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ICE Detainee Sent to Solitary Confinement for Encouraging Protest of “Voluntary” Low-Wage Labor
Loaded on Oct. 12, 2017
by Spencer Woodman
Filed under:
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Retaliatory Segregation,
Prison Labor,
Protests,
Immigration.
Location:
Georgia.
by Spencer Woodman, reprinted with permission from The Intercept
In June, officials at a privately run Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in rural Georgia sentenced an immigrant detainee to a month in solitary confinement to punish him for encouraging fellow detainees to stop working in protest of low wages ...
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