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Oh she's out! Neat! What about that German tattoo-artist?
It felt like you were kidnapped because you WERE
Sure wouldn't be a shame if something happens to Damon Hininger, current CEO of Core Civic.
"I've worked at CoreCivic for 32 years, and this is truly one of the most exciting periods of my career," CEO Damon Hininger said on the company's earnings call.
Throw these parasites in their own prisons.
She was abducted and tortured by the US government. That's the plain, simple, horrific truth.
ICE is our very own Gestapo.
[N]o matter how flawed the system, how cruel the circumstances, humanity will always shine through.
Even in the darkest places, within the most broken systems, humanity persists. Sometimes, it reveals itself in the smallest, most unexpected acts of kindness: a shared meal, a whispered prayer, a hand reaching out in the dark. We are defined by the love we extend, the courage we summon and the truths we are willing to tell.
idk this woman, but I'm so proud of her for using this media attention to do the right thing in a horrific situation.
The pictures of letters her cellmates gave her to get to their families, the moment where a wife sees her husband in the detention cells after being separated with no contact for weeks, the dehumanizing assembly line pregnancy tests.
It's a hard fucking read, but everyone should take 10-15 minutes and read the whole thing. This is basic knowledge of the system everyone in the world should be aware of, told by someone who has less to fear in reprisals than most of the folk who manage to escape.
Thanks for encouraging me to read the whole thing - I only skimmed first - well worth it
This is the very significant part:
The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit.
Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies. It’s a lucrative business: CoreCivic made over $560m from Ice contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m from Ice contracts.
ideal next Luigi candidates
At this point Canada should be playing hard ball. Ban all visas from anyone working for those companies, or anyone who delivers services to those companies for as long as they work for those companies. If they lie about who they work for, the ban is permanent and they personally are not allowed to set foot in Canada ever.
Real hardball would be going after major stockholders in CC and GEO Group.
If a doctor has his license suspended and is not able to practice medicine in a normal hospital/doctors office, they are allowed to keep practicing medicine in prison systems. Poof, cut the costs of real medical doctors by employing those no one else can/will.
What an f'ing disgrace. She went to an American government office to apply legally for a visa. The absolute worst consequence should have been "we're sorry, we can't process your Visa and you'll need to return to your home country."
That's it.
This is a minor point compared to her suffering, but also, what an f'ing waste of taxpayer money. Some private facilities got good money I'm sure to lock this innocent lady up.
We were reminded by the last two months or so that it's only a waste of taxpayer money if it doesn't go directly to the pocket of some rich dude.
"rich dude."
Hey, whoa whoa whoa, there are plenty of elitest female grifters as well! Equal'ish opportunity! (only for grifting tho).
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Yes, that's detailed at the end of the article.
I'm only like half way through. This one makes me see enough red I'm having to read it in chunks. Just found out about the poor pastors JFC take a wrong turn and straight to jail and it's not funny.
edit: It just gets worse and worse. In a halfway decent world reading this story would feel like jumping the shark not business as usual.
It felt like a kidnapping because it was factually a kidnapping.
Wow, what a story. The kind of thing you'd expect from a 3rd world shithole country which I guess the USA is becoming.
Nazi USA is a shithole.
Inhabitant of a 3rd world country here
I don't think "kidnapped and tortured by the government" is a thing we've done much of since the US stopped funding our far right dictatorship in the 80s (and the military immediately fucked off and 'let democracy take its course' when the funding dried up).
.... Let us not speak of what our criminal factions get up to though.
1st/2nd/3rd world terminology becoming increasingly outdated as America becomes aligned with Russia and Europe and Canada distance themselves.
The "correct" modern terms are Global North and Global South. But 1st/2nd/3rd are taking on a new meaning of Highly Developed/Developing/Undeveloped. Cold War era political scientists are raging against it but it's much more easily understood than Global North and Global South which also extend the idea that Northern countries are superior. (The given reasoning is that Northern countries are better developed on average, but come on...)
Has been for quite a while, it's just that Americans have been told they're number 1 for so long and most of them don't travel so they don't see anything else.
I haven't done any international travel for the last few years, but I used to do it a decent amount for work, and lemme tell you: the worst part of those trips wasn't the long / cramped plane flights; it was going through US customs.
I'm a US citizen, but every time I went through those lines, it felt like I was passing through a military checkpoint into occupied territory. Every time I went through that experience, it made me hate what our country has become just that little bit more.
There is a place for Capitalism. Prisons, Hospitals, Insurance, police and mental health facilities, to name a few, are not the place.
There is a place... in hell
It is if you're a billionaire and want to be an even bigger billionaire.