Hundreds of men inside the North Lake Processing Center in Michigan stopped eating on Monday to protest what they call "humane garbage" conditions. The hunger strike, reported by Newsweek, involves detainees at the GEO Group-operated facility refusing both food and labor assignments. The prisoners are demanding competent doctors and an end to the procedural delays that have kept over 1,000 people trapped behind the facility's walls since it reopened in 2025.

One detainee stated through the activist group No Detention Centers in Michigan that the medical care inside the private prison is non-existent. The GEO Group, which operates the site under a federal contract, is currently the largest private immigration jailer in the Midwest. While the Senate votes to send $70 billion to the agencies that fill these cells, the people inside are literally starving themselves to be seen as humans.

This is the reality of the ‘Mass Deportation Machine.’ It is a profitable industry where the state pays private corporations to warehouse biological bodies in substandard conditions. The physical evidence is in the empty mess halls and the skeletal men in Michigan. They are refusing to participate in their own liquidation, using the only leverage they have left: their own lives.