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Private Prison Profits Drive Increase in Immigrant Detentions
Loaded on Dec. 11, 2017
by Derek Gilna
by Derek Gilna
Although most of the discussion in the past several months has been the continuing decrease in the number of prisoners in the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to slightly more than 200,000, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) actually confines more than twice as many, …
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