Tennessee town approves plans to turn former prison into Ice detention center
Officials in Mason voted to convert prison to Ice facility run by CoreCivic, US’s second-largest private prison operatorOfficials in a rural Tennessee town voted on Tuesday to approve agreements to turn a former prison into an immigration detention facility operated by a private company, despite...
<p>Officials in Mason voted to convert prison to Ice facility run by CoreCivic, US’s second-largest private prison operator</p><p>Officials in a rural Tennessee town voted on Tuesday to approve agreements to turn a former prison into an immigration detention facility operated by a private company, despite loud objections from upset residents and activists during a contentious public meeting.</p><p>The five-member board of aldermen in Mason, along with the mayor, Eddie Noeman, and vice-mayor, Reynaldo Givhan, met in a fire station garage to discuss converting the closed West Tennessee detention facility into a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention center run by CoreCivic Inc, America’s second-largest private prison operator.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/13/tennessee-ice-detention-center-mason">Continue reading...</a>
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