The article discusses the surge in immigration detention in the U.S., with over 48,000 individuals currently held, an increase driven by the administration's push to meet higher detention quotas. ICE’s daily arrest requirements have doubled, prompting a hunt for additional detention space primarily within for-profit private prisons. Companies like Geo Group and CoreCivic are expanding their facilities aggressively, yet advocates worry about the implications of profit-driven detention practices on detainee conditions. Concerns are raised regarding the ethics and standards of care in these privatized systems.
"A for-profit company, by definition, is trying to make money on this whole process. And that means that if there's any place where they can save money, they're going to," says Laura St. John, legal director at the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project in Arizona.
"Even before Trump returned to office in January, a spokesperson for GEO Group told NPR it was investing $70 million toward housing, monitoring and transporting immigrant detainees," highlighting the financial dedication of private firms in the immigration detention sector.
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