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August 2, 2012

BIG MONEY IN IMMIGRANT DETENTION CENTERS

http://www.mycuentame.org/california_court_orders_ease_of_prison_over

population_but_immigrant_detention_centers_to_make_up_for_lost_profit

MIAMI -- The U.S. is locking up more illegal immigrants than ever, generating
lucrative profits for the nation's largest prison companies, and an Associated
Press review shows the businesses have spent tens of millions of dollars
lobbying lawmakers and contributing to campaigns. The cost to American taxpayers
is on track to top $2 billion for this year, and the companies are expecting
their biggest cut of that yet in the next few years thanks to government plans
for new facilities to house the 400,000 immigrants detained annually.After a
decade of expansion, the sprawling, private system runs detention centers
everywhere from a Denver suburb to an industrial area flanking Newark's airport,
and is largely controlled by just three companies. The growth is far from over,
despite the sheer drop in illegal immigration in recent years.

PROTESTERS ARRESTED FOR TRESPASSING

http://www.gpb.org/news/2010/11/

19/protesters-arrested-for-trespassing

In 2011, nearly half the beds in the nation's civil detention system were in
private facilities with little federal oversight, up from just 10 percent a
decade ago. The companies also have raked in cash from subsidiaries that provide
health care and transportation. And they are holding more immigrants convicted
of federal crimes in their privately-run prisons. The financial boom, which has
helped save some of these companies from the brink of bankruptcy, has occurred
even though federal officials acknowledge privatization isn't necessarily
cheaper. This seismic shift toward a privatized system happened quietly. While
Congress' unsuccessful efforts to overhaul immigration laws drew headlines and
sparked massive demonstrations, lawmakers' negotiations to boost detention
dollars received far less attention.

A BLOW AGAINST THE PRISOM COMPLEX

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/17/

a-blow-against-the-prison-industrial-complex/

The industry's giants -- Corrections Corporation of America, The GEO Group, and
Management and Training Corp. -- have spent at least $45 million combined on
campaign donations and lobbyists at the state and federal level in the last
decade, the AP found. CCA and GEO, who manage most private detention centers,
insist they aren't trying to influence immigration policy to make more money,
and their lobbying and campaign donations have been legal. "As a matter of
long-standing corporate policy, CCA does not lobby on issues that would
determine the basis for an individual's detention or incarceration," CCA
spokesman Steve Owen said in an email to the AP. The company has a website
dedicated to debunking such allegations.

ICE PULLS PLUG ON DETENTION

CENTER DUE TO PUBLIC OUTCRY

http://prisondivestment.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/ice-pul

ls-plug-on-immigration-detention-center-in-southwest-ranches/

GEO, which was part of The Wackenhut Corp. security firm until 2003, and
Management and Training Corp. declined repeated interview requests. Advocates
for immigrants are skeptical of claims that the lobbying is not meant to
influence policy. "That's a lot of money to listen quietly," said Peter
Cervantes-Gautschi, who has helped lead a campaign to encourage large banks and
mutual funds to divest from the prison companies. The detention centers are
located in cities and remote areas alike, often in low-slung buildings
surrounded by chain-link fences and razor wire. U.S. Immigrations and Customs
Enforcement agents detain men, women and children suspected of violating civil
immigration laws at these facilities.

ABOUT THE CCA RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Shttp://www.cca.com/cca-research-institute/

Most of those held at the 250 sites nationwide are illegal immigrants awaiting
deportation, but some green card holders, asylum seekers and others are also
there. The total average nightly cost to taxpayers to detain an illegal
immigrant, including health care and guards' salaries, is about $166, ICE
confirmed only after the AP calculated that figure and presented it to the
agency. That's up from $80 in 2004. ICE said the $80 figure didn't include all
of the same costs but declined to provide details.Pedro Guzman is among those
who have passed through the private detention centers. He was brought to the
U.S. by his Guatemalan mother at age 8. He was working and living here legally
under temporary protected status but was detained after missing an appearance
for an asylum application his mother had filed for him. Officials ordered him
deported.  Although he was married to a U.S. citizen,

ICE considered him a flight risk and locked him up in 2009: first at a private
detention facility run by CCA in Gainesville, Ga., and eventually at CCA's
Stewart Detention Center, south of Atlanta. Guzman spent 19 months in Stewart
until he was finally granted legal permanent residency. "It's a millionaire's
business, and they are living off profits from each one of the people who go
through there every single night," said Guzman, now a cable installer in Durham,
N.C. "It's our money that we earn as taxpayers every day that goes to finance
this." The federal government stepped up detentions of illegal immigrants in the
1990s, as the number of people crossing the border soared. In 1996, Congress
passed a law requiring many more illegal immigrants be locked up.

RACE AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

http://irishgreeneyes-welcometomyworld.blogspot.co

m/2011/05/race-and-americas-criminal-justice_11.ht

But it wasn't until 2005 - as the corrections companies' lobbying efforts
reached their zenith - that ICE got a major boost. Between 2005 and 2007, the
agency's budget jumped from $3.5 billion to $4.7 billion, adding more than $5
million for custody operations. Dora Schriro, who in 2009 reviewed the nation's
detention system at the request of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano,
said nearly every aspect had been outsourced. "ICE was always relying on others
for responsibilities that are fundamentally those of the government," said
Schriro, now the New York City Correction Commissioner. "If you don't have the
competency to know what is a fair price to ask and negotiate the most favorable
rates for the best service, then the likelihood that you are going to overspend
is greater."

Private companies argue they can save Americans money by running the centers
more cheaply. Pablo Paez, a spokesman for Boca Raton, Fla.-based GEO, said in an
email his company supports public-private partnerships which "have been
demonstrated to achieve significant cost savings for the taxpayers." He declined
to answer specific questions But ICE Executive Associate Director for
Enforcement and Removal Operations Gary Mead said the government has never
studied whether privatizing immigrant detention saves money. "They are not our
most expensive, they are not our cheapest" facilities, he said. "At some point
cost cannot be the only factor." One fundamental difference between private
detention facilities and their publicly-run counterparts is transparency.

PRIVATE PRISONS PROFIT FROM IMMIGRANT CRACKDOWN

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/07/private-pri

sons-immigration-federal-law-enforcement_n_1569219.html

The private ones don't have to follow the same public records and access
requirements. President Barack Obama has asked for less detention money this
year and encouraged the agency to look at alternatives to locking people up. He
also ordered DHS to stop deporting young immigrants brought to the U.S.
illegally, which could reduce the number behind bars. Congress, however, can
approve more detention spending than DHS requests. Beyond civil detention
centers, private companies are also making more money locking up non-citizens
who commit federal crimes. To deter illegal border crossers, federal prosecutors
are increasingly charging immigrants with felonies for repeatedly entering the
country without papers. That has led thousands of people convicted of illegal
re-entry, as well as more serious federal offenses, to serve time in private
prisons built just for them.

A decade ago, more than 3,300 criminal immigrants were sent to private prisons
under two 10-year contracts the Federal Bureau of Prisons signed with CCA worth
$760 million. Now, the agency is paying the private companies $5.1 billion to
hold more than 23,000 criminal immigrants through 13 contracts of varying
lengths. CCA was on the verge of bankruptcy in 2000 due to lawsuits, management
problems and dwindling contracts. Last year, the company reaped $162 million in
net income. Federal contracts made up 43 percent of its total revenues, in part
thanks to rising immigrant detention. GEO, which cites the immigration agency as
its largest client, saw its net income jump from $16.9 million to $78.6 million
since 2000. "Another factor driving growth ... for the private sector is in the
area of immigration and illegal immigration specifically," Chief Financial
Officer Brian Evans told investors in GEO's 2011 3rd quarter earnings call.

IMMIGRANT DETENTION CENTERS DEEMED INHUMANE

http://restorefairness.org/tag/corrections-corporation-of-america/

CCA warned in its 2011 annual earnings report that federal policy changes in
"illegal immigration could affect the number of persons arrested, convicted, and
sentenced, thereby potentially reducing demand for correctional facilities to
house them." Utah-based Management and Training is not publicly held, so it does
not post earnings. At just the federal level, these companies, their political
action committees and their employees have spent more than $32 million on
lobbying and on campaign contributions since 2000 - with the national political
parties getting the largest campaign contributions. An AP review of Federal
Election Commission data found the prison companies and their employees gave to
key congressional leaders who control how much money goes to run the nation's
detention centers and who influence how many contracts go to the private sector.
James Thurber,

head of American University's Center for Congressional & Presidential Studies,
said amid the heated national debate over immigration, the companies have been
savvy not to donate heavily to those sponsoring legislation, which could spark
backlash. There are more discrete and more powerful ways to influence policy,
Thurber said. "Follow the money," he said. "If the money is being increased
significantly for illegal immigration, then that is a shift in policy ... a
significant shift." The top beneficiaries of the campaign contributions include:
. The Republican Party. Its national and congressional committees received
around $450,000. Democrats received less than half that. . Arizona Republican
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) received $71,000, mostly during his failed
presidential bid against Obama,

CRETE REJECTS DETENTION CENTER PLAN

http://will.illinois.edu/news/spotstory/cr

ete-trustees-reject-detention-center-plan/

well after he dropped support for a bill that would have given illegal
immigrants a path to citizenship and reduced detentions. . House Speaker John
Boehner (R-Ohio) received $63,000. . U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) received about
$59,000. Rogers chaired the first subcommittee on Homeland Security and heads
the powerful House Appropriations Committee. He often criticizes ICE for not
filling more detention beds. . Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill First
(R-Tenn.) received $58,500. The lawmaker from Tennessee, where CCA is
headquartered, led the Senate at the height of the nation's immigrant detention
build up from 2003 to 2007. More than campaign contributions, though, the
private prison companies spent most of their money each year on lobbying in
Washington, peaking in 2005 when they spent $5 million.

In just 2011, CCA paid the Washington firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
$280,000 in part to "monitor immigration reform," federal reports show. They
also lobbied heavily against a bill that would force them to comply with the
same open records requirements governing public facilities. Owen, the CCA
spokesman, said the company ramped up lobbying to acquaint new lawmakers with
the industry. "In recent years, federal elections have been very volatile,
resulting in a lot of new faces in Washington," he said. "The result of that
volatility means a lot of people at the federal level who may not be familiar
with the work we do."

PRIVATE PRISONS AND IMMIGRANT DETENTION

http://www.examiner.com/article/take-a-look-

at-private-prisons-and-immigration-detention

The prison companies' influence at the state level mirrors that in Washington,
although the money is even harder to track since many states, such as Arizona
and Illinois, where the companies have won lucrative detention contracts, don't
require corporations to disclose what they pay lobbyists. The AP reviewed
campaign contribution data from the three companies' political action committees
and their employees over the last decade, compiled by the National Institute on
Money in State Politics. From 2003 to the first half of 2012, state candidates
and political parties in the 50 states received more than $5.32 million.  In the
10 states where the companies' committees and employees contributed the most,

 the AP found they also spent at least $8 million more lobbying local officials
in the last five years alone. It is impossible to know how much of this lobbying
money was aimed only at immigrant-related contracts. But that money generally
went to states along the border, such as Florida and Texas, which have high
numbers of immigrants, as well as states such as Georgia and Louisiana, where
large numbers of immigrants also are detained. ICE has begun providing more
oversight as part of the Obama administration's pledge to overhaul the nation's
system for jailing immigration offenders. It recently scrapped plans for CCA to
build a 1,500-bed immigrant detention center in a high-end Miami suburb
following months of local protests.But it remains committed to adding more
private beds. Plans are on track to build or expand private immigration jails in
Newark, N.J., in the suburbs of Chicago and along a lonely stretch of
California's Mojave Desert.

Garance Burke & Laura Wides-Munoz

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/08/02/immigrants-

prove-highly-profitable-for-private-prison-companies/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FREEDOMSFORUM/message/167046

PRIVATE PRISON WILL HOUSE IMMIGRANTS IN SO.CAL.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/06/private-firm-will-

house-up-to-1300-immigration-detainees-in-southern-california.html

VIDEO - PRISONS PROFIT FROM AND

PUSH ANTI-IMMIGRANT LEGISLATION

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU2vo2qk6VM

VIDEOS - WAR & PRISONS

DRIVING IMMIGRATION POLICY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el-FTjfWYwc

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