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Private Prison Profits Soar Through Prisoners in the Immigration System

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Private Prison Profits Soar Through Bipartisan Pork by Dave Bennion Published November 26, 2008 @ 08:00AM PST Tom Barry at Border Lines, a blog I just added to my feed list, discusses the commodification of prisoners in the immigration system. Keep in mind that most immigration violations are civil, not criminal, violations. Even crossing the border without a visa is only a misdemeanor. To understand how well the prison business is faring and how immigrants are key to prison profits, you can listen in on the prison firms? quarterly conference calls with major Wall Street investment firms. In early November, the country?s prison corporations reported soaring profits. Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the country?s oldest and largest prison corporation, boasted that it enjoyed a $33...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 28, 2008 (boomark / email).