ICE Is Trying to Avoid Oversight by Buying Private Prisons

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/ice-private-detention-abuse-oversight/

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.

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NinePeedles@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 161d (2 replies)

One more reason to make private prison illegal.

Tmiwi@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 161d (1 reply)
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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