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Private Prisons are Profiting Off Immigrant Detention | Nick Valencia

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Independent journalist Nick Valencia spent months investigating the for-profit prison industry that has quietly taken over ICE detention — and the numbers will make your blood boil. Between $27,000 and $35,000 per bed per month, companies like GEO Group and CoreCivic are posting record revenues while bragging about it openly on earnings calls. Valencia reveals that some detainees who volunteered to self-deport are being kept locked up because empty beds mean lost revenue — and now these same companies are subcontracting bounty hunters to find more people to fill them.

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