{"id":926,"date":"2012-08-05T01:09:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T01:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/05\/private-prisons-spend-45-million-on-lobbying\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:28:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:28:36","slug":"private-prisons-spend-45-million-on-lobbying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/08\/05\/private-prisons-spend-45-million-on-lobbying\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Prisons Spend $45 Million on Lobbying, Rake in $5.1 Billion for Immigrant Detention Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"

See on Scoop.it<\/a> – Rights & Liberties<\/a>
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Nearly half of all immigrants detained by federal officials are held in facilities run by private prison companies, at an average cost for each detained immigrant is $166 a night.
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See on Scoop.it – Rights & LibertiesNearly half of all immigrants detained by federal officials are held in facilities run by private prison companies, at an average cost for each detained immigrant is $166 a night.See on truth-out.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1578,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/06\/30\/three-detained-in-kardze-autonomous-tibetan\/","url_meta":{"origin":926,"position":0},"title":"Three Detained in Kardze (autonomous Tibetan prefecture in China’s Sichuan province)","author":"aslam","date":"June 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesThree people, including two nuns, have been detained in separate incidents following protests against Chinese rule in a Tibetan region of Southwestern Sichuan province on Tuesday, according to sources with contacts in the area. 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