think-progress:Millions Spent Lobbying By Private Prison Corporations To Keep A Quota Of Arrested Im
think-progress:Millions Spent Lobbying By Private Prison Corporations To Keep A Quota Of Arrested Immigrants, Report SaysPrivate prison corporations spent $11 million over six years to lobby Congress to keep immigrants in detention centers, a new report released Wednesday found. The Grassroots Leadership report, Payoff: How Congress Ensures Private Prison Profit with an Immigrant Detention Quota, found that lobbying efforts of the two largest private prison corporations have made them the main beneficiaries of aggressive immigration detention policies. For-profit family detention centers have come under scrutiny in recent times as migrant women renewed a hunger strike this week in Texas, demanding that they be released on bond with their children. -- source link
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