@jesscraven101 Breaking: a new Public Citizen report just dropped: For-profit detention companies like GEO Group and Core Civic are paying ICE detainees $1 a day to cook, clean, and run their facilities — then threatening solitary if they refuse.
Meanwhile, GEO Group's profits jumped from $32M to $254M in one year.
More corruption, grift, and abuse from the administration who promised they’d “drain the swamp.”
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#ICE #ImmigrationDetention #GEOGroup #CoreCivic
The creator reports on a new study from Public Citizen, breaking down its findings on labor exploitation in for-profit ICE detention centers. She explains the context of the detainee population, details the 'voluntary work program' where detainees perform essential facility labor, and reveals they are paid as little as $1 per day, citing specific examples and using screenshots from the report and news articles as evidence.
BREAKING: Massive labor exploitation at ICE detention centers
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Breaking: a new Public Citizen report just dropped: For-profit detention companies like GEO Group and Core Civic are paying ICE detainees $1 a day to cook, clean, and run their facilities — then threatening solitary if they refuse.
Meanwhile, GEO Group's profits jumped from $32M to $254M in one year.
More corruption, grift, and abuse from the administration who promised they’d “drain the swamp.”
Report in first comment.
#ICE #ImmigrationDetention #GEOGroup #CoreCivic
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BREAKING: Massive labor exploitation at ICE detention centers
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Trump says he wants to deport ‘the worst of the worst,’ but ICE data shows 72% of people detained have no criminal convictions
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An estimated 86% of the more than 60,000 immigrant detainees currently held in custody are housed at detention centers run by a handful of for-profit corporations... GEO Group's profits jumped from $32 million in 2024 to more than $254 million in 2025.
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The GEO Group, Inc. logo and CoreCivic logo
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The Voluntary Work Program. All immigrant detainees are required to maintain their own individual living space... Those involved in ICE's VWP, however, perform 'tasks that are essential to the operation of the facility.'
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If they participate in ICE's Voluntary Work Program they are normally paid $1 per day regardless of the number of hours they work.
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New report from Public Citizen just dropped what it documents is one of the most straightforward cases of government enabled labor exploitation I have ever seen. It is honestly enraging. So due to Trump's mass deportation policies, there are currently more than 60,000 people being held in ICE detention centers across the country. They haven't been convicted of crimes. They're being held on civil immigration charges. Seventy percent of them have no criminal record at all and eighty six percent of them are being held in facilities run by private for profit corporations like GEO Group or CoreCivic. Those detention centers have something called a voluntary work program. Detainees cook the food, clean the facilities, do the laundry, handle maintenance, do nearly everything a paid staff would normally do, but they don't get paid like staff. They get $1 a day, no matter how many hours they worse. Sometimes nothing at all. One man reported working a full month in the kitchen and receiving $4. Better worked five weeks and got nothing. Dittinis have alleged that if
