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applegrove

(132,207 posts)
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 07:21 PM Monday

2 year old at Dilly trailer prison:

Two-year-old Kaleth is being locked away at the Dilley trailer prison. He is getting sicker with each passing day. He will not eat the food CoreCivc serves, which detainees have said sometimes has mold and worms. He now has a fever.

Joaquin Castro (@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social) 2026-03-30T20:19:15.162Z
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2 year old at Dilly trailer prison: (Original Post) applegrove Monday OP
If THIS is what "Winning" looks like... BurnDoubt Monday #1
Fuck these monsters malaise Monday #2
God damn them all! PatSeg Monday #3
Truly sick, twisted, demented, hate-filled, sadistic, perverted ones? niyad Monday #6
I've always known there were bad people PatSeg Monday #10
Sadly, I have always known this. But I had, optimistically, thought niyad Monday #14
Same here PatSeg 21 hrs ago #30
Contact CoreCivic littlemissmartypants Monday #4
This is how fascism works to destroy democracy Farmer-Rick Yesterday #20
What a cute little boy MustLoveBeagles Monday #5
May all involved receive everything they deserve. niyad Monday #7
And then some MustLoveBeagles Monday #9
I am experiencing a new emotion, in these times - feels like blood boiling. yellow dahlia Monday #8
"Slowly killing us on the inside": A family of 6 at Texas' Dilley ICE detention center begs for freedom cliffside Monday #11
Trump is turning America into a vile Hellish dictatorship. I'm ashamed, angry, and feel helpless. Martin68 Monday #12
Don't include yourself in the helpless part, my friend. calimary Monday #15
Goddammit these nasty, horrible people!! AllyCat Monday #13
I hope and pray for karma to payback those that did this to this adorable child! kimbutgar Monday #16
Our tax dollars at work. debsy Monday #17
Below is a description of CoreCivic from Wikipedia. Lonestarblue Yesterday #18
As unspeakably evil as... GiqueCee Yesterday #19
It seems the gop is determined to create mtairyguy 23 hrs ago #21
What a precious child wendyb-NC 23 hrs ago #22
this is heartbreaking, cruel, evil samsingh 23 hrs ago #23
I hope justice is served for these evil fucks but it will be a long road. Must flip the House for any accountability. Evolve Dammit 22 hrs ago #24
A 2 yr old in prison? This country is sick. Jim__ 21 hrs ago #25
I look at that beautiful face CareyOn 21 hrs ago #26
Stephen Miller's dream... lame54 21 hrs ago #27
Fascist monsters. Joinfortmill 21 hrs ago #28
Kick BlueWaveNeverEnd 21 hrs ago #29

PatSeg

(53,214 posts)
10. I've always known there were bad people
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 09:02 PM
Monday

in this world, but I had no idea there were so many and so inexplicably cruel.

niyad

(132,440 posts)
14. Sadly, I have always known this. But I had, optimistically, thought
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 09:38 PM
Monday

we might be evolving.

PatSeg

(53,214 posts)
30. Same here
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 03:30 PM
21 hrs ago

I thought we'd made extraordinary progress over recent decades and that perhaps the evil ones had backed down somewhat. Unfortunately, they just unified behind a carnival barker and let their hate flow freely.

Optimistically, I still believe we have evolved, but with some major painful setbacks.

littlemissmartypants

(33,579 posts)
4. Contact CoreCivic
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 08:21 PM
Monday

For information about specific facilities' policies regarding visitation and communicating with residents and detainees, please visit our Facility Locator section and select the relevant facility.

To contact CoreCivic about any resident or detainee concerns or questions, please utilize the Resident Concern Line.

Mailing Address
5501 Virginia Way, Suite 110
Brentwood, TN 37027

Phone: 615-263-3000
Toll-free: 1-800-624-2931
Fax: 615-263-3140

https://www.corecivic.com/contact-us

Farmer-Rick

(12,667 posts)
20. This is how fascism works to destroy democracy
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 12:11 PM
Yesterday

This corporation is marking Huge bucks from our tax dollars doing the Nazis' work for them. The filthy-rich hiding behind their corporations torture and abuse innocents while pedo Trump feed them huge amounts of our tax dollars.

These are the founders of this torture system:
Thomas W. Beasley
T. Don Hutto
Robert Crants

Thanks to Raygun, they founded this abusive system to pump our taxes into their pockets. This facade of the corporation has broken laws, been investigated and sued.

If you ever wanted to make money off of the torture of small children, you don't have to sex traffic them. You can just buy stock in the filthy-rich corporate facade called CoreCivic.

This is the end game for capitalism. To take your hard earned money to give it to the filthy-rich through the corporate facade while abusing, employing and oppressing you and your children.

But are any of these filthy-rich stock owners going to be held responsible? No, because they hide behind their corporate entities.

cliffside

(1,720 posts)
11. "Slowly killing us on the inside": A family of 6 at Texas' Dilley ICE detention center begs for freedom
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 09:09 PM
Monday
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/03/11/el-gamal-texas-egyptian-family-dilley-health-care-food-ice-detention-letters-children/

"... These are among the exclusive accounts from an Egyptian family imprisoned at the nation’s only family detention center for more than nine months, believed to be the longest held in that South Texas facility during President Donald Trump’s second administration. The declarations, which span 59 pages, include hand-written letters and pictures drawn by the five children. They were first obtained by The Texas Tribune before lawyers submit them to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Wednesday.

Taken together, the family’s accounts provide what lawyers and child advocates call new and disturbing details into the conditions at the detention center in Dilley, about 70 miles southwest of San Antonio. The family, including the mother Hayam El Gamal and her five children ranging in ages from 5 to 18, detail what they describe as abhorrent medical care, inedible food and a disregard for their religious freedom as Muslims.

The family was detained after the father, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, was charged with attacking mostly Jewish protestors at a Boulder, Colo., event last June, accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at demonstrators supporting Israeli hostages. He allegedly wounded at least 29 people and an 82-year-old woman died from her injuries. The father, who has pleaded innocent, remains in federal custody on more than 100 charges related to the incident.

His wife, who wrote that she met her husband through an arranged marriage, and their children have repeatedly denied knowledge of his attack. They have consistently said that the father was emotionally and physically absent and barely spoke to them. The family has since disavowed the father and is no longer in contact with him, their attorney said. “We are six innocent people, including 5-years-old twins, trapped in a nightmare we didn’t create,” wrote Habiba El Gamal, the 18-year-old daughter..."

Martin68

(27,741 posts)
12. Trump is turning America into a vile Hellish dictatorship. I'm ashamed, angry, and feel helpless.
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 09:16 PM
Monday

calimary

(90,017 posts)
15. Don't include yourself in the helpless part, my friend.
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 09:59 PM
Monday

I figure as long as we can breathe, move, find food, think for ourselves, and talk to each other, the likelihood of our surviving this mess is strong.

They may be able to fuck with some of us. Maybe a lot of us. But they will not and cannot beat all of us.

That’s the one thought that helps me keep going.

AllyCat

(18,842 posts)
13. Goddammit these nasty, horrible people!!
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 09:25 PM
Monday

This is a child who has no idea why he is there and what is happening to him!

Lonestarblue

(13,479 posts)
18. Below is a description of CoreCivic from Wikipedia.
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 08:29 AM
Yesterday

"CoreCivic, Inc. is an American private prison operator and one of the largest for-profit prison, jail and detention contractors in the United States. It has been the target of divestment campaigns, FBI investigations and lawsuits alleging civil rights violations and forced labor at some of its owned or operated 70 state and federal correctional and detention facilities in the U.S."

Private prisons make money on head count. Even a sick two-year-old earns profits for them. Integrity and humane treatment of people are not profitable.

GiqueCee

(4,253 posts)
19. As unspeakably evil as...
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 10:04 AM
Yesterday

... ICE agents and their superiors are, their malevolence is eclipsed by the soulless corporatists running CoreCivic. I generally abhor capital punishment, but I would make an exception in their case.
The malicious swine on the Dark Side of the Aisle conveniently forget about the maquiladoras in Mexico that work people like rented mules, and pay them next to nothing. And they kick dust all over home plate at the mere mention of Reagan funding and training death squads in Central America, which led to the failed gangster-states that now generate so many of the desperate refugees who risk their lives trying to enter the very country that deliberately caused the problems that spurred their exodus in the first place.
But the M$M now owned by Trump-loyalist billionaires won't allow such stories to be printed or aired.
And people wonder why I won't let a Republican in my house. Have you seen the cost of fumigation following such an infestation?

mtairyguy

(30 posts)
21. It seems the gop is determined to create
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 12:52 PM
23 hrs ago

…more stateless people, from children separated from their parents and not re united to immigrants deported to countries other than their country of origin! And authorities collect dna, too!

wendyb-NC

(4,691 posts)
22. What a precious child
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 01:22 PM
23 hrs ago

Get him out of that place. He desperately needs medical care. Our country has been taken over by heinous bastards. They torture and abuse innocent people.

samsingh

(18,426 posts)
23. this is heartbreaking, cruel, evil
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 01:25 PM
23 hrs ago

there are no words to describe how disgusting this situation is.

This cannot be forgotten. the support for this regime should be at 10% (the truly evil).

Evolve Dammit

(21,774 posts)
24. I hope justice is served for these evil fucks but it will be a long road. Must flip the House for any accountability.
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 01:55 PM
22 hrs ago
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