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    Report

    Read more about NOLA ICE's history of abuse and exploitation inside for-profit prisons.  
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    Southeast Dignity Not Detention

    We are immigrants, advocates, lawyers, boots-on-the-ground orgs who fight for the end of immigrant detention in the Southeast! Abolish ICE!
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    Federal Civil Rights Complaint Archive

    Department of Homeland Security's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties complaints filed on behalf of people detained in the NOLA ICE region.
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Latest News

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Human Rights and Immigrants’ Rights Organizations Sue ICE And GEO Group

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the National Immigration Project (NIPNLG), and The Bronx Defenders sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the GEO Group, a private prison company, under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
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An asylum-seeker who died in ICE custody was sick for months

Ousmane Ba, a 33-year-old man from Senegal, died February 23 while in the custody of the troubled Winn Correctional Center in rural Louisiana.
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Guards at Louisiana ICE facility accused of illegally pepper-spraying protestors

In January 2024, ICE officers at Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana pepper-sprayed hundreds of detainees who were participating in a peaceful demonstration and hunger strike.