Resurgence of Private Prisons

The Resurgence of Private Prisons and the Rise of the Police State By: Glenn Fogle, Esq. for The Immigration Education Project Donald Trump's Attorney General, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, has signaled that he would bring back private prison contracts for Federal prisons which had begun to be phased out by the previous Department of Justice. This is not surprising with the shamelessly corrupt Trump administration because the Trump campaign received large donations from the private prison industry and former Sessions staff are suddenly lobbyists for the industry. The private prison industry makes money on the human bodies it holds--on the taxpayer's dime. [...]