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Which communities are you for, Citizens?
See how the private prison companies Citizens Bank finances are hurting our neighbors — and join us in asking them to stop.
“I want to get out and eat pizza and bananas. I really want to go to school. I miss my friends from school.”
Thousands of children have been put in ICE detention since 2025. Five have been held for more than nine months at a CoreCivic facility in Texas, where they describe medical neglect, inedible food, and trauma.
“Medical personnel merely took her to a small room, and left her bleeding alone...”
CoreCivic medical staff repeatedly delayed care for Lucia, who was bleeding heavily in the first trimester of her pregnancy. They finally sent her to a hospital with her arms and legs in shackles. But it was too late: she lost her child.
“That was their final goodbye — behind a window without being able to touch him or speak to him.”
Luis had always relied on medication to manage a congenital heart condition. His family says the GEO Group facility where he was held didn't supply it or provide the care he desperately needed. On Jan. 5, he died.
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“He has to remove his prosthetics and then he crawls across floors covered with mold and feces to shower.”
After a lifetime in the U.S., father, husband and double amputee Rodney Taylor faces declining health in CoreCivic's Stewart ICE facility in Georgia where he has been held for more than a year.
“I don't care that he was an inmate ... he was a human soul. He shouldn't have died.”
Bill Rogers worked for the CoreCivic in 2016 and is still haunted by an inmate's death that the company did not report for six days. The inmate was a sweet, funny kid who reminded Rogers of his own son. Calling an ambulance quickly could have saved him.
“It’s just one of the worst feelings. Here I am on deployment, on active duty, and they are abusing my mom.”
Reyna's son returned from his deployment to learn of her alleged abuse by a GEO Group employee. GEO monitors more than 180,000 people in U.S. communities, with few guardrails against abuse.
Citizens says it's committed to
“fostering strong communities.”
We're asking them to live up to that commitment and stop financing the for-profit prison companies that profit from the destruction of communities and families — even the imprisonment of children.
Eight major banks already cut ties with CoreCivic and GEO Group. Citizens is still lending.
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