ICIRR has worked with local residents and allies in communities throughout the Chicago area to fight proposed for-profit detention centers to jail immigrants awaiting deportation.  ICIRR believes that no one should profit from creating misery, and the for-profit prison industry has a long history of abusing detainees, mistreating workers, harming host communities, and even threatening public safety. 

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We have fought proposed prisons in Crete (2012) and Joliet (2013) as well as in Hobart (2013-ongoing) and Gary, Indiana (2015 and 2016).  Most recently we have joined the fight against siting this facility in Hopkins Park, Illinois.