Private prison company to operate 'home curfew' pilot program for detained migrants: report

Private prison company to operate 'home curfew' pilot program for detained migrants: report
Source: The Hill

A private prison operator is set to run a pilot program to track immigrants who are placed in house detention rather than in detention facilities.

GEO Group, one of the country's largest operators of detention facilities, will run the program through its BI Incorporated subsidiary, reported
Reuters.

The move is part of the Biden administration's push to decrease immigrant detention and draw down for-profit incarceration, but it's still being met by resistance from immigrant rights advocates.

A coalition of immigrant advocacy groups - National Immigration Project, National Immigrant Justice Center, Detention Watch Network, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Human Rights First, Community Change Action, and FIRM Action - panned the plan Wednesday, saying it would expand the number of immigrants under surveillance by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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How much abuse and mis-justice does this idea present!