CoreCivic's Repeated—and Illegal—Promise

CoreCivic claims repeatedly it will have a provision "strictly prohibiting the release of detainees into the community" from its Midwest Regional Reception Center in Leavenworth. However, this statement demonstrates CoreCivic's fundamental disregard for the rule of law. Such a representation is legally unenforceable in every respect.

CoreCivic cannot make these broad policy commitments in how all detainees in their "care" will be treated without ignoring basic due process and court orders in individual cases. For example, CoreCivic cannot continue to hold immigrants who have been granted release or legal status in the United States. CoreCivic does not have the authority to make any determination for detainees' release terms across the board before their facility is even open. If CoreCivic continues to make this promise, we can be sure that what CoreCivic really intends to do is flout our constitution's guarantees of protection to all people on American soil.

Furthermore, CoreCivic continues to engage in acts of misrepresentation— here by obscuring the fact that the majority of immigrants detained by ICE are not dangerous and have no history of violent crime and are facing civil charges, not criminal ones. 

Once again, as the Leavenworth community is more than familiar with by now, CoreCivic demonstrates a complete disregard for human rights and for the law, from federal statutes to city ordinances. This corporation quibbles in court with the City over the permitting process, while making overtures at working together, but its actions show complete disrespect for the City's governance over its own land. 

CoreCivic is engaged in a shameless sales pitch and opportunism. It has hitched itself to the most brazenly illegal policies of this presidential administration, and all of that comes at the cost of families inside and outside of their facility in Leavenworth and across the country.