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The role of profit motives in private prison contracting, including concerns about cost-cutting and its impact on medical care and oversight.
Since passage of the 2025 “One Big, Beautiful Bill” (also reported as H.R. 1 or the 2025 reconciliation bill), reporting shows the primary private prison companies that have won new or expanded ICE de...
—principally and —have spent millions on campaign contributions and lobbying aimed at immigration and detention policy, creating clear financial ties to politicians who shape detention policy; those t...
Private prison contracts have shaped medical care standards in ICE detention by creating layered responsibilities, financial incentives to cut costs, and variable application of the highest detention ...