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Geoff Hing

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Data Reporter @themarshallproject.org. 🧭: Tucson, Arizona 🌵 🌎: geoff.terrorware.com 🦣: mastodon.social/@geoffhing

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Geoff Hing @geoffhing.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Something seems a bit off in this chart from a Pima County memo about the results of a survey about the Chuck Huckleberry Loop. content.civicplus.com/api/assets/a...

Donut chart labeled “Graphic 1. Distribution of Modes of Loop Utilization.” It shows the percentage of respondents who selected different modes of transportation. Nearly 82% responded “Cycling” and more than 58% responded “Walking”. The percentages in the chart labels add up to more than 100%.

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Geoff Hing @geoffhing.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

@eleventimezones.com , from the story:

Screenshot of paragraph of a news story with this text:

At the same time, federal courts are divided regarding the legality of the government's new detention policy. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi and is widely regarded as one of the most conservative federal appeals courts, is one of two that have backed the administration on the policy. Those three states are also home to “Detention Alley,” a cluster of sites that include 14 out of the 20 largest detention facilities in the country. Many are located in remote, rural areas, and together they have helped make the region a major hub for detention and deportation in the south. In the first year of Trump's second term, nearly three-quarters of the people ICE deported were last detained in a state covered by the 5th Circuit.

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Geoff Hing @geoffhing.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Among the findings of my data reporting is an increase in ICE transferring people to another state within 24 hours of being booked into detention.

A stacked bar chart showing the number of people each month who are detained by ICE and transferred to a facility in another state within 24 hours.

The bar segments are colored to show whether the people rapidly transferred after entering detention each month were booked into detention during the Biden administration, shown in light purple, or during the second Trump administration, shown in darker purple. The column for January 2025 has two segments because Trump took office in the middle of the month.

The x-axis of the chart extends from October 2022 on the left to February 2026 on the right.

The y-axis of the chart extends from 0 to 5,000 people.

During the Biden administration, the number of people rapidly transferred each month ranged from fewer than 1,000 to under 2,000, with the exception of October 2023, when around 2,000 people were rapidly transferred. Starting in January 2025, the beginning of the second Trump administration, the heights of the columns notably rise, indicating more people rapidly transferred.

The tallest column is for January 2026, with over 5,000 rapid transfers. The rightmost bar, for February 2026, drops substantially from the previous month, but more than 3,000 people were still detained and rapidly transferred to another state in that month.

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Geoff Hing @geoffhing.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

One dimension of the active resistance around the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility is that so many of the people detained there are from the region around the facility. This table is from @austinkocher.com's analysis of data describing people detained at that facility.

Table showing the number of people detained at the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility by state and facility where they were first booked into detention. It shows that 81.5% of people detained at Delaney Hall were first booked into a facility in New Jersey, including 69.6% first booked into Delaney Hall. Another 15.2% were first booked in at New York facilities.

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Geoff Hing @geoffhing.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Real slop not AI slop! I dropped off my compost while taking a break with my @marshallprojectguild.org co-workers in support of @propublicaguild.org's strike.

Pile of compost at the bottom of a black garbage bin.

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Geoff Hing @geoffhing.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

"Since the summer, nearly all of the growth in ICE detention has come from people without criminal convictions or charges—an area of tremendous sustained growth that contradicts the Trump administration’s narrative that they are focused on the worst of the worst."

Line chart with three lines, each representing the number of people arrested by ICE in immigration detention by criminal status. All lines rise upward looking from left to right, showing an increase since January 2025, but the "Other Immigration Violator" line, shown in orange, has the largest value at the right of the chart (26,044) and shows the sharpest rise. This is the category ICE assigns to people with no known criminal convictions or pending charges.

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Geoff Hing @geoffhing.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

One example of a local business that closed as part of the nationwide shutdown: a local bike shop who papered their windows with flyers for a ride commemorating Alex Pretti, an avid cyclist who federal agents shot as he filmed them.

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Geoff Hing @geoffhing.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A massive, blocks-long march protesting immigration enforcement and broader anti-immigrant policies heads away from its start at the Federal Building in Tucson, Arizona.

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Geoff Hing @geoffhing.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This chart is really striking. It comes from a recent investigation by Calmatters into conditions at California emergency shelters. It makes me think about arguments that emergency shelter should be prioritized instead of furthering Housing First policies. calmatters.org/housing/2025...

Line chart showing the change in the number of emergency shelter beds and the number of people who had lived in shelters who moved into permanent housing.

The chart is titled "A boom in shelter beds didn't translate into more permanent housing".

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Geoff Hing @geoffhing.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I was also fascinated to learn that jails in Southern Arizona held Chinese people forced out of Sonora, Mexico in the early 1930s. This is from Erika Lee’s The Making of Asian America.

Photo of a page of a book. The text of the page describes the expulsion of Chinese from Sonora Mexico and their jailing in Arizona jails on the other side of the border.

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Geoff Hing @geoffhing.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

For @suze.bsky.social's story about a California prison threatened by flooding, we talked to J. Carlee Purdum, a researcher who has studied how emergency management views incarcerated people. www.themarshallproject.org/2023/10/24/c...

Screenshot of a portion of a comic news story. The comic panels are:

A woman with light brown hair slightly past her shoulders and wearing a purple shirt. Next to her is a speech bubble that says "A lot of the planning puts an emphasis on security where incarcerated people are the hazard"

The next panel is a black box with white text that says "Dr. Carlee Purdum is a research assistant professor at the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M where she studies emergency planning in prisons"

Another speech bubble below the black box says "If there's no standard, there's no policy, how can you hold them accountable?"

Below that is a map of the U.S. with the text "States with most counties with high incarceration rates and high risk of environmental disaster." California, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida are highlighted.

Below the map, there are two speech bubbles. The left-hand one says "When there are plans, they're not accessible to the public or experts."

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Geoff Hing @geoffhing.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

From the story about the 11-day power outage: "She took that meat to the hotel and cooked it in a crockpot to share with the other neighbors at the Day’s Inn. ... The next few days, they pooled together a communal meal from $50 gift cards some residents requested from a nearby church"

Screen shot of two paragraphs from a news article about an 11-day power outage at a Tucson mobile home park. The text reads:

The next few days, they pooled together a communal meal from $50 gift cards some residents requested from a nearby church, the St. Vincent de Paul Society Sacred Heart Conference, to shop at Safeway. “None of us had the money to recover the food that was lost,” said Hunter. “The hotel serviced breakfast which was helpful, every day. We all had to go back and forth from the park to the hotel to check on our homes.”

The experience in the Hummingbird shows the ways the lack of official response to extreme heat leaves some of the most vulnerable communities behind. While survivors of a hurricane or flood could get help with lost food or impact to their homes, meager federal support exists for people who lose power amid heat waves.

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Geoff Hing @geoffhing.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

This story does a great job of laying out the history of this kind of enforcement in Chicago.

Screenshot of paragraphs from a news story. The text is:

The latest incidents follow a long-standing pattern of using trespassing charges or other means to target migrant workers in the Chicago area.

In 2003, then-Ald. Margaret Laurino (39th) forced day laborers to vacate a defunct CTA bus station in Albany Park. When the station was ultimately demolished, local advocates accused Laurino of race-based motivation for the teardown and subsequent displacement of the mostly Latino workers.

A few years later, Home Depot officials in west suburban Cicero called police on day laborers, which, according to a 2005 Chicago Tribune report, kicked off a chain of 55 arrests for misdemeanor trespassing.

In 2007, the Chicago Committee For The Right to Work filed a federal lawsuit against Chicago police, the city and a business owner on the grounds of false arrests, wrongful detention and imprisonment, and a violation of First Amendment rights after three men were arrested for trespassing ...

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Geoff Hing @geoffhing.bsky.social · 12/05/2024

There are lots of compelling things in this interview of Brittney Griner by Megan Rapinoe, including bits about how to be a supportive partner or finding a bit of joy out in the desert, but I was particularly interested in some of Griner's reflections on prisons. www.thecut.com/article/brit...

Screenshot of a response to an interview question by Brittney Griner. The text says: B.G.: I have a lot of people come up to me saying just how much they prayed for me to come home; they were so happy, thankful. Even some people who — if I was to stereotype them based on the bumper stickers on their car — I would think they may not be happy with me being back, even they’ll come up and be like, “No matter what, you don’t deserve to be in that prison over there.” And I’m just like, “Thank you, I can appreciate that.” Because what people fail to realize, no matter what is going on or what the case is, you still have rights as an inmate. Even in our country — and it’s not right here, I’m not saying that we have the best jail system because we don’t, we know this — there are still rights that you have. And when they violate those rights it’s not safe. It’s not okay.

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Geoff Hing @geoffhing.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Now the historic lake in which the prisons in Corcoran are built is once again filled with water, with the future, both in terms of more water and extreme heat, looking dangerous.

Illustration of prison with lake water in the forefront and lines indicating heat radiating from the prison buildings. Clouds hang above the prison in the sky.

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