Tag Archives: private prisons
World’s Largest For-Profit Prison Blasted in Federal Audit
The world’s largest for-profit prison has minimal oversight, overcharged the federal government by $2.1 million, arbitrarily punishes protesting inmates and s...Read More
ICE Director to U.S. Rep. Culberson: We Can’t Just Put People in Detention for ‘the Heck of it’
In a heated discussion with ICE Director Paula Saldaña, Houston Congressman John Culberson wondered why the U.S. lets so many immigrant detention beds go empty...Read More
Goodbye to Tent City
After a riot destroys a for-profit prison, Willacy County ponders its economic future.
As Willacy County faces a gaping hole in its budget, $128 million in debt still owed on Tent City, and the loss of its largest employer, I’d come to find out ...Read More
A Careless Solution
Terrell State Hospital needs help, badly. So why is Texas privatizing the psychiatric facility—and picking a notorious company to run it?
Terrell State Hospital needs help, badly. So why is Texas privatizing the psychiatric facility—and picking a notorious company to run it?...Read More
More Prisoners, More Problems: Mass Incarceration Climbs Again
The biggest, best, and newest studies agree that the U.S. needs to incarcerate fewer people. So why are the numbers climbing? Texas is one reason....Read More
The Unnecessary Expense of Immigrant Detention
Proven, common-sense alternatives to detention, including monitoring and case management, are available at a savings of more than $1 billion a year....Read More
Immigrants in Federal Prisons ‘Subjected to Shocking Abuse and Mistreatment’
An ACLU report released Monday claims that Bureau of Prisons policies discriminate against non-citizen inmates and that prisoners are "subjected to shocking abu...Read More
Public Defender: Prison Reform Must Include Undocumented Immigrants
Crime rates have been steadily declining in America, requiring a rethinking of drug prosecutions. So too with immigration prosecutions....Read More
Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses—We Have Private Prisons to Fill
The profits and losses of criminalizing immigrants.
Since 2005, immigration has been criminalized as never before....Read More