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‘Unbearable’: How ICE Is Locking More Immigrants in Solitary Under Trump

migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · 23d

Freedom for Immigrants has long documented abuse of solitary in immigration detention. It's frequently used by officials inside immigration prisons as a means of coercion, retaliation, and medical abuse.

Read the full story: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/16/t...

A mother of three said she hallucinated after weeks in an ICE segregation cell in Louisiana. She’s one of thousands now facing the psychological toll of isolation.

www.themarshallproject.org

migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · 23d

As our Organizing Director Amanda Díaz shared with The Marshall Project and Univision, the irreparable harm of solitary confinement is only getting worse with zero accountability in the system: “What’s really scary right now is there’s no third-party witnesses to what’s happening inside."

‘Unbearable’: How ICE Is Locking More Immigrants in Solitary Under Trump

migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · 23d

ICE is subjecting a growing number of our community members to solitary confinement — a known weapon of psychological torture — inside secretive immigration detention centers.

Read: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/16/t...

A mother of three said she hallucinated after weeks in an ICE segregation cell in Louisiana. She’s one of thousands now facing the psychological toll of isolation.

www.themarshallproject.org

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migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · 25d

Read the full statement: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...

Private Prison Corporation Defying California Law at Unpermitted Immigration Detention Center — Freedom for Immigrants

CALIFORNIA CITY, Calif. — Mega prison corporation CoreCivic is detaining people in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Marshals Service at the California City Correct...

Private Prison Corporation Defying California Law at Unpermitted Immigration Detention Center — Freedom for Immigrants

migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · 25d

"CoreCivic must not be allowed to continue operating outside legal and ethical boundaries. We demand transparency, the enforcement of city and state laws, and the immediate closure of the CCCF. CoreCivic is subject to California laws and city laws, just as any other entity."

CALIFORNIA CITY, Calif. — Mega prison corporation CoreCivic is detaining people in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Marshals Service at the California City Correct...

migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · 25d

“CoreCivic’s operation of the California City Correctional Center is a direct threat to human rights, public safety, and the values we hold as Californians," said Amanda Díaz, Organizing Director with Freedom for Immigrants (FFI), in a statement demanding action from local officials.

migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · 25d

CoreCivic also appears to be operating the facility in violation of state law, Senate Bill 29, which prohibits local governments from issuing building permits for privately-run immigration detention centers without first providing 180 days public notice and holding at least 2 public hearings.

migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · 25d

City officials previously alerted CoreCivic that the city found serious safety concerns at the prison, including a failed fire department inspection, and that the facility could not legally operate in the city.

migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · 25d

Mega prison corporation CoreCivic is detaining people in the custody of ICE and the U.S. Marshals Service at the prison despite its failure to comply with California law and obtain the required city permits.

Private Prison Corporation Defying California Law at Unpermitted Immigration Detention Center — Freedom for Immigrants

migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · 25d

🚨🚨 In the roughly two weeks since the California City Correctional Facility secretly opened as an immigration detention center without proper permits, roughly 500 people are already detained in dangerous conditions.

Our statement: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...

CALIFORNIA CITY, Calif. — Mega prison corporation CoreCivic is detaining people in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Marshals Service at the California City Correct...

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migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · Sep 11

We must shut down Angola once and for all — not just for ICE, but for everyone! #ShutDownAngola #AbolishICE

migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · Sep 11

"There is perhaps no more singular site where past and present are indistinguishable, where the systematized degradation of Black people has been reinvented over the centuries — from plantation, to forced labor camp, and now detention — always in service of white supremacy and anti-Blackness."

FFI: Shut Down Angola — for ICE, for Everyone! — Freedom for Immigrants

migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · Sep 11

“Immigration detention functions as an expansion of America’s racist prison system and is inherently anti-Black," says FFI Executive Director Laura Hernández in a new statement responding to the Trump admin's use of the infamous Angola prison for ICE.
www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...

NEW ORLEANS — Following the Trump administration’s announcement that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will begin detaining people at the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary as a tactic t...

‘Caged in Cyber Prison’: New Report Sheds Light on Harms of Federal Government’s Shackling of Immigrants — Freedom for Immigrants

migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · Aug 11

Our previous study on shackling found pervasive physical and mental health harms, including 1 in 5 shackled people reporting electric shocks.

Learn more:
www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...

In new study, hundreds of immigrants reveal how electronic ankle shackling is experienced as another form of detention WASHINGTON, D.C. – The federal government’s use of electronic ankle “monitoring...

migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · Aug 11

“This will be a tool used to extend the reach of the government from just the folks it can manage to put in physical detention to an additional hundreds of thousands more that it can surveil," said Rivera.

ICE moves to shackle some 180,000 immigrants with GPS ankle monitors

migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · Aug 11

More ICE ankle shackling = more harm, more enforcement. Not freedom.

“It’s designed to turn their own communities and homes into digital cages,” said Laura Rivera of @justfutureslaw.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

A June 9 memo directed ICE field officers to significantly expand the number of immigrants under round-the-clock surveillance.

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · Jul 30

🚨NEW: Local jails & police departments are playing a key role in Trump’s mass arrest & deportation agenda

The actual scope of this collaboration – and the true scale of immigrant arrests and detentions – has not been publicly available, until now 🧵

Hiding in Plain Sight: How local jails obscure and facilitate mass deportation under Trump

www.prisonpolicy.org

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migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · Jul 29

Is your loved one lost in immigration detention? See our full toolkit here: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/toolkit-lost...

¿Su ser querido se perdió en un centro de detención migratoria? Vea nuestro kit de herramientas completo aquí: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/instructivo-...

Project Keep Away — Freedom for Immigrants

migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · Jul 22

“If we know our rights and we know how to navigate a situation, we’re less likely to harm ourselves inadvertently in the process,” she said. “Knowledge is power.”

Learn more about Project Keep Away: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/project-keep...

New helpline aims to help incarcerated people evade the ‘prison-to-ICE deportation pipeline’

migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · Jul 22

Our executive director Laura Hernández recently spoke with @prismreports.org for a new feature on our Project Keep Away initiative!

We're empowering our community to fight the prison-to-ICE pipeline from within as we continue to fight against mass criminalization.

prismreports.org/2025/07/17/h...

Freedom for Immigrants recently launched Project Keep Away, a first-of-its-kind hotline, in two California women’s prisons

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migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · Jul 21

The starting salary is $65,000, and this role can be based remotely anywhere in the U.S. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

migrantfreedom.bsky.social @migrantfreedom.bsky.social · Jul 21

Lived experience in the immigration or incarceration systems is more important than years of professional experience. Candidates who have been directly impacted by immigration detention, mass incarceration, and/or the immigration system are highly encouraged to apply.