Congress Told Ice To Detain Fewer People. Instead It Keeps Adding Private Prisons.

Noah Lanard, Mother Jones
Thu, 08/22/2019 - 12:56pm

In a now familiar pattern, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has started sending immigrants to another for-profit jail in the Deep South. Mother Jones has learned that the latest addition to ICE’s rapidly expanding southern detention network is the LaSalle Correctional Center in Olla, Louisiana, a jail run by the private prison company LaSalle Corrections.

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