Worker pushback prompts DLR Group to stop designing ICE prisons

That week, it had become widely known among DLR Group’s 1,800-some employees that the firm had connections to ICE through its deals involving the private prison company CoreCivic. The resulting outcry has thrown DLR Group into turmoil [...]

Writing for Mother Jones, reporter Madison Pauly retells the case of how recent prison design contracts linked to ICE detentions at DLR Group, one of the nation's largest architecture firms, led to an internal revolt among employees over company ethics and, ultimately, to executives backtracking on ICE-connected contracts.

"Within a week, more than 75 different employees had spoken out against the Diamondback project, work on ICE detention centers, or DLR Group’s relationship with CoreCivic on the company’s message board," Pauly writes. "Some of them had surfaced more examples of DLR Group’s connections to ICE: a past contract to expand Otay Mesa, a CoreCivic-owned ICE detention center in California; renovations at a Texas ICE detention center named after a CoreCivic founder."