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Exposing the Business of Immigrant Detention – CCA
I recently discovered a Reuters report featuring CCA (Corrections Corp of America)–the biggest privatized immigrant detention facility in the United States–almost gloating about the fact that these coming elections won’t make a difference to their company since there will always Read More …
Welcome to America – Here We Make 'Criminals' Out of Jet-Skiers
This news story feeds perfectly into the socio-political construction of the migrant criminal / ‘inmate’ touched upon in the last blog post. It also shows the ludicrousness and tragicomic hilarity of our archipelagos of detention. Two jet skiers that had Read More …
Undocumented Immigrants and Crime – Dispelling Myths
Kyle asked via email whether there are any studies which show that undocumented immigrants commit less crimes than American citizens. The one study we should be familiar with is the one from IPC last year, which is here. This was Read More …
The Immigration Detention Gold Mine
PBS has now done a series on “Immigrant Detainees- A New Profit Center?” giving us a look into how the private corrections industry is profiting from immigrants held in detention facilities. “Sometimes they get food…sometimes they don’t… It’s freezing in Read More …
The Business of Detention
Finally, there is a website dedicated to ‘jailing immigrants for profit.‘ Video credit goes to The Business of Detention