How the criminalization of immigrants profits capitalists

ungovernable · May 20, 2011

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Immigrants are for sale in this country. Sold to private prison corporations who are locking them up for obscene profits!

Here are the top 3 things YOU need to know about the Private Prison money scheme:

The victims: Private prisons don't care about who they lock up. At a rate of $200 per immigrant a night at their prisons, this is a money making scheme that destroys families and lives.

The players: CCA (Corrections Corporation of America), The Geo Group and Management and Training corporations—combined these private prisons currently profit more than $5 billion a year.

The money: These private prisons have spent over $20 million lobbying state legislators to make sure they get state anti-immigrant laws approved and ensure access to more immigrant inmates.

Be a part of the movement to follow the players, the money and the victims of this money making scheme @ immigrantsforsale.org

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$200 per night. $6000 per month. $72,000 per year. That is the average amount private prison corporations like CCA, GEO Group and Management and Training make off of one single detained migrant.

Nowadays with SB1070 copycat laws around the country – immigrants (even if they are legal) can be detained for days, weeks even months until they can prove their status. No wonder why these laws are profitable when Immigrants Are For Sale To the highest bidder.

— Axel Caballero, Cuentame co-founder, producer.

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Via KalwNews

John Burnett’s piece on today’s Morning Edition covered some Texas towns’ disillusionment with private prisons and jails. Texas has more privately run correctional facilities than any other state. As Burnett points out, small towns all over the state allowed (and in some cases, courted) companies like GEO Group and the Corrections Corporation of America only to find that once beds weren’t being filled in all these new jails and prisons, the structures became economic blights on the community.

Meanwhile, private prisons have become a $5 billion dollar industry. With a downward trend in incarceration, how has the private sector continued to grow?

A related piece in Business Week a couple weeks ago explains the phenomenon. In his story, “A Boom Behind Bars,” Graeme Wood illustrates how CCA and other private prison operators are cashing in on the crackdown on illegal immigration– sparking a new prison boom. Wood writes that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pays CCA “about $90 a day per person to keep immigrants behind bars and to manage every aspect of detainees’ lives, running its prison much as the government does. The main difference is that CCA locks people up for profit.”

And, according to public employee unions and prisoners rights groups, the profitable nature of the enterprise creates a built in conflict of interest: “When every prisoner is a daily $100 bill, say these opponents, you’ll do everything you can to get as many of them as you can.”

Wood, who visited a facility in Texas, found some merit in that point:

“Last year we removed more criminals out of this office than from any office across the country,” Tai Nguyen, the ICE assistant field office director, says with some pride, as he leads a tour through the Houston Processing Center. “And typically, we always exceed last year’s numbers.” The CCA facility’s volume has grown so fast that in 2005, as the illegal immigrant crackdown began in earnest, it underwent an expansion and overhaul that doubled its bed space. In that year alone, ICE nationwide increased its demand for beds from 19,000 spaces to 27,000, as a result of stricter enforcement of immigration law under Michael Chertoff’s Homeland Security Dept.

Further fueling the argument, NPR reported last year that CCA lobbied to pass SB 1070, Arizona’s controversial plan for immigration crack-down–a story they say is overblown.

But “whether or not CCA is responsible for the recent surge in demand,” Wood writes, “the boom is under way.”

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butcher · May 20, 2011

Re: How the criminalization of immigration profits to capitalists

Down under, we gotz Serco to lock up the (evil, queue-jumping, job stealing, dole bludging, sharia law making, drug taking, brown) kiddies for us, it helps me feel safe at night. Although plans are to ship'em to Malaysia for 'processing'.

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