Dilley Hellhole and Forty-Five More

February 16, 2026

Last month, federal officers arrested five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, when they arrived home from school in Minnesota. And then, these so-called “officers” shipped them to be imprisoned at a private prison run by a company, CoreCivic, at its South Texas Dilley facility. President Obama’s government opened this “immigration jail” for families of workers, including their children, in 2014.

The Dilley facility operators routinely deny medical treatment to children they imprison, and don’t provide access to drinkable water, child-friendly foods, or hygiene supplies. They subject kids to sleep deprivation, according to a court filing submitted by children’s rights groups last year. There is currently a measles outbreak at this jail.

In short, this so-called facility is nothing but a torture and horror chamber for the jailed, their little children, and even babies.

CoreCivic currently owns and operates 45 such prisons in the U.S. to profit. This company touts its success. “I have worked at CoreCivic for 32 years, and this is truly one of the most exciting periods in my career with the company,” CoreCivic’s then-CEO Hininger said on an earnings call last year.

The two largest for-profit prison companies, GEO Group and CoreCivic, through their contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), generated more than 2 billion dollars in revenue.

ICE currently imprisons more than 70,000 people, and the majority of them are incarcerated in private prisons. Within the last year, the majority of the 38 people who have died under ICE custody died in for-profit facilities.

Capitalism extracts profit by imprisoning workers and their children under horrible conditions.