With 16 deaths confirmed since January 1st, we've already seen more deaths in ICE custody in the first 3.5 months of 2026 than any full calendar year from 2009 to 2019.

The 16th ICE detention death just occurred at the Winn facility in Louisiana. The pattern I just wrote about continues: 1 death every six days.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-report...

Highlighted section of screenshot from CoreCivic 2025 annual report: Activist resistance to the use of public-private partnerships for correctional, detention, and residential reentry facilities could impact our ability to obtain financing to grow our business or to refinance existing indebtedness, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1070985/000114036126012102/ny20060006x3_ars.pdf

opposition to immigration, detention and incarceration policies and the association of private companies with the enforcement of such policies have caused some financial institutions to decline to provide capital, credit or financial services to private entities that own or operate correctional and detention facilities, including CoreCivic

the New York State Legislature is considering a bill that would prohibit New York state chartered banks from investing in and providing financing for privately operated secured facilities. If this legislation becomes law, certain financial institutions may be prohibited from providing us with capital, credit or financial services.

In addition, the movement toward using public-private partnerships for such facilities and centers has encountered resistance from groups which believe that such facilities and centers should only be operated by governmental agencies. For example, several financial institutions, including some of our lenders, had announced that they will not be renewing existing agreements or entering into new agreements with companies that operate such facilities and centers pursuant to public-private partnerships. Some of these same institutions have ceased their equity analyst coverage of our company. Proposed and future legislation could indirectly impose additional financial restrictions with respect to our business. If other financial institutions or third parties that currently provide us with financing or that we do business with decide in the future to cease providing us with financing or doing business with us, such determinations could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Furthermore, recently proposed legislation in California, Assembly Bill 1633, or AB1633, would impose an annual tax equal to 50% of the gross receipts of private detention facility operators beginning on January 1, 2027, if enacted into law. As a result, if enacted into law, AB1633 would impose the 50% tax on gross receipts we receive in connection with the operation of each of the detention facilities we operate in California. Although it is uncertain whether AB1633 will be enacted into law, we can provide no assurance that it will not be enacted, and if enacted, would not impact our results of operations and cash flows.

Live your life in such a way as to be a risk factor for-profit prison operators are legally obligated to disclose to their investors.

Sources: CoreCivic & GEO Group's 2025 annual reports

Especially when you tried to drunkenly fight those buddies at the last bar you were at.

"They have no cards" says the man staring at a set of Uno Draw 4 cards.

Jfc.

Trump will also be issuing Letters of Marque to any U.S-flagged yachts willing to take on privateering.

The overarching theme behind our current moment is "White Men Who Are Afraid of Everything and Everyone Around Them"

I'll take it a step further: give me 50,000 neighbors who don't speak the same language as me, practice a variety of religions, have a mix of cultural backgrounds, etc. before I have to live next to one asshole like Dale Partridge, the grifting pastor of an online pyramid scheme.

"My client is using AI to ask me questions about their case because I haven't shared updates in 3 months and every email I send them is full of confusing legalese...I better charge them more!" is very par for the course for poorly-run law firms.

Screenshot of Financial Times headline "Clients' barrage of AI-generated queries risks pushing up lawyers' fees"

The same attorneys who are using AI irresponsibly in their own work are now charging clients more for using it to communicate with them.

These AI-generated queries from clients are often the result of law firms being really bad at explaining stuff.

www.ft.com/content/744d...

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

Honestly, this depends on the type of gamer.

Real-time/4x strategy/management simulators? Good hires, FAA.

RPGs? Probably fine, but gonna need to see some more qualifications.

Fortnite + other battle royales? I'll take the train, thanks.

And if so, where is it in relation to the "How Many People Died In Our Facilities This Year" section?

Question for tax folks: do GEO Group + CoreCivic have to include any line items or footnotes re: expenses related to indentured servitude payroll in their 10-K?

Forgot the Axios link!

www.axios.com/local/miami/...

A Quarterly Update on 287(g) The growing logistics network behind DHS' deportation army.

Check out my latest updates on the 1,600+ active 287(g) agreements between ICE and local/state law enforcement agencies here:

open.substack.com/pub/maxwellc...

With 287(g), ICE has unfettered power and resources to deputize thousands of local police officers and sheriffs deputies across the country to help carry out their ethnic cleansing campaign.

And unlike Border Patrol’s BORTAC goons, these arrests by local police are rarely high-profile encounters.

From Axios:
“Between mid-December and early March — when the administration launched high-profile enforcement actions in Minneapolis — ICE's St. Paul field office arrested about 5,000 people.

Miami's office reported nearly 10,000 arrests during the same period, the Times reported.”

In some ways, the 287(g) program is the foil character to Greg Bovino’s state-sponsored terror campaigns in Minnesota, Chicago, Charlotte, LA, etc.

And it’s proving far more productive in achieving Stephen Miller and Tom Homan’s deportation goals.

“Nathan Hansen, a right-wing attorney and influential X user who has amplified racist conspiracies and fringe legal theories, will make decisions on which immigrants will be deported in his new job as an immigration judge at Fort Snelling.”

"Ansari said that each of the rooms holding immigrant detainees lists its maximum capacity; the majority had a capacity of 21, while two others were 24. Ansari, Stanton and Grijalva all said they counted more than 40 people in each of the 6 rooms."

Why a surprise inspection? Because the last time they inspected this facility they had to give 7 days notice; and ICE moved almost everyone out of the facility before they got there, then filled it up again when they left. azmirror.com/2026/04/09/i...

Chicago cop who killed Anthony Alvarez in 2021 engaged in fatal unreported police chase last year, new lawsuit alleges Attorneys say they have evidence showing Evan Solano, who chased and shot Alvarez in the back, initiated a deadly “ghost” pursuit that killed 29-year old Eliseo Maya late at night on the Northwest Side in February 2025.

NEW: A cop who chased, shot, and killed a young father in 2021—and then started training new recruits after avoiding firing—is accused of violating CPD policies over an unreported vehicle chase last year.

One of the car's passengers was killed, and Evan Solano is still on duty in the 16th District:

"They were close to having 11 nuclear weapons!" says the talking head with zero evidence.

It's the mindset of a high schooler. But in the body of a frail, desperate senator who can't process the world around him but knows things aren't going well.

An ICIRR alert warning people to stay vigilant amid an uptick of ICE activity in Chicagoland communities. Full release: https://www.instagram.com/icirr_il/p/DW7bZOblH_Y/?img_index=2

An ICIRR alert warning people to stay vigilant amid an uptick of ICE activity in Chicagoland communities. Full release: https://www.instagram.com/icirr_il/p/DW7bZOblH_Y/?img_index=2

An ICIRR alert warning people to stay vigilant amid an uptick of ICE activity in Chicagoland communities. Full release: https://www.instagram.com/icirr_il/p/DW7bZOblH_Y/?img_index=2

The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights is reporting an uptick in ICE activity across the Chicago area over the last week, incl. reported abductions at Cook County courthouses and immigration check ins.

Chicago neighborhoods of reported activity include Rogers Park, Austin and Pilsen.

DHS did the same earlier today. It was for exactly as vile and racist a reason as you can imagine; Breitbart’s “black crime” vertical as official government policy. They are terrible, terrible people. And they’re in control.

Cover image showing crash from the ABC News 7 broadcast at the time.

NEW: Last year, 29-year-old Eliseo Maya was killed in a high-speed crash in Chicago's Dunning neighborhood.

A new lawsuit alleges that Evan Solano, the officer who killed Anthony Alvarez in 2021, was pursuing the vehicle at the time of the crash.

Story: unraveledpress.com/chicago-cop-...

Graph showing that one-third of jail admissions are for misdemeanor charges.

Each year, 2.7 million jail admissions are for misdemeanor charges.

Yes, this includes charges for behaviors like jaywalking or even sitting on a sidewalk.