Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago.

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The transformation of the prison into migrant detention continues a pattern of ICE moving into shuttered prisons. With several recently closed prisons in the state and one more expected next year, activists worry whether one of those facilities may be next.

California City mayor told me that he had proposed to the company that they turn the former prison into a training academy for trade careers but CoreCivic decided to wait until after the election to see which way the political winds would blow.