The state has already spent $300 million keeping shuttered prisons operational—as immigration raids escalate.
LOS ANGELES, CA – Advocates today warned that three recently closed California prisons are at risk of reopening as immigration detention centers under intensified federal immigration raids and arrests. The facilities—federal prison FCI Dublin, state-owned Chuckawalla Valley State Prison (CVSP), and privately run California City Correctional Facility—could soon be reactivated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), placing migrants at risk and reversing California’s progress toward shrinking its carceral footprint.
ICE officials recently toured the shuttered FCI Dublin, a women’s prison closed after rampant sexual abuse scandals, assessing its reuse for immigrant detention, as reported by CBS Bay Area. GEO Group, the private prison company behind the California City Correctional Facility, similarly proposed the facility to ICE late last year, according to documents obtained by the ACLU…