Trump Administration Has Doubled Private Prison Spending With Most Money Spent on Detaining Immigrants
Newsweek reporter Chantal Da Silva discusses the sharp increase in funding by the Trump Administration of the for-profit private prison company GEO Group, even as overall national incarceration rates in 2017 were at a twenty-year low. In just the first eleven months of fiscal year 2019 over $595 has been obligated to GEO by the Administration, 53 percent of which went to ICE for the detention of immigrants. Justice Strategies’ Executive Director is extensively quoted in this article.