Comments for The Business Of Detention http://www.businessofdetention.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:40:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Comment on Farmville, VA detention center to become largest immigration detention facility in the mid-Atlantic region by Jason http://www.businessofdetention.com/?p=346&cpage=1#comment-16323 Jason Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:40:56 +0000 http://www.businessofdetention.com/?p=346#comment-16323 One more piece of info.... If your Shift Commander don't know what they are doing, why are they Shift commanders. Make assumptions of decitions of employees. Seending just a group of specific people over and over work and let others in the streets. Money problems, Hours missing, not current in acordance with promisse at hire. From $ 12.00 and hour to $ 28,000.00(salary). The portions ( rations) given to the deteinees. ( Meals) The news paper claims the average salary in this facility was $ 48,000.00, so how come detention officers $ 28,000.00 and Bilingual detention officers $ 35,000.00. We were hire as detention officers, and not temporary labor like in the last few checks in been posted. The non taxable checks thru out this time, while at last few checks deductions had been made but only for social security only. There's more of this but at this point we rather just deal with the higher grounds. Lighting_Strike_33 One more piece of info….

If your Shift Commander don’t know what they are doing, why are they Shift commanders.

Make assumptions of decitions of employees.

Seending just a group of specific people over and over work and let others in the streets.

Money problems, Hours missing, not current in acordance with promisse at hire. From $ 12.00 and hour to $ 28,000.00(salary).

The portions ( rations) given to the deteinees. ( Meals)

The news paper claims the average salary in this facility was $ 48,000.00, so how come detention officers $ 28,000.00 and Bilingual detention officers $ 35,000.00.

We were hire as detention officers, and not temporary labor like in the last few checks in been posted. The non taxable checks thru out this time, while at last few checks deductions had been made but only for social security only.

There’s more of this but at this point we rather just deal with the higher grounds.

Lighting_Strike_33

]]> Comment on Farmville, VA detention center to become largest immigration detention facility in the mid-Atlantic region by Jason http://www.businessofdetention.com/?p=346&cpage=1#comment-16322 Jason Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:16:33 +0000 http://www.businessofdetention.com/?p=346#comment-16322 Readers: I been part of this ICA, Farmville and i been watching every single thing that is been happening for the last 7 months. Is been lots of fake promisses. Lots of lies, and violations on several labor laws towars employees. Let me start with hiring process each and everyone of us got letters in then mail about been hire as detention officers, some of the others got e-mails.( Black and white proof) Un propper trainning. Pay problems, working conditions, miss inform of working procedures and favor it conditions for some employees. Sad is the Swytch... above is talking about loosing a house wich it means a $ 12.00 job not giving enought hours could not save a house, unless hit the lottery or been a fake.While they hire $ 40,000.00 a year assistant and his working in the facilitywith out no background check .. we are in the street waiting to return to work. By now lots of people who we start there, we are no longer there. Nurses, Detention Officers and even Supervisors. REALLY WHY IS THIS HAPPENING ? ANSWER : They really don't know what they are doing. Someone needs to look in to this, before the law really strike on this problem. Lighting_Strike_33 Readers:

I been part of this ICA, Farmville and i been watching every single thing that is been happening for the last 7 months. Is been lots of fake promisses. Lots of lies, and violations on several labor laws towars employees. Let me start with hiring process each and everyone of us got letters in then mail about been hire as detention officers, some of the others got e-mails.( Black and white proof) Un propper trainning. Pay problems, working conditions, miss inform of working procedures and favor it conditions for some employees.

Sad is the Swytch… above is talking about loosing a house wich it means a $ 12.00 job not giving enought hours could not save a house, unless hit the lottery or been a fake.While they hire $ 40,000.00 a year assistant and his working in the facilitywith out no background check .. we are in the street waiting to return to work.

By now lots of people who we start there, we are no longer there. Nurses, Detention Officers and even Supervisors. REALLY WHY IS THIS HAPPENING ? ANSWER : They really don’t know what they are doing. Someone needs to look in to this, before the law really strike on this problem.

Lighting_Strike_33

]]> Comment on DETENTION by William Moore http://www.businessofdetention.com/?p=74&cpage=1#comment-16321 William Moore Mon, 13 Sep 2010 05:18:25 +0000 http://www.businessofdetention.com/wp/?p=74#comment-16321 outsourcing is always essential to businesses coz it helps reduce the cost of production",; outsourcing is always essential to businesses coz it helps reduce the cost of production”,;

]]> Comment on Farmville, VA detention center to become largest immigration detention facility in the mid-Atlantic region by jorje http://www.businessofdetention.com/?p=346&cpage=1#comment-16320 jorje Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:07:26 +0000 http://www.businessofdetention.com/?p=346#comment-16320 No es justo que traten de despilfarrar todos esos miles de dolares pudiendolo husar en cosas mas veneficas porque la inmigracion nunca se va acabar no es justo que la jente que viene a buscar una mejor vida se le corten los suenos nada mas hasi jhon lakwis No es justo que traten de despilfarrar todos esos miles de dolares pudiendolo husar en cosas mas veneficas porque la inmigracion nunca se va acabar no es justo que la jente que viene a buscar una mejor vida se le corten los suenos nada mas hasi jhon lakwis

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]]> Comment on Farmville, VA detention center to become largest immigration detention facility in the mid-Atlantic region by alex http://www.businessofdetention.com/?p=346&cpage=1#comment-16317 alex Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:41:43 +0000 http://www.businessofdetention.com/?p=346#comment-16317 I think alot of people that work here,have no idea what there doing. and the training is a set up for failure. One of us are going to get hurt for the simple reason that everyone here thinks there god and knows everything about,this line of work. They just pick who ever to do a job. The Shift commanders are unfair,and show favoritism in the workplace.I dont see thats its right.To be working here and tring to do what we do and having relationgship in the workplace. i dont see anything wrong with the married couple here.But commanders and asst.commanders having relationship or dating or favoritism is just wrong.The Officers are here to work and do there job.There not here to be starting high school all over.learn your jobs and stop messing around befor somebody gets hurt.And to val henderson i know the feeling about having a hard time making the bills i'm still fighting I think alot of people that work here,have no idea what there doing. and the training is a set up for failure. One of us are going to get hurt for the simple reason that everyone here thinks there god and knows everything about,this line of work. They just pick who ever to do a job. The Shift commanders are unfair,and show favoritism in the workplace.I dont see thats its right.To be working here and tring to do what we do and having relationgship in the workplace. i dont see anything wrong with the married couple here.But commanders and asst.commanders having relationship or dating or favoritism is just wrong.The Officers are here to work and do there job.There not here to be starting high school all over.learn your jobs and stop messing around befor somebody gets hurt.And to val henderson i know the feeling about having a hard time making the bills i’m still fighting

]]> Comment on Farmville, VA detention center to become largest immigration detention facility in the mid-Atlantic region by On ICE: Farmville’s New Immigrant Detainee Facility – Reforma Migratoria http://www.businessofdetention.com/?p=346&cpage=1#comment-16316 On ICE: Farmville’s New Immigrant Detainee Facility – Reforma Migratoria Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:00:29 +0000 http://www.businessofdetention.com/?p=346#comment-16316 [...] New Immigrant Detainee Facility, better known as the ICE Center, is being built in a desolate area near Farmville’s water treatment plant located at the far end [...] [...] New Immigrant Detainee Facility, better known as the ICE Center, is being built in a desolate area near Farmville’s water treatment plant located at the far end [...]

]]> Comment on DETENTION by Lina http://www.businessofdetention.com/?p=74&cpage=1#comment-16315 Lina Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:44:37 +0000 http://www.businessofdetention.com/wp/?p=74#comment-16315 That is the SICKEST most DISGUSTING ABUSE OF HUMANITY! I have "seen" these private PRISONS, they are meant for CRIMINALS NOT LEGAL or "undocumented" immigrants, meaning they are TRYING TO DESTROY THE MIND IF NOT THE BODY as documented with photos and visitation and PROOF being held by a LV Attorney for further investigation into the inhumane treatment of the FEW immigrants scattered enough NOT to raise eyebrows or incite a riot which peaceful it would be, would I an original U.S. citizen by generation and birth ALSO be "silenced" and sent somewhere as foreign to me as a 40 year old whose entire life since the age of 3 had been OUTSIDE his birthplace and country of origin and NEVER knew or has KNOWN any person from HIS country except his immediate family ALL U.S. born or naturalized for a crime yes, a crime of being an ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT during his Junior year of H.S. A model citizen, school, church, BOY SCOUTS, at the wrong place at the wrong time and in SHOCK. These UNMARKED vans with men WITHOUT ANY IDENTIFICATION except blue jackets and hats pulled down low burst into a home WITHOUT WARNING OR PERMISSION WITH NO WARRANT and REFUSE to say what office or division of ANY LEGAL LAW ENFORCEMENT THEY ARE WITH drag a father supporting an ailing wife and two teenage children out of his home BEFORE his "warrant" is signed which is NOT in fact a warrant but a LETTER to be delivered stating a REVIEW for his status is under investigation due to a REVISED and OPEN TO BE AMENDED revision statute??? Then MOVED from his OWN city, large enough and having had it's own detention for immigration issues and at WORST sent to "camp snoopy" the immigration facility in Arizona. Yet NO, his name WAS changed in the system DESPITE PROOF FROM HOMELAND SECURITY---all intentional to ensure NO ONE was able to track this LAW ABIDING, TAX PAYING and SOCIAL SECURITY PAYING individual,making hundreds of thousands off of ONE PERSON and their family's fall into destitution and near death of the wife after moving him to North Las Vegas to a PRIVATE FEDERAL PRISON---where he was locked down 21--TWENTY ONE HOURS A DAY with day old baloney sandwiches for DINNER with THREE OTHER PEOPLE IN ONE ROOM DESIGNED FOR TWO, this is a 6'4 300 lb individual with a Bachelors or higher who is a contributing member of society and labelled as a "risk to others" having lived next door to even his H.S. coach since his incident in 89 for over 20 years with NEVER another ANY TYPE OF PROBLEM, INCLUDING the replacement of an alien card that was stolen with his wallet and given instead of his unexpired card a ten year, that was renewed and then ANOTHER ten year and went for the third and NOTHING in the MAIL--BE WARNED the BIOMETRICS is a GIMMICK TO GET YOU---BE VERY AFRAID--contact an attorney IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT EVER CONTACT THEM OR GO TO THE OFFICES. DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR WORK, YOUR WIFE'S NAME, YOUR CHILDREN'S NAMES, OR YOUR HOME ADDRESS. His grandmother and uncle died while in there, his wife nearly x2. Visitation consisted of monitors not even glass or phone visits probably to disguise the wasted form of what once was a vibrant young professional, losing 60 + lbs the first month there. The children after over 10 months of deprivation of their father caved and begged to go to whatever country, even unsafe after a tremendous burning down of the main town and siege upon the island they could not and would not wait for even with an attorney, a top attorney they refused to even move him yet made him a trustee, entrusted with keys that would release violent criminals yet the reason they would not release him and give him the letter that was never sent and the reason they used for the warrant to detain him until his "court date" that was randomly set the following MONDAY IN LAS VEGAS---PREMEDITATED ALL THE WAY was a hoax with the judge stating he had NO JURISDICTION TO LET HIM GO? WHAT? Nothing they said ever made sense, this man was dying, his family dying, his wife WAS/IS DYING and he PAID FOR HIS CRIME TWENTY YEARS AGO to lose his home, job, family and be EXILED to a tiny island forever and NEVER AGAIN see his children graduate ANYTHING OR LIVE THEIR LIVES unless they came to visit him, with a 200.000 education that was PAID BACK and STILL THE IRS kept ALL OF HIS TAXES even HIS WIFE'S TAXES, they kept coming, pulling out all the stops to suck the remaining RIGHTS from him as a human being...being HANDCUFFED AND ESCORTED ALL THE WAY OVER 7,000 MILES, humiliated and treated worse than a dog (wait we have the HUMANE SOCIETY FOR ANIMALS, just not LEGALIZED IMMIGRANTS?). Obama promised changes, oh they've changed for the WORSE, they ALL PROMISE DON'T THEY, but it just gets worse. Wish HE WAS OBAMA'S HALF BROTHER and that the "Terminator" had responded and done what he promised which was review his case and dismiss it as the grounds were VERY CLEAR it would have been allowable, even BUSH COULD HAVE DONE ONE DECENT THING IN HIS 8 YEARS AND SET HIM FREE, instead, he lives in deplorable conditions having to send his children BACK to the US for proper care and education and even protection as they are not natural born citizens of this country he knows nothing of, not even the language and his wife, tormented and abused and threatened already chronically ill, severely needing treatment and surgery they refuse and also can not meet her needs and demand an atrocious amount to treat even the most minor ailment. You've sent people to their death America, Americans, who support you NOW in your old age, disability, financial aid and unemployment and YOU DO NOT CARE! You have NOT LEARNED ANYTHING or you would KNOW that "Americans" are the AMERICAN NATIVE INDIANS, we are INFILTRATORS who did NOT LIKE ENGLAND and then MANY OTHER COUNTRIES yet it is STILL DISCRIMINATION. Bush, the LAST PRESIDENT BY LAW is an AGGRAVATED FELON---since the "elevation" of so many crimes, what is HIS PUNISHMENT? Living with his mommy and daddy now? Or LOOKING IN THE MIRROR? Disgusting, Despicable, a life to feed the flames of greed and fill the pockets to help everyone but their own countrymen who are cleared to fight for the liberty of America but NOT DEEMED FIT THOUGH LEGALLY THERE TO REMAIN and STOLEN IN THE NIGHT WITH AUTOMATIC SHOTGUNS IN FRONT OF THEIR FAMILIES AND DRAGGED OUT IN FRONT OF NEIGHBOURS AND FRIENDS AND HIDDEN AND CAST AWAY INTO A HOLE until SOMEONE BREAKS! That is the SICKEST most DISGUSTING ABUSE OF HUMANITY! I have “seen” these private PRISONS, they are meant for CRIMINALS NOT LEGAL or “undocumented” immigrants, meaning they are TRYING TO DESTROY THE MIND IF NOT THE BODY as documented with photos and visitation and PROOF being held by a LV Attorney for further investigation into the inhumane treatment of the FEW immigrants scattered enough NOT to raise eyebrows or incite a riot which peaceful it would be, would I an original U.S. citizen by generation and birth ALSO be “silenced” and sent somewhere as foreign to me as a 40 year old whose entire life since the age of 3 had been OUTSIDE his birthplace and country of origin and NEVER knew or has KNOWN any person from HIS country except his immediate family ALL U.S. born or naturalized for a crime yes, a crime of being an ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT during his Junior year of H.S. A model citizen, school, church, BOY SCOUTS, at the wrong place at the wrong time and in SHOCK. These UNMARKED vans with men WITHOUT ANY IDENTIFICATION except blue jackets and hats pulled down low burst into a home WITHOUT WARNING OR PERMISSION WITH NO WARRANT and REFUSE to say what office or division of ANY LEGAL LAW ENFORCEMENT THEY ARE WITH drag a father supporting an ailing wife and two teenage children out of his home BEFORE his “warrant” is signed which is NOT in fact a warrant but a LETTER to be delivered stating a REVIEW for his status is under investigation due to a REVISED and OPEN TO BE AMENDED revision statute??? Then MOVED from his OWN city, large enough and having had it’s own detention for immigration issues and at WORST sent to “camp snoopy” the immigration facility in Arizona. Yet NO, his name WAS changed in the system DESPITE PROOF FROM HOMELAND SECURITY—all intentional to ensure NO ONE was able to track this LAW ABIDING, TAX PAYING and SOCIAL SECURITY PAYING individual,making hundreds of thousands off of ONE PERSON and their family’s fall into destitution and near death of the wife after moving him to North Las Vegas to a PRIVATE FEDERAL PRISON—where he was locked down 21–TWENTY ONE HOURS A DAY with day old baloney sandwiches for DINNER with THREE OTHER PEOPLE IN ONE ROOM DESIGNED FOR TWO, this is a 6′4 300 lb individual with a Bachelors or higher who is a contributing member of society and labelled as a “risk to others” having lived next door to even his H.S. coach since his incident in 89 for over 20 years with NEVER another ANY TYPE OF PROBLEM, INCLUDING the replacement of an alien card that was stolen with his wallet and given instead of his unexpired card a ten year, that was renewed and then ANOTHER ten year and went for the third and NOTHING in the MAIL–BE WARNED the BIOMETRICS is a GIMMICK TO GET YOU—BE VERY AFRAID–contact an attorney IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT EVER CONTACT THEM OR GO TO THE OFFICES. DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR WORK, YOUR WIFE’S NAME, YOUR CHILDREN’S NAMES, OR YOUR HOME ADDRESS. His grandmother and uncle died while in there, his wife nearly x2. Visitation consisted of monitors not even glass or phone visits probably to disguise the wasted form of what once was a vibrant young professional, losing 60 + lbs the first month there. The children after over 10 months of deprivation of their father caved and begged to go to whatever country, even unsafe after a tremendous burning down of the main town and siege upon the island they could not and would not wait for even with an attorney, a top attorney they refused to even move him yet made him a trustee, entrusted with keys that would release violent criminals yet the reason they would not release him and give him the letter that was never sent and the reason they used for the warrant to detain him until his “court date” that was randomly set the following MONDAY IN LAS VEGAS—PREMEDITATED ALL THE WAY was a hoax with the judge stating he had NO JURISDICTION TO LET HIM GO? WHAT? Nothing they said ever made sense, this man was dying, his family dying, his wife WAS/IS DYING and he PAID FOR HIS CRIME TWENTY YEARS AGO to lose his home, job, family and be EXILED to a tiny island forever and NEVER AGAIN see his children graduate ANYTHING OR LIVE THEIR LIVES unless they came to visit him, with a 200.000 education that was PAID BACK and STILL THE IRS kept ALL OF HIS TAXES even HIS WIFE’S TAXES, they kept coming, pulling out all the stops to suck the remaining RIGHTS from him as a human being…being HANDCUFFED AND ESCORTED ALL THE WAY OVER 7,000 MILES, humiliated and treated worse than a dog (wait we have the HUMANE SOCIETY FOR ANIMALS, just not LEGALIZED IMMIGRANTS?). Obama promised changes, oh they’ve changed for the WORSE, they ALL PROMISE DON’T THEY, but it just gets worse. Wish HE WAS OBAMA’S HALF BROTHER and that the “Terminator” had responded and done what he promised which was review his case and dismiss it as the grounds were VERY CLEAR it would have been allowable, even BUSH COULD HAVE DONE ONE DECENT THING IN HIS 8 YEARS AND SET HIM FREE, instead, he lives in deplorable conditions having to send his children BACK to the US for proper care and education and even protection as they are not natural born citizens of this country he knows nothing of, not even the language and his wife, tormented and abused and threatened already chronically ill, severely needing treatment and surgery they refuse and also can not meet her needs and demand an atrocious amount to treat even the most minor ailment. You’ve sent people to their death America, Americans, who support you NOW in your old age, disability, financial aid and unemployment and YOU DO NOT CARE! You have NOT LEARNED ANYTHING or you would KNOW that “Americans” are the AMERICAN NATIVE INDIANS, we are INFILTRATORS who did NOT LIKE ENGLAND and then MANY OTHER COUNTRIES yet it is STILL DISCRIMINATION. Bush, the LAST PRESIDENT BY LAW is an AGGRAVATED FELON—since the “elevation” of so many crimes, what is HIS PUNISHMENT? Living with his mommy and daddy now? Or LOOKING IN THE MIRROR? Disgusting, Despicable, a life to feed the flames of greed and fill the pockets to help everyone but their own countrymen who are cleared to fight for the liberty of America but NOT DEEMED FIT THOUGH LEGALLY THERE TO REMAIN and STOLEN IN THE NIGHT WITH AUTOMATIC SHOTGUNS IN FRONT OF THEIR FAMILIES AND DRAGGED OUT IN FRONT OF NEIGHBOURS AND FRIENDS AND HIDDEN AND CAST AWAY INTO A HOLE until SOMEONE BREAKS!

]]> Comment on Farmville, VA detention center to become largest immigration detention facility in the mid-Atlantic region by Val Henderson http://www.businessofdetention.com/?p=346&cpage=1#comment-16313 Val Henderson Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:23:10 +0000 http://www.businessofdetention.com/?p=346#comment-16313 My son was training at the facility in Farmville sporadically; awaiting the opening when Dept.of Homeland Security stepped in and now he is laid off until he hears back. ICA has been very poor at communication thus far and he truly has no clue when/if he will still have a job with them. Wondering how Swytch (above comment) is faring with keeping her house? I know my son is having trouble meeting just a car payment! My son was training at the facility in Farmville sporadically; awaiting the opening when Dept.of Homeland Security stepped in and now he is laid off until he hears back. ICA has been very poor at communication thus far and he truly has no clue when/if he will still have a job with them. Wondering how Swytch (above comment) is faring with keeping her house? I know my son is having trouble meeting just a car payment!

]]> Comment on Farmville, VA detention center to become largest immigration detention facility in the mid-Atlantic region by Swytch http://www.businessofdetention.com/?p=346&cpage=1#comment-16304 Swytch Fri, 14 May 2010 23:39:10 +0000 http://www.businessofdetention.com/?p=346#comment-16304 I do not really like the idea about locking up illegal immigrants, especially the ones just trying to make an honest living, even though I'm not sure how honest the people are who pay them their "minimal" wages. But what about MY family??? During this economic crisis, my husband, who worked for a company for the last 17 years,making over $65,000.00 a year, was let go last year, along with about 60 other men and women. He has been out of work for the last year doing everything from mowing grass, working on friend's vehicles, driving from construction site to construction site all to be told, as they say, "they have people there who will do the job cheaper." By the way, he was asking for about $10.00 an hour. We were one month away from losing our home.....and a possible mental breakdown, when he was offered a job with ICE in Farmville. I thank them everyday for giving my husband a job that can keep our family in our home. I do not really like the idea about locking up illegal immigrants, especially the ones just trying to make an honest living, even though I’m not sure how honest the people are who pay them their “minimal” wages. But what about MY family??? During this economic crisis, my husband, who worked for a company for the last 17 years,making over $65,000.00 a year, was let go last year, along with about 60 other men and women. He has been out of work for the last year doing everything from mowing grass, working on friend’s vehicles, driving from construction site to construction site all to be told, as they say, “they have people there who will do the job cheaper.” By the way, he was asking for about $10.00 an hour. We were one month away from losing our home…..and a possible mental breakdown, when he was offered a job with ICE in Farmville.

I thank them everyday for giving my husband a job that can keep our family in our home.

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