Monsy Alvarado, Ashley Balcerzak, Stacey Barchenger, Jon Campbell, Rafael Carranza, Maria Clark, Alan Gomez, Daniel Gonzalez, Trevor Hughes, Rick Jervis, Dan Keemahill, Rebecca Plevin, Jeremy Schwartz, Sarah Taddeo, Lauren Villagran, Dennis Wagner, Elizabeth Weise, Alissa Zhu, USA TODAY Networkwas attending the grand opening of a Louisiana prison in 1997 when a sheriff mentioned he’d like a new jail but didn’t want to operate it. McConnell saw money in that moment.
Network reporters interviewed 35 current or former detainees and reviewed hundreds of documents from lawsuits, financial records and government contracts and toured seven ICE facilities from. They found that private prison companies established close ties with officials from the very top of the federal government all the way down to the local level, currying favor with sheriffs and city officials who often serve as middlemen to secure big-money ICE contracts.
Young migrants use computers inside a classroom in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.David Venturella, senior vice president of client relations at GEO Group, one of the two largest companies detaining immigrants, said his company has been doing the same work for more than 30 years.
Another increase in immigration detention came around 2008. The prison boom of the 1990s was beginning to level off just as the Great Recession hit. A number of states moved away from private prisons as a way to cut costs, making the federal government’s steadily increasing use of immigration detention a more stable, promising source of revenue.
“You have this fertile ground for ICE and the federal government to move in to pay two or three times as much,” said Jamila Johnson, managing attorney at the Promise of Justice Initiative, a New Orleans-based nonprofit organization focused on criminal justice changes in the state. The giants in the field – GEO Group and CoreCivic – have operated private prisons for more than 35 years. They manage 41 facilities that hold more than half of all detainees in ICE custody.
Detainees are given this set of clothing when they arrive at the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas.“It was because they were becoming less and less popular on the stock market, partly due to how badly they ran their facilities,” said Judy Green, group that focuses on changing the criminal justice and immigration systems.
Yea, let's not forget the number of illegal immigrants coming through and how all you bleeding hearts were crying about them being over crowded. What did you expect, just to let them all wander around with no food, no money, no roof over their heads. That is cruel!
Good!
Another thing he has made profitable. This man is a genius.
Why not. The private prison industry has an enthusiastic fan in Trump- staying at his resorts and giving him huge contributions. Also, Miller loves punishing brown folks.
⬇️ Is this still a talking point today? ⬇️ No one is above the law
If only we had his tax return to see if he was making money off this...
A USA TODAY Network investigation found that the companies operating those centers have generated record-setting revenues since 2016 while making record-setting political donations — primarily to Republicans including Trump.
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