Excerpt: How to Close a Camp
Detention was sold as both a law-and-order necessity and an economic opportunity, welding together the racist politics of the drug war with the rise of private prisons.
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John Washington, a reporter at Lookout News, is an investigative journalist and translator based in Tucson. His most recent book, The Case for Open Borders, was published by Haymarket Books in 2024.
Detention was sold as both a law-and-order necessity and an economic opportunity, welding together the racist politics of the drug war with the rise of private prisons.