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Saturday, August 19th, 2023

New Jersey Activists Won a Ban on Private Prisons, Now Biden Wants to Reverse It

Author:     Catalina Adorno & Li Adorno
Source:     truthout
Publication Date:     August 14, 2023
 Link: New Jersey Activists Won a Ban on Private Prisons, Now Biden Wants to Reverse It
Stephan:  

The United States has the world’s largest gulag (see SR archive), over two million men and women are incarcerated in this country, and there is an overwhelming racial bias in this population; far more men and women of color than Whites. I think this is a national shame, and the worst of the worse are the private prisons, corporations that get paid to warehouse human beings, often under intolerable circumstances. When Biden came into office he promised, ““There should be no private prisons, period, none, period…. They should not exist. And we are working to close all of them.” Sadly, his words have not been actualized, quite the contrary, as this article describes.

President Biden walking on the grounds of the White House Credit: Anna Moneymaker / Getty

There should be no private prisons, period, none, period. That’s what they’re talking about — private detention centers. They should not exist. And we are working to close all of them.” That’s what President Joe Biden said during an April 2021 speech in Georgia, where he found himself confronted by immigrant rights activists.

Two years later, it’s clear that those were just empty words: The Biden administration is now throwing its support behind a CoreCivic lawsuit in New Jersey claiming that a 2021 state law prohibiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contracts with private prisons is unconstitutional. ICE and the Biden administration are conspiring with CoreCivic, one of the nation’s largest private jailers, to extend the contract of a converted warehouse immigrant detention jail with nearly 30 years of documented abuse.

Today, as a court decides the case, people from across New Jersey are gathering outside the courthouse in Trenton to stand up against CoreCivic, ICE and the Biden administration.

Cruelty at Elizabeth Detention Center

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2 Comments

  1. S B on Sunday, August 20, 2023 at 7:50 am

    Bad Bad Bygone

  2. Albus Eddie on Monday, August 21, 2023 at 9:55 am

    What a wonderful article. It demonstrates the contrast between the rhetoric used by politicians to get elected vs. their actual behavior when in office. I feel bad for Joe Biden. When you’re in charge of a world wide empire the wealth flows to the center, and you have to keep those from the outside who are flooding to the center in search of opportunity under control. In a neoliberal economic system what better way to accomplish this than using the profit motive? He is an a bad position as a manager. The article does go to prove the lessons learned during Watergate many years ago: Follow the money.