The Trump administration is considering purchasing a number of private immigrant detention centers across the US. Doing so may allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to bypass state laws geared at curbing abuses in the facilities.
ICE Is Trying to Avoid Oversight by Buying Private Prisons
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/ice-private-detention-abuse-oversight/
4 Comments
NinePeedles@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 161d
One more reason to make private prison illegal.
Tmiwi@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 161d
ProdigiousInsanity@lemmus.org · 7 pts · 161d
Money.
joyjoy@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 161d
If the government is buying private prisons, does that turn it into a public prison? That's nationalization!
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 160d
...with public tax dollars? blah