Sounding Solidarity at the Suffolk County ICE Immigration Detention Center

Polarized Toward Apathy: An Analysis of the Privatized Immigration-Control Debate in the Trump Era

“…Numerous reports criticize aspects of corporate detention, including its influence and embeddedness in government institutions, exploitation and mismanagement within its facilities, and the infusion of a profit motive into population management (American Civil Liberties Union 2014; Elk and Sloan 2011; Horowitz 2016; Sullivan 2010). These critiques reached a critical point when, in August 2016, President Obama’s Department of Justice announced plans to phase out the use of for-profit prisons that primarily house “criminal aliens.” However, months later, the Trump administration reversed this decision, thereby strengthening its commitment to incarcerating immigrants, most of whom are imprisoned in for-profit facilities (Cullen 2018).…”