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State Prison Shuttered in 2024 Reactivated in 2025 as ICE Detention Facility

Back in 2021, @oaklandabosol.bsky.social explained, "We'll treat a 'prison closure' as real when the walls are rubble. Til then, it's just 'incarceration held in reserve.'"

#CaliforniaCity #CoreCivic #AbolishICE 🔥🧊🔥

February 12, 2026 at 11:53 PM

George Kelly

@allaboutgeorge.com

Special shout-outs to @gabrielleberbey.bsky.social @mattcollette.bsky.social and Sophie Bearman #PacificStandardTime #SFNews #podcasts #CaliforniaCity #california

November 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM

George Kelly

@allaboutgeorge.com

sfstandard.com/pacific-stan... by @emilydreyfuss.bsky.social and @jessealejandro.bsky.social

#PacificStandardTime #sfnews #podcasts #CaliforniaCity #California

What happens when ICE opens a detention center in your town?

California City is a tiny town that’s become home to the state’s largest ICE detention center. Residents want it gone, but the mayor is struggling to do anything about it.

sfstandard.com

November 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM

Raffle ❌👑

@tacomentarian.bsky.social

CoreCivic profits from human suffering. They are one of the largest for-profit detention center corps in the US.

Death camps like theirs in #CaliforniaCity pay the people kidnapped within $1/day for labor.
CoreCivic then charges those people $5 for a brief phone call.

DIVEST from $CXW.

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Nov 5

Private prison industry is booming.

November 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM

California Politics Huddle

@ca-politics-huddle.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

CPH Daily Bulletin 11/4/2025

REPORT: Newly Opened #californiacity #ICEdetention Facility: Dangerous for Disabled People - #disabilityrights California

https://www.disabilityrightsca.org/reports/california-city-ice-processing-center-a-dangerous-expansion-of-immigration-detention-in […]

Original post on mastodon.social

mastodon.social

November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM

California Politics Huddle

@ca-politics-huddle.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

CPH Daily Bulletin 10/29/2025

Lawsuit seeks to block expansion of #California’s largest ICE detention facility

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article312667926.html

#ICEdetention #kerncounty #californiacity #corecivic

October 30, 2025 at 5:16 AM

Param Only

@onlyparam.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #californiacity #corecivic #icedetention #usaprisons #usadetention

‘Hell on earth’: immigrants held in new California detention facility beg for help

Six people at a remote Ice facility in California City describe medical problems and filthy conditions, which operator CoreCivic denies

www.theguardian.com

October 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM

Today In LA

@todayinla.bsky.social

Today In LA another death is reported at an ICE detention center. This is the 2nd one. Conditions at the California City detention center slide further into concentration camp status, a detained confirms.

#IllegalDetentionCenters
#ConcentrationCamps
#AbolishICE
#CaliforniaCity

October 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM

kevdudeula.bsky.social

@kevdudeula.bsky.social

#HellOnEarth #Immigrants #ICE #HumanRightsAbuses #UnsanitaryConditions #NoMedicalHelp #NotEnoughFood #Mistreatment #ICEDetention #Noem #Homan #Trump #CaliforniaCity

The Guardian:

‘Hell on earth’: immigrants held in new California detention facility beg for help www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Hell on earth’: immigrants held in new California detention facility beg for help

Six people at a remote Ice facility in California City describe medical problems and filthy conditions, which operator CoreCivic denies

www.theguardian.com

September 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM

California Politics Huddle

@ca-politics-huddle.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

CPH Daily Bulletin 9/26/2025

Detained immigrants protest over conditions inside newly opened #californiacity ICE facility

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/detained-immigrants-protest-over-conditions-212303934.html

#ICEdetention #immigration

Detained immigrants protest over conditions inside newly opened California City ICE facility

Detained immigrants at the detention center in California City described the facility's conditions as inhumane, saying many people do not have access to adequate medical care or clean drinking water.

www.yahoo.com

September 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM

News Mason

@newsmason.bsky.social

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September 25, 2025 at 4:53 AM

AmyAlexCA

@amyalexca.bsky.social

Via @laist.com— this is an amazing pod series I first listened to on its debut in 2020. I was then living FT in #MontgomeryCountyMD but was riveted bc I’m familiar w #KernCo and had heard of #CaliforniaCity but hadn’t ever visited. Now a
#MAGA ICE facility is there. 🫢 laist.com/podcasts/cal...

California City

Deep in the Mojave Desert, there is a little town with a big name and a bizarre history: California City. For decades, real estate developers have sold a dream here: if you buy land now, you’ll be ric...

laist.com

September 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM

AmyAlexCA

@amyalexca.bsky.social

Here is @laist.com’s terrific 2020 pod on #CaliforniaCity — a rural #CA town that literally was “conceived” by Rapacious land + residential real estate developers over the past 30yrs or so. It has NOT taken off, for a variety of reasons— which perversely makes it ripe now for a #MAGA ICE facility🥺🏜️

September 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM

California Politics Huddle

@ca-politics-huddle.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

CPH Daily Bulletin 9/23/2025

Immigrants protest #solitaryconfinement, abuse at CA’s largest ICE #detentioncenter

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article312180017.html

#californiacity #torture #kerncounty #corecivic #cccf #ICEdetention

September 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM

KittyAKAJody

@kittywestmeow.bsky.social

#CaliforniaCity zoom is going off!! We aren’t even into the ICE shit.

www.californiacity-ca.gov/CC/index.php...

September 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM

Juli

@world-wanderer.bsky.social

#CA #California #CaliforniaCity #September9th #Immigrants #Immigration #Kidnapped by #ICE

KittyAKAJody @kittywestmeow.bsky.social · Sep 7

Tuesday! 👇🏼👇🏼

September 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM

KittyAKAJody

@kittywestmeow.bsky.social

#LosAngeles #SoCal anyone near #CaliforniaCity??? Show up at the CA City - City Council meeting on Tuesday (City Hall or Zoom) to share your feelings about this BS!! 👇🏼👇🏼

September 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM

Vintage Virgo

@vintagevirgo.bsky.social

#CaliforniaCity sold out the immigrants on the promise of 500 jobs and $2M in tax revenue by #CoreCovic to reopen the site. 300 detainees are currently being held with capacity of about 2500.

CA’s largest ICE detention center quietly reopened and is receiving detainees

This is the third privately-operated immigration detention center in Kern County.

www.fresnobee.com

September 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM

Nicky🦨✌️

@skoombidoombis.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy

We were going to turn the former prison into a vocational and trade college but trumps reelection changed those plans because it’s more profitable as a private detention center.

#wtf

June 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM

News Mason

@newsmason.bsky.social

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May 18, 2025 at 5:22 AM

AmyAlexCA

@amyalexca.bsky.social

Really good 2way btwn @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social + @laist.com / #CaliforniaCity Pod: It examines the very important Q of how #Oakland (and, tangentially #SF’s) WorkingClass Black communities are faring as Global Industrial shifts negatively impact neighborhoods 🌉 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...