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Deeeeep In The Delta.....
With the kids being snatched from their parents a hot topic, it didn't take long for most to figure out that private prisons were a motivating factor behind it. Well people started doing research and articles like this from 2015 surfaced showing the dirty little secret between CCA (now CoreCivic) and Vandy.
Paul Ryan has also included a $7 billion stimulus package for "child detainment centers" (like the cages that are making news now)
Shackled by Money: How Vanderbilt Helped Spawn the Private Prison Industry
Last month, Bettsy Woodruff wrote in the Daily Beast:“If you’re looking to make some money, try locking up toddlers.” She wasn’t kidding. The Corrections Corporation of America, a for-profit corporation, made $49 million dollars in the last year by housing undocumented infants, toddlers, children, and mothers fleeing Central America in conditions so deplorable they provoked chastisement from a federal judge and Human Rights Watch.
Headquartered about three miles away from our campus, Corrections Corporation of America is the nation’s oldest, largest, and most famous private prison corporation. Through contracts with state governments and the federal immigration services, CCA handles the imprisonment of more than 70,000 inmates at 60 facilities around the country. The number of prisoners in private facilities has expanded from less than 10,000 in 1990 to nearly 130,000 inmates today. For-profit companies are now responsible for “approximately 6% of state prisoners, 16% of federal prisoners, and… nearly half of all immigrants detained by the federal government,” writes the American Civil Liberties Union.
Paul Ryan has also included a $7 billion stimulus package for "child detainment centers" (like the cages that are making news now)
Shackled by Money: How Vanderbilt Helped Spawn the Private Prison Industry
Last month, Bettsy Woodruff wrote in the Daily Beast:“If you’re looking to make some money, try locking up toddlers.” She wasn’t kidding. The Corrections Corporation of America, a for-profit corporation, made $49 million dollars in the last year by housing undocumented infants, toddlers, children, and mothers fleeing Central America in conditions so deplorable they provoked chastisement from a federal judge and Human Rights Watch.
Headquartered about three miles away from our campus, Corrections Corporation of America is the nation’s oldest, largest, and most famous private prison corporation. Through contracts with state governments and the federal immigration services, CCA handles the imprisonment of more than 70,000 inmates at 60 facilities around the country. The number of prisoners in private facilities has expanded from less than 10,000 in 1990 to nearly 130,000 inmates today. For-profit companies are now responsible for “approximately 6% of state prisoners, 16% of federal prisoners, and… nearly half of all immigrants detained by the federal government,” writes the American Civil Liberties Union.