'Karen has no criminal record. She is a grandmother who spent eight years working as an admin assistant at a primary school before her retirement...So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone'

#ice #usPol #tourism #immigration #prisonIndustrialComplex

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice

PrisonIndustrialComplex: U.S. military helping Trump to build massive network of ‘concentration camps,’ Navy contract reveals
https://therealnews.com/us-military-helping-trump-to-build-massive-network-of-concentration-camps-navy-contract-reveals

Department of Homeland Security is using a repurposed $55 billion Navy contract to convert warehouses into makeshift jails and plan sprawling tent cities in remote areas.
#MiseryIndustrialComplex

#ICE #DHS #CBS #capitalism #billionaires #corporations #IndustrialComplex #PrisonIndustrialComplex
#Christofascism #transgenocide #xenophobia #TLM #BTLM

Wealth, power, influence: ICE Detention Contractors Reaping Massive Profits
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/ice-migrant-detention-contractors-profits/

Largest immigrant deportation and prison contractors in U.S. expect epic payout

For every $1 they donated to GOP campaigns in 2024, these private companies stand to reap $11,000+ in increased *annual* revenue

#Christofascism #discrimination wedge: #transgenocide #hate
#capitalism #billionaires #corporations #PrisonIndustrialComplex
Solution: #RevolutionaryCommununism #DemocraticSocialism

🇺🇲 Feeding the fascist machine: Shadow Contractors Train ICE Attack Goons
https://www.levernews.com/shadow-contractors-are-training-ices-attack-teams

ICE spends $$$ on firearms, munitions, politically connected weapons training firms to further militarize its forces
#PrisonIndustrialComplex

ICE Detention Expands Dramatically; 70k Immigrants Now Jailed; Deaths Increase
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/14/american_immigration_council

Journalist Tests ICE Recruitment: Hired w. No Background Check
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/14/laura_jedeed_ice

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #AmericanReich
#capitalism #DemocraticSocialism

Prison Health Care Continues to Deteriorate Under Donald Trump

https://murica.website/2025/12/prison-health-care-continues-to-deteriorate-under-donald-trump/

Today in Labor History December 18, 1865: US Secretary of State William Seward proclaimed the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the USA. However, the thirteenth amendment included the following clause: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” Jim Crow laws in the past and racial profiling today result in large numbers of African Americans and poor people being incarcerated and subjected to legal slavery. Some were even rented out to the same plantations that had used chattel slaves in the past. But with the U.S. having both the world’s highest number of incarcerated people (2.1 million) and the highest incarceration rate (665 per 100,000), there are plenty of people from all ethnicities who continue to be subjected to legal slavery.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #constitution #slavery #freedom #prison #PrisonIndustrialComplex #jimcrow #racism