The Private Prison Industry Is Licking Its Chops Over Trump's Deportation Plans
The Private Prison Industry Is Licking Its Chops Over Trump's Deportation Plans
One reported plan calls for doubling the daily number of detained immigrants.
Madison PaulyFeb. 21, 2017 6:00 AM
In the same executive order that called for the construction of a southern border wall, Trump instructed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to build out its sprawling network of immigration detention centers. Starting "immediately," his order said, ICE should construct new facilities, lease space for immigrants alongside inmates in existing local jails, and sign new contracts—likely with private prison companies.
The scale of that expansion became clearer on February 5, when the Los Angeles Times reported on a memo handed down in late January from White House immigration experts to top Homeland Security officials. The document called for raising the number of immigrants ICE incarcerates daily, nationwide, to 80,000 people.
It's not difficult to guess who profits.
In an earnings call last week, the private prison giant CoreCivic (formerly known as the Corrections Corporation of America, or CCA) announced that it saw the ICE detention expansion as a business opportunity.
"When coupled with the above average rate of crossings along the southwest border, these executive orders appear likely to significantly increase the need for safe, humane, and appropriate detention bed capacity that we have available," CoreCivic President and CEO Damon Hininger said.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/trumps-immigration-detention-center-expansion
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