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

submitted 6 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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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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[–] NinePeedles@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

One more reason to make private prison illegal.

[–] Tmiwi@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I was just about to comment, why the fuck are privately owned prisons even a thing?

[–] ProdigiousInsanity@lemmus.org 5 points 6 days ago

Money.

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

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

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

...with public tax dollars? blah