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Private Prison Industry Ready To Cash In On Trump Presidency
This past summer, the DOJ announced that they were going to end the use of private prisons for government detainees. Apparently the Department of Homeland Security didn’t get the memo, and they are preparing to ship all of Donald Trump’s deportees to private prisons, and the industry is more than happy to be of service. The Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.