ICE detained over 10,000 people nationwide in a five-day span, doubling its daily quota to 2,000 detentions, according to new reporting. Contributing writer Ella Stern breaks down what’s driving the surge, and why it’s happening more quietly than past operations.
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Repeat offense: private prisons resurrection represents pay-to-play
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist, The House of the Dead, 1862 Twenty-four hours after the election of Donald Trump as this nation’s 45th president, the stock prices of privately run prisons in this country soared. And this reversal of fortune came […]