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Citizens Bank Funds ICE
Citizens Financial Group has been a financier of the private prison and detention industry since at least 2012. In 2019, in response to grassroots activists and shareholder pressure, eight of the country’s largest banks ended their relationships with the private prison industry. But Citizens Bank stayed the course.
Since 2012, Citizens has played key roles helping GEO and CoreCivic access more than $2.5 billion in financing, including $100 million in January 2026. You’ve heard the stories that come out of the facilities run by CoreCivic and The GEO Group. 911 dispatchers flooded with calls. Severe medical neglect. Children locked up for months on end. But even as the heartbreaking stories pour out of ICE detention centers, Citizens Bank keeps pouring money into them.
Citizens Bank says it’s committed to fostering strong communities. We’re asking that they live up to that commitment.
ICE detention operators profit from the destruction of our communities—even the imprisonment of children—and by backing them, so does Citizens.
So we’re urging them to end their financial relationships with all private prison and ICE detention and transport companies and publicly commit not to do business with them in the future.