Searchable Article Database: Warehouses: NoCCUS maintains a database of searchable articles across the sites.

LIST of ARTICLES:

SUMMARY of ARTICLES:

WAREHOUSE ARTICLES:

WAREHOUSE TRACKER: Project Salt Box

DHS Contracts Visualizer

CONTRACT INFORMATION:

WEXMAC2.1 RFP (Request for Proposal)

WEXMAC2.2RFP

COMPLETE LIST of 109 CONTRACTORS: (WEXMAC2.2)

Contracts for Jan. 16, 2026 > U.S. Department of War > Contract | U.S. Department of War

EXCEL Spreadsheet of Contractors with addresses: (>109 contractors)

ECONOMIC IMPACTS to COMMUNITIES:

The Local Economic Impacts of Prisons | The Review of Economics and Statistics | MIT Press  Nov 7, 2024, The Review of Economics and Statistics (2024) 106 (6): 1442–1459.

So You Think a New Prison Will Save Your Town? | The Marshall ProjectThe Marshall Report, “So You Think a New Prison Will Save Your Town?” 6-14-2016, Tom Meagher & Christie Thompson.

ACLU: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration (Nov 2, 2011) bankingonbondage_web.pdf  p. 20-22: Scant Economic Benefit for Local Communities.

Revisiting the Impact of Prison Building on Job Growth: Education, Incarceration, and County‐Level Employment, 1976–2004* – Hooks – 2010 – Social Science Quarterly – Wiley Online Library.

The Development of Last Resort: The Impact of New State Prisons on Small Town Economies, Terry L. Besser and Margaret M. Hanson, Iowa State University (paper under review at the Journal of the Community Development Society) Microsoft Word – Besser Hanson CDS 04.doc.

ICE Wants to Reopen a Prison in Your Town? The Economic Impact of Prisons on Communities, YouTube, Sep 24, 2025, Ellis Nelson.

Revisiting the Impact of Prison Building on Job Growth: Education, Incarceration, and County-Level Employment, 1976-2004 on JSTOR, Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 91, No. 1 (MARCH 2010), pp. 228-244 (17 pages).

BUILDING a PRISON ECONOMY in RURAL AMERICA by Tracy Huling – DocsLib, New Press, 2002.

Jail Breaks: Economic Development Subsidies Given to Private Prisons, Good Jobs First, Philip Mattera, Mafruza Khan, with Greg LeRoy and Kate Davis, Oct 1, 2001.

How ICE Detentions Make Private Prison CEOs Richer, More Perfect Union, YouTube video, May 2025.

DWN Banking on Detention 2016, Detention Watch Network, 2016.

Communities Not Cages-A Just Transition from Immigration Detention Economies_DWN 2021.pdf, Detention Watch Network, 2021.

POLITICAL ACTION:

Example of City Council Resolution: Merriville, IN

Example of a Governor Letter:

Example of a US Senator letter: (US Sen. Roger Wicker To DHS)

Proposed ICE Facility Threatens Byhalia, Mississippi Economy and Infrastructure…

Example of a US Representative letter: (US Rep. Gosar to DHS)