In the 2018 fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 396,448 people were booked into an ICE detention facility, up 22.5% from a year earlier, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Between October and January, apprehensions along the southwest border rose to 201,497, up a third from the same period a year ago. — The Wall Street Journal
According to The Wall Street Journal, the private prison business is booming as a result of the hardline immigration policies of President Donald Trump.
Despite the growing controversies surrounding the government's treatment of detained migrants in increasingly makeshift and inadequate facilities, the industry's growth is expected to continue.
According to WSJ, in a recent research note surveying the business dealings of private prison companies CoreCivic and GEO Group, investment bank SunTust Robinson Humphrey writes, "We expect criminal alien populations housed by the private sector to increase due to heightened enforcement and increased border apprehensions.”
WSJ also writes that over the last year, with new facilities going up from California to Mississippi, private prison companies have fared better financially than many other industries, even amid an overall market rally.
Private prisons are a crime against humanity.
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this ought to be banned. Until then, it ought to be curbed using building code enforcement to make such detainment practices punishable. I don’t understand how these facilities get away with such overcrowding.
Private prisons are a crime against humanity.
Yes. I’d say any imprisonment for non-violent offenses are are a crime against humanity. I personally don’t think that tax revenue should ever ever go to any private industry. That’s highly dangerous in general.
http://www.justicepolicy.org/n...
Despite all these cost-cutting measures, it’s unclear whether private prisons actually save the government any money.
These corporations stand to make more money when more people are sentenced to prison, so they work hard to influence policy and push for harsher sentencing laws. A report from the Justice Policy Institute details how prison corporations use lobbyists, campaign contributions, and relationships with policymakers to further their own political agenda.
Etc.
The report also found that the Bureau of Prison’s monitors tasked with making sure private prisons comply with federal policy regularly failed to ensure inmates were receiving medical care.
And you can be sure that funding for government monitors isn't/won't be adequate.
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