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Several major corporations and contractors have faced public backlash for providing funding, technology, logistics, or services that support U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); frequently ...
aimed at companies perceived to support or his allies fall into two broad currents: organized, long-running campaigns like # that target retailers selling , and more recent, issue-specific boycotts th...
that hold the largest visible contracts with include long-established operators like and , major contractors such as , , and , and a newly prominent cohort of smaller firms winning high-value “” and l...
Public reporting and company disclosures show that both and own and control multiple facilities that are now in use or targeted for reopening, but open-source accounts vary between naming companies as...
Most immigration detention centers are not a single kind of owner: a substantial share are owned or operated by — led by and — while others are government‑owned facilities run by federal, state or loc...
The reporting and analyses conflict: some sources say the Trump administration’s 2025 budget and reconciliation actions directed toward immigration enforcement broadly, while other pieces specify smal...
Federal procurement records and contemporaneous reporting show a clear list of facility contracts awarded to or publicly announced by the two largest private prison operators in 2025: ’s 1,000‑bed in ...
The 2025 budget surge funneled tens of billions of dollars into ICE’s enforcement and detention missions, and the early spending went overwhelmingly to large private detention firms and a cluster of s...
Reporting since 2020 has identified a small number of named ICE-associated personnel whose ties to white‑supremacist or extremist networks were publicly alleged and—at least in some cases—triggered in...
reopened and expanded family detention facilities in in 2014 chiefly as an operational response to a sudden surge of asylum-seeking families from that overwhelmed border processing and shelter capacit...
US immigration detention and employer-run work camps are described in recent reporting and legal documents as expansive and often abusive: ICE operated in roughly 389 facilities as of February 2025 wh...
Private contractors are embedded across ’s detention and removal apparatus: they build and operate detention beds, provide medical, laboratory, transport and surveillance services, and are now being p...
Private prisons generate profit primarily by contracting with government agencies for per‑bed or per‑diem payments, cutting operating costs (staffing, services, training), and expanding market share t...
The largest for are the traditional private‑prison operators—led by and —while a separate group of logistics, surveillance and services firms hold the largest transport, monitoring and support awards;...
Reports from multiple outlets in 2025 document children in ICE custody facing shortages of clean drinking water, delayed or denied medical care, poor hygiene, overcrowding and prolonged stays beyond e...
There is no single, authoritative count of “the number of lawsuits against ICE” in the available reporting; recent coverage documents multiple, distinct lawsuits and at least several class actions nat...
in the provided reporting shows a sustained, industry-wide pullout of private prison firms from contracts; instead, the dominant private operators— and —have continued to hold and even seek new ICE wo...
Since passage of the 2025 “One Big, Beautiful Bill” (also reported as H.R. 1 or the 2025 reconciliation bill), reporting shows the primary private prison companies that have won new or expanded ICE de...
Since 2010 there has been a persistent stream of allegations that , contract guards and medical staff sexually abused people in custody, prompting a mix of civil lawsuits, criminal complaints and admi...
operates a sprawling, decentralized detention system composed of federally run Service Processing Centers, hundreds of local jails and county lockups that house ICE detainees under contract, and priva...