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    While DHS was publicly denying that a hunger strike was happening at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California, GEO Group was filing charges against the people organizing it. Fund the Watch on GEO Group They monitored the platform detainees use to contact the outside world, and identified a message from someone claiming responsibility for arranging the strike. It's worth asking what legal authority GEO Group has, as a private corporation, to bring charges of any kind against people in its custody – let alone what these charges mean. What we can say with confidence is that a private prison company just used its surveillance of detainee communications to identify an organizer and file paperwork designed to punish them for the act of demanding basic dignity. ResistMap documents incidents like these to close the gap between what these companies say publicly and what their own paperwork shows. Chip in to keep that work funded. Here is the thing about GEO's authority to b...