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ICE Is Trying to Avoid Oversight by Buying Private Prisons (jacobin.com)

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The Trump administration is considering purchasing a number of private immigrant detention centers across the US. Doing so may allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to bypass state laws geared at curbing abuses in the facilities.

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[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

If the government is buying private prisons, does that turn it into a public prison? That's nationalization!