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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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.