"We are being tortured physically and psychologically; deaf, mute, blind, elderly persons, and pregnant women...are not receiving proper medical attention," Delaney Hall ICE prisoners write
There has been a GEO Group detention center in Tacoma, WA for several years now, and EVERY year there's a hunger strike. There are reports of the food making some people sick, of dead bugs in the food, not being sent for medical treatment or sent too late, etc. Recently, the State of Washington has sued GEO over the fact that the State Dept of Health has attempted to visit the center 10 TIMES, and been refused entry. This week GEO group attempted to settle the case by saying that they would allow the Health Dept in, but they needed prior notice at least 2 weeks in advance of their visit....the State has not agreed. They want the visits to be at completely random times so they can see true conditions. The suit goes on. The GEO detention center is like a huge boil on the body of Wash State.
And I've read GEO Group's glowing reports about itself and its services online -- it's all BS.
I don’t understand how GEO gets a say in the matter. I don’t see how congress or states have a problem just filling a warrant and going in with cops if need be.
All these private prison companies, act like most of our corporations these days - it's all about them; we the People don't have a say in how they operate. And with this Republican Congressional majority, well, they (the Repubs) LIKE it this way.
Yeah, but these companies are handling human beings. There *have to be some serious laws about that. (There are.) And some oversight. You’re right, of course, the protection seems to come from Republican powers that be.
Oh, also....the detainees have mandatory cleaning duties in the Center - bathrooms, holding rooms, hallways, etc. The last time I heard about this the detainees weren't receiving ANY pay at all for the cleaning.
Every member of Congress should be sounding the alarm about these concentration/torture an and laws need passing that no taxpayer dollars, not a cent, goes to these private prison groups like Geo Group, etc. These hellhole, torture, death, concentration camps need to be shut down. How would anyone like to be kept in captivity and be fed and supervised by violent, hateful, psychopathic, Jan. 6th criminals who were pardoned by Trump!?
My heart breaks. I have always thought that humanity leaned towards love but I now know it is the exact opposite of that. Our government is rapidly destroying our nation from both within and without while attempting to break our entire sense of love, unity, charity, freedom, and intelligence. I never in my entire life believed we would build concentration camps in this nation. I became a true patriot when my fourth grade teacher told us that America was such a great country we even took care of those who could not care for themselves. That is the gospel of love I learned in Sunday School along with, “Red and yellow, black and white, all are precious in His sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world.” We’re not in Kansas anymore.
Every member of Congress should be sounding the alarm about these concentration/torture camps. Everyone who is not a criminal should be released to apply or reapply for asylum. No more prison for profit companies! New laws need passing that enforce humane standards, no taxpayer dollars, not a cent, should go to these private prison groups like Geo Group, etc. These hellhole, torture, death, concentration camps need to be shut down. How would anyone like to be kept in captivity and be fed and supervised by violent, hateful, psychopathic, Jan. 6th criminals who were pardoned by Trump!?
Write to your Congressman! Get a group to write, email, text, call, visit their local offices too. That goes for state as well as national legislators. Particularly if there are sites in your state or area. Join DEFIANCE.COM they have all kinds of ideas that can be applied to this situation too. If you have a college of any kind near you it is a great place to hand out leaflets with info. like in this article to recruit others to help. Good luck.😄
"We are being tortured physically and psychologically; deaf, mute, blind, elderly persons and pregnant women...are not receiving proper medical attention, " Delaney Hall ICE prisoners write..."
We privileged (if being subjected to sadistic mind games by our capitalist betters) in the US MUST NOT EVER use the word "torture" without legit reason (such as our side using it). Moreover, we could all use some face or ear to brain time with an American not much sought out by U.S. media, the Moonie Cult survivor who got out with help and has spent the rest of his life formally studying TORTURE along with more subtle MIND CONTROL techniques and helping create the formal field of academic studies and DEPROGRAMMING of Cult survivors, namely Prof Dr Steven Hassan and the institute he helped establish namely FREEDOM OF MIND:
I never did choose to join such a cult as the Moonies, although I cannot ever be grateful enough for the Bay Area friends who led me to the work of this man Steven Hassan, who had been a Queens College student, met himself a group of Multi-Level Marketing members at an impressionable age and point in his student life and was lured into the MLM practices of the middle management levels of the Entrepreneur Rev. Moon and who through enlightened and friendship intervention left that org classified a non-profit established 'faith', since then drawing not only on his own experiences but those entire divisions of Multi-Level Marketing dot coms that often began as dot orgs such as the US Federal Intel studies sections formally and trains in, namely the removal of FREEDOM OF MIND.
It helps to also know where the Korean Rev. Moon, cult savant of The Moonies dba Unification Church LLC went looking when he built his own Multi-Level Marketing 'Religion' a la Scientology: Nothing illegal by-the-way about the capitalist God child defined thusly by Wikipedia (for the benefit of our capitalist betters):
By the time I was an undergraduate at U.C.-Berkeley and living in the U.S. hub of this MLM (Multi Level Marketing phenomenon then going under the tax shelter of being a non-profit organization) with friends lost to the local Church of Scientology as well as some lesser known MLM start-up platforms (some masquerading more convincingly as sales marketing corporations such as AMWAY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway
Meanwhile other such once reputable orgs turned dot coms succeeded in being granted non-profit title as therapeutic organizations in the early wave of the descendants of the 1960's Tidal Deluge of what were at first legit Drug Rehab Counseling Centers and orgs such as SYNANON. Read the books on SYNANON to study how the Amway Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) business boom transmogrified from Drug Rehab into Cults masquerading as Drug Rehab Centers.
At the time I was studying these new groups in an undergraduate inter-disciplinary course at U.C.-Berkeley where the pioneers of the field of Cultic Studies were bringing together de-classified techniques from Korean and U.S. Cold War mind-control principles and techniques after a spate of news headline crime stories involving some recruiters for these organizations that did seek some Marketing advantages over the stiff competition for these alternatives to the Spiritualism craze that was blossoming well before the Rev Moon (or Amway) were perfecting the art of 'selling healthier lives' via MLM practices and procedures. Being a college student and then migrant to northern California it was merely fortuitous that I happened into some Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology inter-disciplinary courses being taught by the students of the first wave of the founding doyenne of the academic field, Dr Margaret Singer who was based at U.C.-Berkeley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Singer
Purely happenstance that some of Dr Singer's more gifted students were teaching the intro courses on Cults and Mind Control Practices and Techniques. I will be grateful to such U.C.-Berkeley profs such as Richard Ofshe who like the former Moonie-turned academic and organization founder of FREEDOM OF MIND, Steven Hassan happened to be Queens, NY working class kids with curiosities that led them to these very 1960's, 70's, 80's, 90's new fields of study as alternative press journalists had created some general public awareness of the dangers of charismatic allegedly spiritual hucksters which led to the debunking journalists who pulled the mask off of SYNANON during its transformation from laudable alcoholic rehab center in Santa Monica to full-fledged authoritarian cult under the former alcoholic then turned charismatic and clever while to many the legendary Multi Level Marketing entrepreneur Chuck Dederich.
One of my profs at U.C.-Berkeley in the 80's had earlier been part of the alternative press investigative team that helped break the ongoing investigation into and study of SYNANON. I wholeheartedly recommend the immensely helpful and in my case perhaps life-saving book
Horrific… somebody tell us what actions we can take… my Georgia reps are worthless cretinous life forms.
This is torture. These are concentration camps
There has been a GEO Group detention center in Tacoma, WA for several years now, and EVERY year there's a hunger strike. There are reports of the food making some people sick, of dead bugs in the food, not being sent for medical treatment or sent too late, etc. Recently, the State of Washington has sued GEO over the fact that the State Dept of Health has attempted to visit the center 10 TIMES, and been refused entry. This week GEO group attempted to settle the case by saying that they would allow the Health Dept in, but they needed prior notice at least 2 weeks in advance of their visit....the State has not agreed. They want the visits to be at completely random times so they can see true conditions. The suit goes on. The GEO detention center is like a huge boil on the body of Wash State.
And I've read GEO Group's glowing reports about itself and its services online -- it's all BS.
I don’t understand how GEO gets a say in the matter. I don’t see how congress or states have a problem just filling a warrant and going in with cops if need be.
All these private prison companies, act like most of our corporations these days - it's all about them; we the People don't have a say in how they operate. And with this Republican Congressional majority, well, they (the Repubs) LIKE it this way.
Yeah, but these companies are handling human beings. There *have to be some serious laws about that. (There are.) And some oversight. You’re right, of course, the protection seems to come from Republican powers that be.
Oh, also....the detainees have mandatory cleaning duties in the Center - bathrooms, holding rooms, hallways, etc. The last time I heard about this the detainees weren't receiving ANY pay at all for the cleaning.
Slavery.
True. Unlike people on the outside, who are being turned into wage slaves.
Every member of Congress should be sounding the alarm about these concentration/torture an and laws need passing that no taxpayer dollars, not a cent, goes to these private prison groups like Geo Group, etc. These hellhole, torture, death, concentration camps need to be shut down. How would anyone like to be kept in captivity and be fed and supervised by violent, hateful, psychopathic, Jan. 6th criminals who were pardoned by Trump!?
Who did the letter go to? It needs to be seen by ALL representatives and the ACLU as well
My heart breaks. I have always thought that humanity leaned towards love but I now know it is the exact opposite of that. Our government is rapidly destroying our nation from both within and without while attempting to break our entire sense of love, unity, charity, freedom, and intelligence. I never in my entire life believed we would build concentration camps in this nation. I became a true patriot when my fourth grade teacher told us that America was such a great country we even took care of those who could not care for themselves. That is the gospel of love I learned in Sunday School along with, “Red and yellow, black and white, all are precious in His sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world.” We’re not in Kansas anymore.
Every member of Congress should be sounding the alarm about these concentration/torture camps. Everyone who is not a criminal should be released to apply or reapply for asylum. No more prison for profit companies! New laws need passing that enforce humane standards, no taxpayer dollars, not a cent, should go to these private prison groups like Geo Group, etc. These hellhole, torture, death, concentration camps need to be shut down. How would anyone like to be kept in captivity and be fed and supervised by violent, hateful, psychopathic, Jan. 6th criminals who were pardoned by Trump!?
This is blatant fascism. How long will America let this go on? Land of the free and home of the brave? Not hardly.
What happens when you criminally cross a nation's border?
Thank you for sticking with this reporting. It must be taking a toll on you. What can we do besides being a paid subscriber?
Write to your Congressman! Get a group to write, email, text, call, visit their local offices too. That goes for state as well as national legislators. Particularly if there are sites in your state or area. Join DEFIANCE.COM they have all kinds of ideas that can be applied to this situation too. If you have a college of any kind near you it is a great place to hand out leaflets with info. like in this article to recruit others to help. Good luck.😄
Thank you for the information. I’ve been writing emails but now I’ll start calling. Already member of Defiance and they have something every week.
"We are being tortured physically and psychologically; deaf, mute, blind, elderly persons and pregnant women...are not receiving proper medical attention, " Delaney Hall ICE prisoners write..."
We privileged (if being subjected to sadistic mind games by our capitalist betters) in the US MUST NOT EVER use the word "torture" without legit reason (such as our side using it). Moreover, we could all use some face or ear to brain time with an American not much sought out by U.S. media, the Moonie Cult survivor who got out with help and has spent the rest of his life formally studying TORTURE along with more subtle MIND CONTROL techniques and helping create the formal field of academic studies and DEPROGRAMMING of Cult survivors, namely Prof Dr Steven Hassan and the institute he helped establish namely FREEDOM OF MIND:
https://freedomofmind.com/about/
I never did choose to join such a cult as the Moonies, although I cannot ever be grateful enough for the Bay Area friends who led me to the work of this man Steven Hassan, who had been a Queens College student, met himself a group of Multi-Level Marketing members at an impressionable age and point in his student life and was lured into the MLM practices of the middle management levels of the Entrepreneur Rev. Moon and who through enlightened and friendship intervention left that org classified a non-profit established 'faith', since then drawing not only on his own experiences but those entire divisions of Multi-Level Marketing dot coms that often began as dot orgs such as the US Federal Intel studies sections formally and trains in, namely the removal of FREEDOM OF MIND.
It helps to also know where the Korean Rev. Moon, cult savant of The Moonies dba Unification Church LLC went looking when he built his own Multi-Level Marketing 'Religion' a la Scientology: Nothing illegal by-the-way about the capitalist God child defined thusly by Wikipedia (for the benefit of our capitalist betters):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketing (MLM)
By the time I was an undergraduate at U.C.-Berkeley and living in the U.S. hub of this MLM (Multi Level Marketing phenomenon then going under the tax shelter of being a non-profit organization) with friends lost to the local Church of Scientology as well as some lesser known MLM start-up platforms (some masquerading more convincingly as sales marketing corporations such as AMWAY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway
Meanwhile other such once reputable orgs turned dot coms succeeded in being granted non-profit title as therapeutic organizations in the early wave of the descendants of the 1960's Tidal Deluge of what were at first legit Drug Rehab Counseling Centers and orgs such as SYNANON. Read the books on SYNANON to study how the Amway Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) business boom transmogrified from Drug Rehab into Cults masquerading as Drug Rehab Centers.
At the time I was studying these new groups in an undergraduate inter-disciplinary course at U.C.-Berkeley where the pioneers of the field of Cultic Studies were bringing together de-classified techniques from Korean and U.S. Cold War mind-control principles and techniques after a spate of news headline crime stories involving some recruiters for these organizations that did seek some Marketing advantages over the stiff competition for these alternatives to the Spiritualism craze that was blossoming well before the Rev Moon (or Amway) were perfecting the art of 'selling healthier lives' via MLM practices and procedures. Being a college student and then migrant to northern California it was merely fortuitous that I happened into some Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology inter-disciplinary courses being taught by the students of the first wave of the founding doyenne of the academic field, Dr Margaret Singer who was based at U.C.-Berkeley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Singer
Purely happenstance that some of Dr Singer's more gifted students were teaching the intro courses on Cults and Mind Control Practices and Techniques. I will be grateful to such U.C.-Berkeley profs such as Richard Ofshe who like the former Moonie-turned academic and organization founder of FREEDOM OF MIND, Steven Hassan happened to be Queens, NY working class kids with curiosities that led them to these very 1960's, 70's, 80's, 90's new fields of study as alternative press journalists had created some general public awareness of the dangers of charismatic allegedly spiritual hucksters which led to the debunking journalists who pulled the mask off of SYNANON during its transformation from laudable alcoholic rehab center in Santa Monica to full-fledged authoritarian cult under the former alcoholic then turned charismatic and clever while to many the legendary Multi Level Marketing entrepreneur Chuck Dederich.
One of my profs at U.C.-Berkeley in the 80's had earlier been part of the alternative press investigative team that helped break the ongoing investigation into and study of SYNANON. I wholeheartedly recommend the immensely helpful and in my case perhaps life-saving book
by an earlier survivor titled LIGHT ON SYNANON
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2024/04/10/synanon-rehab-turned-cult/
https://marinmagazine.com/community/history/how-a-point-reyes-paper-won-a-pulitzer-thanks-to-the-late-dave-mitchell/
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