Biden admin to close ICE’s largest detention center — says it’s the ‘most expensive facility’ in the nation
The Biden administration plans to close Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s largest detention center, citing the fact that it is the “most costly facility” in the country. New York Post report. The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, can hold 2,400 undocumented immigrants. The facility is run by CoreCivic, a Tennessee-based private prison contractor. […]
Steve Bannon’s Prison Sentence Will Be Served In Facility With Violent Offenders: REPORT
Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon will serve his four month sentence at a prison in Danbury, Connecticut, rather than a minimum-security prison camp where many nonviolent offenders are sent, according to CNN. Bannon, who a judge recently ordered to report to prison by July 1 after being convicted for contempt of Congress, is not eligible […]
Pennsylvania Garbage Facility Collected $10 Million in Lost Change
A waste management facility in Pennsylvania has recovered $10 million worth of lost coins since it began picking through trash in 2017, company officials said. At the Reworld Waste Treatment Plant in Morrisville, sifters are used to carefully remove coins from incinerated trash, sorting them and then washing them to leave them shiny and clean. […]
Top Dem Senate candidate diverted millions from police during crime surge to fund mental health facility
First appeared on FOX: The leading Democratic candidate in this year’s Senate race has diverted millions of dollars from law enforcement to fund mental health facilities, even as crime is soaring. Prince George’s County Mayor Angela Alsobrooks, who is running to replace retiring Maryland Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin, announced in June 2020 that $20 million […]
Envigo Pleads Guilty, Incurs $35 Million Fine After DOJ Rescues 4,000 Dogs From Facility Over Welfare Concerns
A research company that breeds and supplies lab animals pleaded guilty to animal welfare violations and contamination-related charges on Monday and was hit with a huge $35 million fine, two years after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) rescued more than 4,000 beagles from a facility in central Virginia, according to a statement. Envigo RMS […]
Taxpayers still on hook for COVID-shuttered ICE facility amid objections by blue state lawmaker
Federal officials are again extending an evaluation of a mostly shuttered California detention center that holds thousands of illegal immigrants, with one lawmaker calling for the facility to be reopened amid continuing costs. “Although the Administration ended the COVID-19 national emergency over a year ago, the Adelanto ICE facility remains prohibited from processing new detainees,” […]
California ICE facility has 1,900 empty beds due to COVID: sources
As Border Patrol agents in California struggle to cope with the thousands of illegal immigrants flooding into the United States each day, one entire holding facility is being used to hold just five people. The well-equipped Adelanto ICE processing center, about 130 miles northeast of Los Angeles, can hold up to 1,940 detainees, but remains […]
Jason Kelce at Eagles’ facility ‘almost every day’ after retirement
The Eagles appear to be heavily involved in Jason Kelce’s post-retirement plans. According to Philadelphia kicker Jake Elliott, the recently retired Eagles center has been “in the building almost every day” since declaring his career in March. “You can start to see little traces of them all over the locker room.” Elliott said Kelce, 36, […]
Iowa facility where intellectually disabled residents were mistreated to close
An Iowa facility for people with intellectual disabilities will be permanently closed after federal investigators say patients’ rights are being violated there. The Des Moines Register reported that 28 residents at the state-run Glenwood Resource Center have been told they will be moved out by the end of June, and 235 employees have been told […]
Ex-teacher at NH youth facility testifies she reported teens’ suspicious bruises
A former teacher at a New Hampshire youth detention center on Monday reported suspicious bruises on at least six teenage boys in the 1990s, including the former resident who filed a landmark lawsuit against the state. He testified that he did. Brenda Wouters, who taught social studies at Sununu Youth Services Center for 35 years, […]