave to ICE when it funded detention operations.
motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
It’s worth asking ourselves what to call prison camps we send people to where they’ve committed no crime, received no due process, and have not been shown to present a flight risk, knowing some number of them will die, and thousands more will suffer
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#KillDetention
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#KillDetention
26 months.
4 lives over.
Today’s so hard for so many who’ve been screaming at the top of their lungs, lifting up well-documented, unrebutted, damning first-person accounts of the inhumanity of for-profit migrant imprisonment inside ICE’s Stewart facility in Lumpkin, Georgia.
4 lives over.
Today’s so hard for so many who’ve been screaming at the top of their lungs, lifting up well-documented, unrebutted, damning first-person accounts of the inhumanity of for-profit migrant imprisonment inside ICE’s Stewart facility in Lumpkin, Georgia.
If they’d listened to voices, processed them respectfully, and done their own discernment, the inescapable conclusion would be that Stewart is no place fit for human beings. Not yesterday, not today. Not ever.
Officials and execs see the same docs we’ve gotten and sat silent.
Officials and execs see the same docs we’ve gotten and sat silent.
Unless Stewart is closed, more will suffer. More will give up. And more will die.
Rest in Power, Pedro, Efrain, Yulio, and Jean.
#DetentionKills
#KillDetention
@ProjectSouth @ashahshahani @elrefugioga @splcenter
Rest in Power, Pedro, Efrain, Yulio, and Jean.
#DetentionKills
#KillDetention
@ProjectSouth @ashahshahani @elrefugioga @splcenter
ICE discussed cutting off visitation programs at the for-profit migrant prison in Lumpkin, GA for "known adversary" @elrefugioga, one of the only service-oriented nonprofits in Stewart, as retaliation for holding a vigil remembering the life of Jean Jimenez #DetentionKills #FOIA
Here's the Significant Incident Report (SIR) ICE officials drafted and send to HQ about the memorials seeking #JusticeforJean:
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#KillDetention
And here's ICE officials sharing a screenshot of a web portal demonstrating that, despite at least a half-dozen supervisors responding to questions from ICE HQ about Jean's mental health status, his segregation logs DO NOT note his MH diagnoses or his prior suicide attempts.
8 hrs after Jean Jimenez, a 27 year-old DREAMer who suffered from schizophrenia, died inside a solitary confinement cell at the $cxw Stewart Detention Center, @ICEgov health officials identified the problem in no uncertain terms: 1 Mental Health pro : 2000 ppl.
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#DetentionKills
5 nights before Jean died . . .
Live-Tweeting Thread:
Livestream today’s @USCCRgov hearing on #Immigration detention.
Absolutely devastating testimony so far regarding conditions in #CoreCivic’s Eloy immigrant prison. /1
Livestream today’s @USCCRgov hearing on #Immigration detention.
Absolutely devastating testimony so far regarding conditions in #CoreCivic’s Eloy immigrant prison. /1
2/ A woman imprisoned in Eloy was 7 months pregnant and losing weight. Officials said she was offered a high-protein diet. It turned out to be an extra piece of bread with cheese.
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#DetentionKills
3/ Next witness, a grandmother who traveled to Dilley, Antelope Wells, Homestead, and Tornillo with groups of concerned citizens, including @TornilloWitness, describes conditions as reminding her of Ethiopian detention camps in the 1980s. Reading letter from watchdog Josh Rubin.
