PHILLIPSBURG, PA. – Early on Sunday morning, members of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) gathered in the parking lot in East Liberty to go to Phillipsburg, PA, an old coal mining town in Central PA. The coal mines have closed, and the town’s largest employer is ICE’s Moshannon Valley Processing Center, operated by the private prison contractor GEO Group.
The Moshannon Valley Processing Center is the largest ICE facility in the northeastern United States and is considered one of the most inhumane.
On average, 147 immigrants per month have been locked in solitary confinement, nearly twice the national average for an ICE facility. The conditions are so brutal inside the prison that one detainee, Chaofeng Ge, killed himself in 2025. The suicide has helped bring attention to the facility’s problems…