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The Carceral State Reborn: California's Alarming Expansion of For-Profit ICE Detention

In California, the number of active ICE detention centers has risen to eight under President Trump's administration, with the new Central Valley Annex operated by the private prison corporation GEO Group increasing detention capacity in the state to nearly 10,000 beds. This represents a shocking and dehumanizing expansion of a for-profit detention apparatus that preys on communities, tramples local oversight, and subjects vulnerable individuals to a system with a documented history of abuse and neglect, betraying the very principles of justice and liberty upon which this nation was founded.

US Politics

The Price of the Badge: How Corporate Interests Are Attempting to Buy Arizona's Top Cop

A private prison company with a billion-dollar federal detention contract and a mobile home park operator being sued for leaving families in dangerous conditions are pouring over half a million dollars into a PAC supporting Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen's campaign for Attorney General. This is a brazen and corrupt attempt by deep-pocketed special interests to purchase an Attorney General who will turn a blind eye to their abuses, undermining the rule of law and betraying the public trust for private profit.