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- Title
Paying to Be Locked Up: PRIVATE PRISON COMPANIES TREAT IMMIGRANT DETAINEES LIKE CONVICTED CRIMINALS--AND REAP HUGE PROFITS FROM THE PEOPLE THEY HOLD.
- Authors
REITER, KERAMET
- Abstract
The article discusses the detention of immigrants in the U.S. in private prisons run by the firm Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), also known as CoreCivic. Topics include the cost of phone calls for immigrants detains in CCA prisons such as the T. Don Hutto Residential Center, the role of businessman Terrell Don Hutto in founding CCA, and the costs of imprisoning immigrants.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PRIVATE prison industry; IMMIGRANTS; CORRECTIONS Corp. of America; LEGAL status of prisoners; PRISON finance
- Publication
American Scholar, 2019, Vol 88, Issue 1, p18
- ISSN
0003-0937
- Publication type
Article