Not only Alcatraz: The notorious US prisons Trump will open again | US prisons

DOnald Trump's proposal to reopen Alcatraz, the notorious prison more than 60 years ago, triggered global headlines at the weekend. But it is not the only notorious closed prison or prison that the government has repeated for mass instruments.

In the past few months, the US government has urged to reopen at least five other adhesive facilities and prisons closed, some closed in terms of safety and abuse of prisoners. While the legislators in California quickly dismissed Alcatraz's announcement as “not serious” and as a distraction, the efforts of the Trump government to reopen other scandally planned institutions are good or already completely in cooperation with non-profit prison companies.

In contrast to the alleged plan for Alcatraz of the US President, the Shuttered Prisons are revived for immigration prisoners, whom he claimed on social media to detain the “reckless and violent criminals in America”.

US immigration and customs authorities (ICE) tried to reopen the California City Correctional Facility, a state prison in the South California desert region, which was concluded last year, according to the government contract files. The facility is owned by Corecivic, a long -standing ice -foundation partner, and previously housed more than 2,000 people.

The California Democrats have also warned that ICE was interested in reopening the Federal Clinic (FCI) Dublin, a US prison that was closed last year in the middle of scandals in connection with systemic sexual abuse by employees and concerns regarding mold and ashillers. The union of the prison officers reported that the employees had to do maintenance work recently under dangerous conditions in Dublin in order to prepare for a reopening, but ICE and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), which Dublin operates, did not comment on plans.

The municipalities in California, the most populous state of the country and at home for almost a quarter of immigrants in the United States, have been opposing ice discovering centers for a long time, and there are currently no ice prisons in the state of Bakersfield in the Central Valley, said Susan Beaty, senior lawyer for the Californian cooperation for immigration justice.

“If there are fewer beds for ice cream to detain people, there are fewer arrests and less enforcement,” said Beaty, who represents people in ICE and BOP. “We do not want ice to expand their ability to cage our community members because we know that this leads to more detention and enables them to further terrorize our communities.”

In the GEO group of Lural Lake County, Michigan, another prison company, the closed North Lake Correctional facility is reopened with a capacity of 1,800 people and, according to the local news site MLIVE.com, the largest immigration discovery center in the middle west in the middle west. Over the years, the facility houses imprisoned young boys, imprisoned people and immigrants outside the state. But it has been resting since it was closed under the Biden administration in 2022.

In 2020, the prisoners at North Lake made a hunger strike, which denied access to their post and religiously adequate food, their complaint papers were destroyed and they were put into extensive solitary confinement. The Geo Group found the claims at this time.

In Newark, New Jersey, the Geo Group recently reopened the closed Delaney Hall facility for immigration facilities, even if, according to News Site Northjersey.com, it has not submitted the necessary building permits or allowed inspectors in inspection.

“They follow the pattern of the president … who believes that he can simply do what he wants to do and to hide the laws,” said Newark's mayor Ras Baraka on Monday.

Christopher Ferreira, a spokesman for the GEO group, said in an e -mail that the company had a “valid occupancy certificate” and that the health and security requirements had complied. The mayor's opposition was “another unfortunate example of a politicized campaign by Sanctuary City and open borders politicians in New Jersey to disturb the federal government,” he added.

In an earnings discussion in December 2024, the Geo Group said in “active discussions” with ICE and the US marshal service about their interest in six of their facilities that were idle.

In Leavenworth, Kansas, Corecivic is working on reopening a immigration authorities of closed immigration authorities in 2021. The proposal for the Midwest Regional Reception Center (MRRC) triggered the cities of Leavenworth, which sued Corecivic in March, and claims that the company did not follow the properly approved protocols.

In 2021 the ACLU claimed that the establishment of Leaveworth from problem [were] Are not fulfilled ”, refused or limited with restricted foods, contact with lawyer and family, limited medical care and rare showers. A federal judge named the facility as a“ hell hole ”.

Ryan Gustin, A Corecivic Spokesper, Defended the Company's Decades of Operations in Leavenworth in an email on Monday, Saying Understaffing Amid the Pandemic “Was the Main Contributor to the Challenges” and “The Issues Were Concentrated in 18-month Period”: “We're Gratul for A More Stable Labor Market Post-Pandemic, and We've Had A Positive Response with Nearly 1,400 [applicants] Interest in one of the 300 positions that will create the facility.

“In one of our institutions, including MRRC, we do not reduce corners for care, staff or training, which exceed our government partners' standards and in many cases,” he said. He also pointed out a surgery that was recently suitable by The Warden, which argued that the facility “was and was always properly put in zones”.

Corecivic also reopened a family finding center in Texas last month.

The use of Shuttered Prisons is only one way of expanding the detention for Trump's mass shifts. He has also converted immigration prisoners into BOP facilities that currently submit criminal accused and cause concerns about poor conditions, violations of rights and a lack of basic resources, while the employees manage several population groups under one roof. Trump has also pushed to expand local prison contracts and use military bases for ice.

Eunice Cho, a senior lawyer for employees of the national prison project of the ACLU, who received public records on the expanding ICE detention, said ICE ignored security concerns in previously closed facilities.

“This is a persistent pattern of the willingness of the Trump government to knowingly bring immigrants to adhesion for dangerous conditions,” she said. “They bring people in facilities in which the conditions are so bad … that people simply give up their valid relief claims to stay in the United States.”

There is a growing local counter reaction to these facilities, and Cho added: “If people recognize what happens in these facilities, it is not something they want to see up close. People are very aware that billions of dollars are spent in to enrich private prison companies to keep people under malicious conditions … including their neighbors, employees and friends.”

ICE did not answer a request for comments on Monday.

Donald Murphy, a BOP spokesman, did not answer any questions about the reopening of Dublin for Ice. In a statement, William K Marshall III, BOP director said that the office “all the ways to implement the president's agenda” in order to support and implement an “immediate assessment” to determine “our needs and the next steps” for Alcatraz:

The deputy director of Coree Kendrick, National Prison Project Project from ACLU, dismissed Trump's ALCATRAZ declaration as a “stunt” and found that the cellblock of the prison has no flowing water or sewage and a limited electricity.

“I don't know if we can call it a” proposal “, because it implies that it was actually being considered,” she said. “It is completely far -fetched and absurd, and it would be impossible to reopen these old, crumbling buildings as everything that resembles a functioning prison.”