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Report: Obama Admin Paid Private Prisons $1 Billion to Detain Asylum Seekers

The push to warehouse asylum-seeking women and children in a private facility as a deterrent violates US obligations to international law, says Mark Fleming of the National Immigrant Justice Center Story Transcript JAISAL NOOR, TRNN: The Obama administration bypassed public bidding and secretly gave the private prison giant Corrections Corporation of America, or CCA, a […]