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drdconlon
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researcher—immigration detention and destitution economies, borders—educator—urban and global studies—wannabe runner—m-dash lover.
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A powerful report from @laurenvillagran.bsky.social, cuts through misconceptions about detention, who is detained, sheds important light on how awful food and care are in detention: eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
ICE says it provides 'proper meals.' Detainees see crystalized jelly, rancid beans and iced bologna
In the business of immigration detention, researchers say 'bad food is the business model.'
eu.usatoday.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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scholars.org
In this No Jargon podcast episode, Nancy Hiemstra (stonybrooku.bsky.social) explains how detention became a massively profitable industry, highlighting who profits, who pays, and how communities across the country have become tied to detention economics.

🎧 Listen now: scholars.org/podcast/big-...
October 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
drdconlon.bsky.social
Phenomenal investigative reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social in the Arizona Daily Star:
'Hell on earth': DHS mass-detention net ensnares more non-criminals
Seventy-one percent of those held in ICE detention have no criminal convictions. Trump's mass-detention net is ensnaring long-time residents with deep community ties, as well as those with valid work
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October 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
drdconlon.bsky.social
Here’s my co-author and great colleague @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social speaking about our work with @scholars.org
scholars.org/podcast/big-...
The Big Business of Immigration Detention | Scholars Strategy Network
The number of people held in immigration detention centers in the U.S. has exploded in recent years, reaching record highs under multiple administrations. And thanks to the Republican-led budget bill ...
scholars.org
October 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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plutopress.bsky.social
📘TODAY📘

Authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social discuss their book, Immigration Detention Inc. with Setareh Gandehari of the @detentionwatchnetwork.org

🗓️Fri, Oct 3
⏰6 pm
📍@peoplesbooktakoma.com
peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/immigr...
Immigration Detention Panel
The United States has the most extensive immigration detention system in the world, expanding from a capacity of less than 5,000 detainees per day in the 1980s to 52,000 by 2019. While the most voc…
peoplesbooktakoma.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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nyclu.org
Federal law generally prohibits schools from releasing students's personal info without parental consent. ICE officers can only access a student's confidential information if they have a signed judicial warrant or a subpoena.

Here's what else you should know before the first day of school:
NYC's immigrant families face new source of back-to-school anxiety: Federal agents
What undocumented families need to know as students head back to school.
gothamist.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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plutopress.bsky.social
“We have studied immigration detention for over a decade and can say with grim certainty that it's just a matter of time until someone dies at Alligator Alcatraz.”

Immigration Detention Inc. authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social for @newsweek.com
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August 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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aclu.org
The Trump administration is set to expand Fort Bliss into the largest immigration detention center in the country, but the El Paso community is pushing back.

We join demands for transparency and assurance that local elected officials, attorneys, and advocates will be able to access the facility.
El Paso County commissioner demands transparency for new Fort Bliss detention center
An El Paso County Commissioner is raising concerns over the new Fort Bliss migrant detention facility and calling for transparency.
cbs4local.com
August 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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scholars.org
The SSN Media Fellowship is back for a third year! This program supports SSN members who are new to media work by connecting them with mentors in the network, offering workshops with the SSN national staff, and more. #Fellowship

🗓️ Apply by September 1st

🔗 Apply now: scholars.org/features/ssn...
August 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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plutopress.bsky.social
@drdconlon.bsky.social, author of Immigration Detention Inc. speaks with the Make Me Smart Podcast by @marketplace.org about how immigration detention became dominated by private companies in the United States.

Listen here: www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...
August 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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plutopress.bsky.social
“The authors reviewed hundreds of ICE inspection reports and compared them with external. The discrepancies are stark.”

@austinkocher.com in conversation with Immigration Detention Inc. authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social
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Listen to Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon Discuss Their New Book: "Immigration Detention Inc."
Immigrant detention is at record highs and the Trump admin wants nearly $50 billion to expand detention capacity. A new book provides critical information about who profits from detention.
austinkocher.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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plutopress.bsky.social
@drdconlon.bsky.social, author of Immigration Detention Inc. speaks with the Make Me Smart Podcast by @marketplace.org about how local economies have become entangled with the business of detention.

Listen here: www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...
Who profits from immigration detention?
A look at the industry underpinning President Trump’s immigration agenda.
www.marketplace.org
August 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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austinkocher.com
Hey Bluesky community, can we please elevate/reshare this issue like crazy to get @bsky.app's attention? It is absurd that after two years of promising to make user's data accessible for download, Bluesky STILL hasn't provided a simple accessible way to do this. Release our data!!!
austinkocher.com Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · Jul 31
Super frustrated w/ @bsky.app's account download option for getting your post data out of the app. They use a proprietary .car binary file format that is almost impossible to work with. Atrocious, obfuscating, irresponsible, untransparent buffoonery. Just provide a friggin' .csv, ya dumb dumb heads.
July 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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plutopress.bsky.social
“We have studied immigration detention for over a decade and can say with grim certainty that it's just a matter of time until someone dies at Alligator Alcatraz.”

Immigration Detention Inc. authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social for @newsweek.com
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People Will Die at Alligator Alcatraz | Opinion
If we don't demand accountability and eliminate profit incentives, more companies and communities will become economically dependent on locking up, starving, and making human beings sick.
www.newsweek.com
July 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
just went to immigration court in Lower Manhattan to see with my own eyes how masked and armed federal agents are apprehending people in the hallways as they walk out of their scheduled hearings.
July 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
drdconlon.bsky.social
@nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and me @drdconlon.bsky.social have a new op-ed in Newsweek. Thanks to Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org for all the support with this:
www.newsweek.com/people-will-...
People Will Die at Alligator Alcatraz | Opinion
If we don't demand accountability and eliminate profit incentives, more companies and communities will become economically dependent on locking up, starving, and making human beings sick.
www.newsweek.com
July 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
"They give you food only once a day, food that even has worms in it," Izquierdo said.
Detainees being held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz' describe conditions at Everglades facility
Florida still has not released the number of people being detained at what they call “Alligator Alcatraz” – but for the first time, we’re hearing from several men who are being held inside the facilit...
www.nbcmiami.com
July 8, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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plutopress.bsky.social
📚See you at the American Library Association Conference!📚

Authors @kylietcheung.bsky.social‬, ‪@nancyhiemstra.bsky.social‬, and @drdconlon.bsky.social‬ will speak about their books. Come join us!

🗓️June 26-30
🎟https://2025.alaannual.org/
2025 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition
June 26 – 30, 2025 in Philadelphia, PA. — ALA Annual Conference is the biggest library event of the year. Attend in person or online for top-quality education, inspiring speakers, author talks,…
2025.alaannual.org
June 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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plutopress.bsky.social
📕Find Pluto and other radicals at @socialismconference.org‬ in Chicago!

Authors @kylietcheung.bsky.social‬, @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social‬ and @drdconlon.bsky.social‬ will speak about their books. Come join us!

🗓️July 3-6
socialismconference.org/2025-schedule/
2025 Schedule • Socialism 2025
This is the most up-to-date schedule for Socialism 2025. Session times are tentative and SUBJECT TO CHANGE due to developing circumstances. All attendees are invited to create a profile through Sched…
socialismconference.org
June 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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nancyhiemstra.bsky.social
Immigration Detention Inc Book Launch: July 1, 7pm at Book Culture @drdconlon.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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plutopress.bsky.social
📚See you at the American Library Association Conference!📚

Authors @kylietcheung.bsky.social‬, ‪@nancyhiemstra.bsky.social‬, and @drdconlon.bsky.social‬ will speak about their books. Come join us!

🗓️June 26-30
🎟https://2025.alaannual.org/
2025 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition
June 26 – 30, 2025 in Philadelphia, PA. — ALA Annual Conference is the biggest library event of the year. Attend in person or online for top-quality education, inspiring speakers, author talks,…
2025.alaannual.org
June 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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plutopress.bsky.social
“A revealing overview of the American business of for-profit migrant incarceration.”

Immigration Detention Inc. by Nancy Hiemstra and @drdconlon.bsky.social reviewed in @publisherswkly.bsky.social
Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking up Migrants by Nancy Hiemstra, Deirdre Conlon
Geographers Hiemstra (Detain and Deport) and Conlon provide a revealing overview of the American business of for-profit migrant ...
www.publishersweekly.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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colinyeo.bsky.social
UK and France in talks over a one in, one out migrant returns agreement on.ft.com/3RSo5Jo
April 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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silkys13.bsky.social
For @truthout.org I wrote about Mahmoud Khalil’s detention, how Trump is capitalizing on the normalization of incarcerating immigrants to enforce his creeping fascist agenda, and why this moment calls for us to bridge across our movements for social change. truthout.org/articles/kha...
Khalil Case Shows How Migrant Justice and Palestine Solidarity Are Tied Together
The detention of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil was made possible by the normalization of deportation.
truthout.org
March 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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aaup.org
Columbia University’s immediate submission & betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that appears intent on destroying US higher education.

Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson:

www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...
Cowardice and Capitulation: Columbia Has Sacrificed Its Own Students to Authoritarianism
The AAUP condemns in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. Columbia University’s decision to punish students ...
www.aaup.org
March 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM