More than a Jail: Immigration Detention and the Smell of Money
Vera Institute
Jul 11, 2018

“In rural southern Florida, county leaders, working with private investors, attempted to tie the economic well-being of their community to increasing immigrant detention. This is a story of a public jail being used to turn a tax-free profit for investors who wagered on the expansion of punitive and draconian immigration policy.”

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