“Citizens Bank made a choice to finance the caging of human beings for profit. Jersey City is making a choice too: we will not be complicit, and we’ve already begun the process of pulling city funds,” Mayor James Solomon said in a statement.
"To hear beds discussed like empty shelves in need of filling is unsettling. Profits come at the cost of community members—business owners, students, preschoolers, parents, and infants—losing their freedom."
A portion of today’s crowd protesting Citizens Bank in West Roxbury MA. Communities, not cages. Even with abuse and death count rising, Citizens is backing abusers. Sickening on so many levels.
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"Greater Boston Interfaith Organization and member congregations withdrew $2 million from Citizens Bank on Wednesday, the latest development in the faith group’s protest over the Providence-based bank’s business dealings with operators of some [ICE] facilities."
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"Today, Jersey City makes its stand. This divestment is a reaffirmation of this city's commitment to being a place where immigrant neighbors are welcomed, where families are not torn apart by fear, and where every person, regardless of where they were born, can build a home and a life with dignity."
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The City of Jersey City has announced they will divest from Citizens Bank over them providing $2.5 billion towards ICE detention financing
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As private prisons celebrate record profits, a swelling movement seeks to hit the industry where it hurts: their funding
BREAKING: Jersey City Mayor James Solomon, together with Ward D Councilmember Jake Ephros and Ward B Councilmember Joel Brooks, today announced that the City of Jersey City will divest its funds from Citizens Bank.
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Jersey City voted to move $265 million out of Citizens Bank over its financing of ICE detention operators GEO Group and CoreCivic. Join us to learn why, and how you can too, in this one-hour webinar for municipal, county and state elected officials and community activists.
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“That is not immigration enforcement. It is a for-profit machine built on human suffering," Councilmember Jake Ephros said, "and Citizens Bank has been writing the checks.” 🔥
"According to Communications Director Nathaniel Styer, approximately $265 million was being held at Citizens and is now in the process of being moved. Of the $265 million, about $150 million was moved Tuesday."
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Jersey City is divesting from Citizens Bank because of its reported financial ties to the private prison companies running Immigrant Customs and Enforcement (ICE) detention. At its Wednesday night…
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Jersey City yanks $265 million from bank that finances private prison companies
Jersey City is pulling $265 million in public funds from Citizens Bank because the bank finances the nation’s two largest private prison companies. City officials announced the divestment on Thursday. They said $150…
30 women jailed at the GEO Group-operated Delaney Hall have joined a hunger strike to demand the firing of a guard they say is sexually assaulting detainees: www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...
Jersey City is pulling $265 million in public funds from Citizens Bank because the bank finances the nation’s two largest private prison companies. City officials announced the divestment on Thursday. They said $150 million has already been withdrawn. The rest is coming out in days. “We are not waiting around,” said Councilmember Jake Ephros. Councilmember Jake Ephros The target is Citizens’ role in funding GEO Group and CoreCivic.
About 30 women detainees announced they were joining the action after advocates say many of the men who had launched the strike were transferred out of the Newark facility.www.nj.com
