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How Private Prisons Game the Immigration System
Fang, Lee
http://www.thenation.com/article/how-private-prisons-game-immigration-system/Date Written: 2013-02-27 Publisher: The Nation Year Published: 2013 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX21902 With huge profits at stake, CCA and the Geo Group are pushing discreetly for enforcement-heavy immigration reform. Abstract: - Excerpt: Thirty years ago in January, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), now the biggest operator of private prisons in the world, opened its first prison, a federal immigrant detention center in Houston, Texas. Three Decades of Service to America, a page on the company's website, features a video interview with the company's founders looking back on that first contract. "We saw this big ol' sign, 'Olympic Motel,' made an offer to lease the motel for four months," recalls Don Hutto, who chuckles with fellow co-founder Tom Beasley, the former chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party, as they remember hastily converting the building and staffing it with family members. The night of Super Bowl Sunday, "we got our first day's pay for eighty-seven undocumented aliens," says Hutto, who even fingerprinted the inmates himself. Subject Headings
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