Jul 18 2010

Crazy Prison Industrial Complex Fact of the Day

The U.S. government detained approximately 380,000 people in immigration custody in a variety of about 350 facilities at an annual cost of more than $1.7 billion (source: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org).

Read the article Ties that Bind to better understand how private prison companies are and stand to benefit from the draconian “papers please” Arizona law (S.B. 1070).