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Exterior view of the Aurora ICE Processing Center detention facility showing fencing and security infrastructure

A Corporate Guard Shot a Protester at an ICE Facility — and the Private Prison Industry Barely Flinched

GEO Group employee Brandon Booth shot Emma Landis, 22, in the back as she walked away from a protest at Aurora ICE Processing Center. He told police he meant to 'scare' her. The private prison industry calls it an individual incident.

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August 3, 2026

Protesters holding signs outside the fenced gates of the Hudson Correctional Facility

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$529 Million for Cages: ICE's New Colorado Detention Center and the Private Prison Industry That Profits From Human Suffering

The GEO Group — a private prison corporation with a history of slave labor, medical neglect, and abuse — signed a $528.6 million contract to reopen a shuttered prison in Hudson, Colorado as a 1,188-bed ICE detention center. The acting ICE director is a former GEO executive. Colorado's detention capacity will nearly double to 2,720 beds.

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July 14, 2026

Silhouette of a person visible through a window behind a razor-wire fence, with HUNGER STRIKE projected above him.

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Starving for Dignity: The Hunger Strike Inside Delaney Hall and the Wall of Silence ICE Built Around It

Between 300 and 400 detainees at Delaney Hall, a GEO Group-run ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey, have entered their second week of a hunger and labor strike over worm-infested food, no air conditioning, untreated illness, and the denial of medical care to pregnant women — including one who miscarried alone inside the facility. A sitting U.S. senator was pepper-sprayed trying to enter. The governor was turned away. DHS insists everything is fine.

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May 30, 2026