Washington state governor OKs bill banning for-profit jails mynorthwest.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mynorthwest.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signs bill banning for-profit jails, including large ICE detention center in Tacoma
Updated 5:26 PM;
Today 5:26 PM
The Northwest Detention Center is shown, Wednesday, April 15, 2020, in Tacoma, Wash. on the day of a during a car-based protest showing support for detainees inside who were taking part in a hunger strike to protest conditions they say are inadequate to protect detainees from the spread of the coronavirus.AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
Facebook Share
OLYMPIA, Wash. One of the country’s largest for-profit, privately run immigration jails would be shut down by 2025 under a bill signed Wednesday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.
Inslee provides update on legislature, COVID-19 in Washington state yaktrinews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yaktrinews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Washington joins several states, including California, Nevada, New York and Illinois, that have passed legislation aiming to reduce, limit or ban private prison companies from operating. But Washington is only the third - following Illinois and California - to include immigration facilities as part of that ban.
“Widespread civil immigration detention is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice that currently exists in our political system,” Matt Adams, legal director at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, said in an email. “The enactment of this bill is an important step towards rejecting the privatization and profiteering model of immigration detention centers that has pushed the massive expansion of immigration detention. ”
By Kathi O Shea April 15, 2021 7:47 am
Associated PressIn this photo taken June 21, 2017, a women s area at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash., is shown during a media tour of the facility. The federal facility, operated under contract by The GEO Group, is used to house people detained on immigration and other violations.(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a bill aimed at shutting down one of the country’s largest for-profit, privately run immigration jails in 4 years.
The 1,575-bed Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma is operated by the GEO Group under a contract with ICE.