Some ICE detainees unable to buy food after payment system goes down

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Source: msn/The Independent

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CE immigrant detention center detainees have been left without access to basic necessities after a third-party service software outage, according to a new report.

Access Corrections is one of several private vendors used by ICE. The company provides payment processing systems and communications to ICE's detention facilities, and its software allows detainees to buy commissary items like food, hygiene supplies, and medicine.

But things have gone from bad to worse for the individuals ICE has whisked off the street to face an uncertain fate; Access Corrections' services have apparently been a problem for some time, according to SFGATE.

One man who was detained at ICE's Desert View Annex in the Mojave Desert told the outlet that he was kept imprisoned for 50 days, and during that time had to rely on the kindness of other detainees for basic items after his his wife's numerous attempts at sending him money were stifled by software problems.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/some-ice-detainees-unable-to-buy-food-after-payment-system-goes-down/ar-AA1FQyKk

[live love laugh]

1. It's not enough to take away their freedom. They want to harm them.

I hate them.

[Hugin]

2. That's what always gets me about the Republican corruption...

They cause the collapse of public systems that work in order to open them up to privatization. Subsequently, they are unable to operate the grifts their corruption leads to.

Sort of like running casinos into the ground… They ARE Trump.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Can Americans please

Open our eyes?

When starvation and lack of personal hygiene/basic human care is denied -

It begins to look like a Siberian gulag or Concentration Camp.

The owners of these private gulags names need to be noted for when the Regime falls. We then need to throw them in their own camps until their trial.

They need to be taught a lesson. I don't give a shit if it's Authoritarian Adjacent. It must be done.

[Zackzzzz]

4. I am confused.

Am I reading this right.
A person who is being "detained", must buy their own food and necessities?

[Ms. Toad]

5. No. But just like most places of detention,

The basic necessities are very basic, and people detained there often supplement then by making purchases from the commissary.

The one person described the food provided to them as "inedible." There was no actual description of that food, so it is hard to tell what the issue with the "free" food was.

And what is a necessity for some is not under the detention rules. A former student of mine wears contacts. I don't know if he even has glasses - or had them with him when he was taken to jail. He was unable to get contact solution for around a month - and it isn't considered a necessity.

I don't have experience with this system, but third party systems which serve places of detention (prisons, penitentiaries,immigration detention centers, etc) are hard to navigate - and generally have to be funded by people outside the system. Even when they work, that means the person being detained has to have someone outside of detention who (1) knows they are there, (2) has enough facility with clunky software apps to make them work, and (3) money to give to the person detained.

[IronLionZion]

6. For profit prisons are very efficient like that

they cut costs and maximize profits

[slightlv]

8. That realization is what dropped my chin to my knees!

These people are kidnapped by masked men at gun point, detained with no due process whatsoever, tossed into fenced "cells" with hundreds of other people, and they have to PAY for their food and hygiene products? NO.... I don't care what trump thinks, this is NOT Russia, and we can't allow him to run his "detention" camps like Russian gulags. I suppose this is why we haven't heard about this until now... hopefully there are a lot of people like me who are gobsmacked at this news. Sounds like a good starting point for some Protest Signs on 6/14!

[yardwork]

7. We are starving people we have imprisoned.

Look at what the United States is doing.

[slightlv]

9. One of the first things Democrats MUST do

when we take power once again is reform the prison system. I know, I know... there are SO many "First Things" we have to do. But that which impacts directly on human lives has to precedence. I don't know all the ins and outs of prison reform (or justice reform, as it should be), but one thing I and most of my friends agree on is killing this whole corporate game of Private Prisons. There have been WAY too many wrongs associated with them, including judges paid by third party go-betweens to put juveniles in their own form of private prison group homes. There has been a hell of a lot wrong with the US for decades; prison is one of our blackest eyes... especially when you consider POC are represented in the prison population at a much higher percentage rate than WASPs. It's just part of the systemic racism run rampant in this country for as long as it's existed.

[gopiscrap]

10. bet this was fucking done on purpose