...for those companies, such as Corrections Corporation of America, our largest private prison and detention company. But it is not only American companies that are doing well; it is a multi-million dollar international industry. The United Nations estimates that one in every 122 people on the planet is displaced. These are the people placed in these centers, although most of them are not criminals in any way; many are children.
Our Congress supports these centers. They mandate that at least 34,000 people be housed daily in detention centers.
We should look more to government-controlled detention centers as private immigration detention centers are more crowded than state-run ones, and detainees in them have less access to educational programs and quality medical care. This means mental health care, outdoor activities and healthy food are far less available in private detention centers than at those run by the government.
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