About three-quarters of it is for detention and deportations, and the rest is for hiring, local police partnerships, and other costs. Another $36.6 billion remains available for future use.
I recommend watching the film ‘13th’ to see in detail how the prison-industrial complex feeds on mass incarceration. The current mania for detention carried about by private prisons and their hangers-on is just the next chapter in a very old and shameful American story. We have to understand this unsavory system in order to make any progress dismantling it.
These ICE detention camps are a gravy boat for those companies running them. Unlimited funding for the companies and stockholders while providing less than ethical care, food, and medical services for those within.
I recommend watching the film ‘13th’ to see in detail how the prison-industrial complex feeds on mass incarceration. The current mania for detention carried about by private prisons and their hangers-on is just the next chapter in a very old and shameful American story. We have to understand this unsavory system in order to make any progress dismantling it.
How soon can we get those ice agents all arrested if the Dems do take power?
These ICE detention camps are a gravy boat for those companies running them. Unlimited funding for the companies and stockholders while providing less than ethical care, food, and medical services for those within.
It is horrible. Mass incarceration metastasizing.
Let's see how soon they will receive future use...