In 2020, President Joseph “Joe” Biden pledged to end for-profit immigration detention, emphasizing the moral imperative that “no business should profit from the suffering of desperate people fleeing violence.” However, as the Biden administration embarked on this mission, it encountered numerous challenges.
As of July 2023, 90 percent of the 30,000 individuals in ICE detention were housed in privately operated facilities. Private corporations have seen their revenues from immigrant detention increase exponentially. As the ACLU has stated, it is evident that the federal government's immigration detention system leans heavily on private prison corporations. Notable entities in this sector, including the GEO Group, CoreCivic, LaSalle Corrections, and the Management Training Corporation, have amassed billions from ICE detention contracts over the past two decades.
A recent internal review of detention centers brought into focus the intricate issues surrounding immigration detention and how it currently affects communities, detainees, and the interests of private prison companies.
In 2020, President Joseph “Joe” Biden pledged to end for-profit immigration detention, emphasizing the moral imperative that “no business should profit from the suffering of desperate people fleeing violence.” However, as the Biden administration embarked on this mission, it encountered numerous...
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