{"id":279,"date":"2015-02-22T01:55:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T01:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/22\/inmates-took-over-a-part-of-a-private-immigration\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:25:41","slug":"inmates-took-over-a-part-of-a-private-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2015\/02\/22\/inmates-took-over-a-part-of-a-private-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmates took over a part of a private immigration prison in Texas."},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Reuters) – Law enforcement said they were making progress on Saturday ending a disturbance at a federal correctional facility in southern Texas were as many as 2,000 inmates were protesting medical services…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The primary purpose of these prisons, and of the imprisonment of their inmates, is to profit the owners or share holders of the prisons. Fusion.net published an investigative report<\/a> on this earlier this month:<\/p>\n

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The U.S. government has quietly created a second-class federal prison system specifically for immigrants. For years the Department of Homeland Security has been known as the agency that houses immigrants awaiting deportation. However, tens of thousands of additional immigrants, most serving sentences for immigration crimes, are held by the Bureau of Prisons each night before being sent back.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s all part of a lucrative business model which has funneled billions of taxpayer dollars into the private prison industry.<\/p>\n

A Fusion investigation found that without a single vote in Congress, officials across three administrations: created a new classification of federal prisons only for immigrants; decided that private companies would run the facilities; and filled them by changing immigration enforcement practices.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inmates took over a part of a private immigration prison in Texas.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Reuters) – Law enforcement said they were making progress on Saturday ending a disturbance at a federal correctional facility in southern Texas were as many as 2,000 inmates were protesting medical services… The primary purpose of these prisons, and of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[178,279,282],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-immigration","tag-prisons","tag-profit","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1298,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/11\/beyond-guantanamo-a-web-of-prisons-for-terrorism\/","url_meta":{"origin":279,"position":0},"title":"Beyond Guant\u00e1namo, a Web of Prisons for Terrorism Inmates","author":"aslam","date":"December 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - 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