Private Prisons sell people like products • Immigrants for Sale • Part 1 • BRAVE NEW FILMS
Private prisons such as the CCA (Corrections Corporation of America) own over 200 facilities in the nation and makes a profit close to 5 billion dollars per year on inmates. They rely on anti-immig...
========== The detention of migrants is a multi-billion
dollar industry.One in which immigrants are traded like products.
They are for sale to the highest bidder. Whobenefits? Who profits?Corrections corporation of America, or CCA,
the GEO Group, and the Management and TrainingCorporation combined own over 200 facilities
in the nation.With over 150,000 bed spaces for a total profit
of close to five billion dollars per year.Private prisons profit like a hotel. The more
occupants that go in, the more money comesout."You just sell it like you were selling cars,
or real estate, or hamburgers."Private prisons rely on anti-immigrant laws
that guarantee them access to fresh inmates.Here's how they do it. The American Legislative
Exchange Council, or ALEC...