Good article from The Nation about the companies profiting from trump detention laws
I was wondering who all takes tax payer money to help create what is happening . I mentioned before we know little about what sub contractors are doing
An added trump Miller benefit -subcontractors don’t need to abide by as many transparency rules or Freedom of Information Act requests, so they can hide what really goes on inside the facilities and stage-manage what information to disclose. If somehow misconduct or abuse is discovered, the government has a layer of plausible deniability: It will just claim it was the private contractor’s fault.
https://www.thenation.com/article/private-contractors-enable-trumps-cruelties-border/
ICE spends roughly $159 per day on detention, paying some middleman to manage, feed, educate, and, in a particularly gruesome development, medicate the children into listlessness. There are far cheaper alternatives, but sinking all that money into a carceral framework makes it difficult to tear it down. Even cities that want to eject private prisons for immigrants are subject to legal pushback from the deep-pocketed contractors.
= new reply since forum marked as read
