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The Detention of Poor Immigrant Mothers and Children are Money-Making Hustle for Private Prisons

By Ester Yu-Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress.org – During separate conference calls to talk about earnings reports, two of the country’s largest for-profit private prisons indicated that they saw their profits soar from holding immigrant mothers and children in detention centers across the country. Revenues increased during the first quarter of 2016 for both the Corrections Corp. […]

Vice President Harris Lays Out a Bold Vision and Pledges Unity in White House Ellipse Speech