News & Commentary about Privatized Immigration Detention
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![Protestors march in front of the ICE Company, The Geo Group building, demanding the end of private prisons.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2023/08/anti-private-prison-protest-geo-b-400x266.jpg)
Aug 7, 2023
Unchecked Growth: Private Prison Corporations and Immigration Detention, Three Years Into the Biden Administration
![GEO and ICE grievance boxes at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2022/01/GEO_Blog-400x266.jpg)
Jan 12, 2022
Two-Thirds of Voters Want to Stop the Expansion of For-Profit Immigrant Detention
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Oct 28, 2021
The Biden Administration's Immigration Double Talk
![Empty cell at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/10/PRISON-400x266.jpg)
Oct 5, 2021
More of the Same: Private Prison Corporations and Immigration Detention Under the Biden Administration
![A screenshot of surveillance video taken shortly before men detained at the Torrance County were pepper-sprayed for engaging in a peaceful hunger strike](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/09/Regular-ACLU-NM-400x266.jpg)
Sep 28, 2021
Understaffed, Unsanitary ICE Facility in New Mexico Fails Annual Inspection
![Detainees walk past a map of the world in a hallway of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/11/WEB20-Immigrant-Detention-Center-WordPress-1110x740-1-400x266.jpg)
Nov 30, 2020
The Questions You Probably THINK You Know the Answer to — But Likely Don’t — About ICE Detention
![A detainee sits on a bunk in a women's area at an immigration detention center.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/09/Repro-ICE-Detention-Header-Image-400x266.jpg)
Sep 23, 2020
Reproductive Abuse is Rampant in the Immigration Detention System
![Collage of seven immigrants who share their experiences of being detained during the COVID-19 crisis.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/08/Immigrant-Portraits-Header-400x266.jpg)
Aug 24, 2020
What's it Like to be in Immigration Lockup During a Pandemic?
![A detainee lays on a bunk in a pod at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga. As of November 2019, 1,625 male detainees were said to be held at the center by ICE.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/06/Report-Detention-Blog-Header-Image-400x266.jpg)
Jun 29, 2020
DHS Watchdog Confirms: ICE is Failing to Protect Detained People From COVID
![A woman drives in a caravan protesting conditions detainees face in ICE detention centers.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/05/FOIA-Blog-Header-Image-400x266.jpg)
May 22, 2020
ICE’s Lack of Transparency About COVID-19 in Detention Will Cost Lives