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", "author_name": "Shame On Citizens Bank", "author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/users/shame-on-citizens-bank/profile", "title": "Citizens Bank: Stop Funding Private Prisons and ICE Detention Centers!", "thumbnail_url": "https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/petitions/photos/000/204/945/normal/99094644_4314345645246061_3291469997133529088_o.jpg", "description": "Citizens Bank has provided $120 million in loans to CoreCivic, one of the largest private prison corporations in the country. CoreCivic runs at least 65 prisons and ICE detention centers and has a history of running these facilities with violence and neglect. CoreCivic facilities have become a hotspot for covid-19. More than 1800 people were infected with covid-19 and three people died from the virus at CoreCivic’s Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Tennessee. At CoreCivic’s Otay Mesa ICE Detention Center, people were pepper sprayed when they asked for personal protective gear. 221 people tested positive for covid-19 at the facility and one person died after CoreCivic denied them medical care. Major covid-19 outbreaks have occured at several other CoreCivic facilities. (TW: sexual violence) In recent years CoreCivic has faced lawsuits and criminal investigations for corruption, failing to provide adequate healthcare, and sexual violence at their facilities. This includes at CoreCivic’s ICE detention center in El Paso, Texas where guards systematically sexually assaulted people held at the facility. The main witness for this case was retaliated against and then deported. Then at a CoreCivic facility in Houston, Texas a woman was sexually assaulted by guards days before being deported to Mexico. In 2018 Roxsana Hernandez, a trans woman seeking asylum from Hondurus, was killed due to inadequate medical care at a CoreCivic facility. CoreCivic then covered up her death. As long as Citizens Bank continues to fund CoreCivic, they are complicit in this violence and harm. Major banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and SunTrust have already ended their financing of private prison corporations like CoreCivic. It is time for Citizens Bank to follow suit and fully divest from CoreCivic.", "url": "https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/shameoncitizensbank" }