California prisons regularly turn over US citizens to ICE

[Winehole23]

Racist, corrupt and diabolically cruel.

“We are learning more and more about how our state prison system is choosing to transfer Californians who have completed their sentences to ICE detention,” said Sana Singh, immigrants’ rights fellow at the ACLU of Northern California. “CDCR has, purely by its own initiative, invented a two-tiered system of incarceration that rips Californians from their home.”

Emails between CDCR and ICE reveal that prison staff ignore their own records to flag people for ICE based on racist assumptions about their names, the languages they speak, and where they were born. When marked with a “potential ICE hold” – a category invented by CDCR – people are denied rehabilitation, training, education, and credit-earning opportunities, and have little to no recourse to challenge their treatment.

In one exchange, an official at Avenal State Prison joked “should we just put US citizen on a piece of paper fold it up and put it in a hat, and then write on another piece of paper Mexican, fold it up and also throw that in the hat and pick one.”

The records also show CDCR staff are willing to violate cons utional protections, holding people past their release date so that ICE can detain them. Several state prison facilities have a dedicated “ICE desk” whose entire job is facilitating deportations.

https://www.aclunc.org/news/californ...ice-new-report

https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default...AL_8_28_23.pdf

[Winehole23]

In one disquieting instance, a Case Record Technician at Avenal State Prison referred an individual to ICE whose CDCR records and record of arrest and prosecutions both indicated that he was born in California. Unconvinced by CDCR’s own records, the Case Record Technician treated the situation as a joke. In an email to ICE agents, the technician asked, “should we put US citizen on apiece of paper fold it up and put it in a hat, and then write on another piece of paper Mexican, fold it upand also throw that in the hat and pick one.”

[Winehole23]

In one email, even an ICE Officer was perplexed by CDCR’s aggressive and unnecessary referral of an individual, stating: “Not sure why he was flagged since his rap sheet has him being born in California and no other country.

[Winehole23]

Another email, sent by a Correctional Case Records Supervisor to ICE ten days before an individual was scheduled to be released, illustrates that CDCR staff members question people’s citizenship based on how well they speak English. The supervisor wrote: “…his RAP sheet indicates he was born in California. He was not; he was born in Mexico.” When the ICE Officer asked why she believed the individual is not a citizen, the Case Records Supervisor said, “I was tipped off while reviewing his parole audit, as the PSA’s [Parole Service Associate] indicated on his parole conditions that he doesn’t speak English.”

[Winehole23]

CDCR acts with impunity to help ICE detain community members who have been ordered released by a court, or otherwise gained the right to return to their communities. The records received thus far make clear that this is not the case of a single bad actor or even a single problematic facility: CDCR systematically discriminates against actual and perceived immigrants.

[koriwhat]

Racist, corrupt and diabolically cruel.

Wow California! Good job!

[Chucho]

When they can't steal from you, the State of California finds a way to get rid of you.

Rotten ing state. No state, not Washington, Oregon, Florida or Texas or even the Jim Crowers in Missouri have on the level of corruption in California.

If their tax scams and class genocide doesn't make the news, this wont either and all the people who cried about the wall wont/dont care about this either.

[FrostKing]

When they can't steal from you, the State of California finds a way to get rid of you.

Rotten ing state. No state, not Washington, Oregon, Florida or Texas or even the Jim Crowers in Missouri have on the level of corruption in California.

If their tax scams and class genocide doesn't make the news, this wont either and all the people who cried about the wall wont/dont care about this either.

We have homeless on every street corner and thousands undo ented pouring in weekly if not daily. People actually in jail isn't the biggest priority right now. Considering how lackadaisical the laws are here in California lately you have to be dumb and/or wreckless to find yourself locked up Post Covid.

Whenever a State is one single political party for too long it goes sour. I agree on the corruption and I'll add massive wastefulness.