The Hound | July 31

Hi there,

It’s Friday. The United States is now detaining over 60,000 people in ICE custody — a record — in a rapidly expanding network of facilities that has nearly doubled in size since 2024. Camp East Montana, the largest facility, is a tent complex on a military base that has logged three deaths, 49 regulatory violations, and allegations of guards betting on which detainee would die next. ICE detention deaths are on a record pace in 2026. The government calls these places "processing centers." They are camps.

🖊️ Sign the petition to call on the media to adopt language that matches the reality — and to cover the explosive expansion of ICE detention not as an immigration enforcement story, but as a human rights crisis unfolding on American soil.

Words matter. When journalists use the administration's preferred euphemisms — "detention centers," "processing facilities," "residential centers" — they do the government's framing work for it, softening the public's understanding of what is actually happening. Mass incarceration of civilians in overcrowded, under-resourced, privately operated facilities where people are dying at record rates has a name. Historians and human rights experts have been consistent: these are camps. The public deserves reporting that names what it sees.

In addition, a new bill in Congress could compel companies to bargain with unionizing workers. And Flock cameras heighten the risk of crashes for drivers according to experts.

Read about these, and more, with today’s stories:

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps (The Guardian)

Employers Stall Labor Contracts for Years. A New Bill Could Change That. (The American Prospect)

Flock surveillance cameras can pose a crash risk for drivers, US experts say (The Guardian)

California Does Medicaid Home Care Well. They’re Being Punished For It. (Mother Jones)

India Unleashes "Massive Crackdown" on Youth-Led Cockroach Movement After Education Minister's Ouster (Democracy Now!)

Most Florida Waterways Fail Water Quality Standards as Enforcement Lags (Inside Climate News)

It Was Supposed to Be a Haven for Troubled Teens. They Risked Everything to Escape. (The Marshall Project)

Until next time,

Harry from The Hound

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