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In mid-May 2018, social media users began encountering a photograph of a bus outfitted with child safety seats, which was described in accompanying text as depicting a special prison bus for babies use by a private prison company running detention facilities for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency: Certainly the handling and treatment of undocumented children caught crossing the U.S. border has been a subject of controversy going back several years, but whether the vehicle pictured above should justifiably be described as a special prison bus for babies is a subjective matter. U.S. Immigrations and Custom Enforcement (ICE) maintains a family detention facility for undocumented immigrants called the Karnes County Residential Center in Karnes City, Texas. That center is managed by GEO Group, Inc., a private company specializing in corrections and detention facilities. According the GEO Group's own description, the Karnes facility houses women with children, and it provides educational services (as well monthly field trips) to the school age children held there: The photograph displayed above was featured in a 29 April 2016 Geo Group press release (no longer online; but similar descriptions were used on page 7 of this report), describing the purchase of two New Specialized Transport Buses outfitted with convertible child safety seats, intended to be used to carry children ranging from ages 4 to 17 for medical treatment, to court appointments, and on monthly offsite field trips: So yes, the photograph in question depicts a bus purchased to ferry children being held at an immigrant detention center to medical/legal appointments and recreational functions. Whether that makes it a prison bus for babies or merely a transport vehicle outfitted for children is in the eye of the beholder.
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