Thread: Mystery Prison Buses in the Desert

Mystery Prison Buses in the Desert


by Ellen Brown
Global Research, January 22, 2009
Web of Debt


On a recent visit to Tucson, Arizona, where I was invited to give a presentation on monetary reform, I was disturbed by a story of strange goings on in the desert. A little over a year ago, it seems, a new industrial facility sprang up on the edge of town. It was in a remote industrial zone and appeared to be a bus depot. The new enterprise was surrounded by an imposing security fence and bore no outward signs identifying its services. However, it soon became apparent that the compound was in the business of outfitting a fleet of prison buses. Thirty or so secondhand city buses were being reconfigured with prison bars in the windows and a coat of fresh paint bearing the “Wackenhut G4Sâ€

Roster of passengers - DHS - open to the public?

The DHS prison isn't a secret. Here is an article about it from 2007

This Alien Life: Privatized Prisons for Immigrants

by Deepa Fernandes, Special to CorpWatch
February 5th, 2007

The small town of Florence, Arizona, sits at an epicenter of a new boom in private prisons for immigrants. The one-lane highway from Tucson to this desert prison town runs through cacti, red rock, and occasional mountains. Then out of nowhere, a roadside sign breaks the spell: “State Prison: Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers.â€

Florence hosts Arizona’s state prison, two privately run prison complexes, and one Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration jail.

Private and corporate Prisons do not want the undocumented immigrant to dissolve.