As Feds Close Prisons Run by Private Companies, Will They Do Same for Immigrant Detention Centers?
August 19, 2016
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4:25Now PlayingAs Feds Close Prisons Run by Private Companies, Will They Do Same for Immigrant Detention Centers?
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as posted by the channelThe DOJ’s announcement that it will phase out federal prisons operated by private prison companies will have no direct impact on private immigrant detention facilities, which are operated by the same companies under contracts with the Department of Homeland Security. Detention Watch Network has now called for DHS "to follow suit and break their ties with private prison companies that operate more than half of ... U.S. immigrant detention facilities as a step towards ending detention completely." We get more details from Democracy Now! correspondent Renée Feltz, who notes the detention centers hold people who have committed civil offenses, and children as young as two years old.
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