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National Immigration Law Center
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Hundreds of people detained at Folkston ICE Processing Center in Georgia are on a hunger strike, protesting unsafe drinking water, spoiled food, and denied medical care. We stand in solidarity with them & demand humane conditions & accountability🧵⤵️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comDetained immigrants at Georgia ICE facility launch mass hunger strikeAt least 73 people estimated to have joined protest against prolonged detention and Folkston facility’s ‘violations’
National Immigration Law Center
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With no other place to turn, immigrants in GA — and in other facilities across the country — are using this extreme form of protest to demand that someone listen. Among the hunger strikers is a Yemeni asylum seeker with lung cancer who is separated from his U.S. citizen child.

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National Immigration Law Center
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It’s urgent that we amplify their demands. Detention officials have already placed some participants in solitary confinement as punishment. ICE has also deported one of the striker’s organizers.

National Immigration Law Center
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What’s happening in Folkston is a part of a broader pattern of abuse & neglect in detention facilities nationwide. Immigration detention is a for-profit industry built on caging as many human beings as possible & turning detention into revenue—with little regard for the safety of the people inside.

National Immigration Law Center
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It’s no secret that private prison groups, like GEO Group, which runs Folkston, have hit a gold rush with Trump’s mass deportation machine. Earlier this year, GEO Group reported over $732 million in quarterly revenue. www.npr.org/2026/08/08/n...

npr.orgPrivate prisons announce $1.4 billion in revenue as immigration detentions climbThat revenue does not include net proceeds of $1.6 billion made by CoreCivic after the recent sale of four of their facilities to the Department of Homeland Security.