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VA: Richmond Investors Plan to Cash in on Immigrant Detainees

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Richmond Investors Plan to Cash in on Immigrant Detainees by Jeff Winder Changing immigration enforcement policy has left federal authorities struggling to cope with rapidly rising numbers of detainees. A controversial partnership in Farmville, VA proposes to address the crisis with a 1,040 bed, for-profit immigrant detention center. During 2008, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has conducted raids of historic proportions, arresting hundreds of undocumented workers at a time in Iowa, California, Mississippi and most recently, South Carolina. Virginia has not been immune to this trend. 2008 saw a sharp increase in ICE activity with raids in Amelia, Harrisonburg, northern Virginia and the high-profile arrest of 33 construction workers at the nearly completed Richmond federal courthouse...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 19, 2008 (boomark / email).