US EditionTakeaways From AP's Reporting on Shuttered Prisons, Mass Deportation Push and No-Bid Contracts
- Private prison operators are promoting their closed facilities to federal immigration officials due to an increased demand for detention beds.
- The Trump administration aims to expand the detainment capacity for migrants from 41,000 to potentially over 150,000 beds.
- Geo Group recently modified a contract to reopen a detention center in Georgia to hold 1,868 migrants, highlighting high demand.
- ICE authorized nine contracts for 10,312 beds without 'Full and Open Competition,' citing a national emergency at the U.S. border with Mexico.
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Dark money ads target Kansas mayor after town pushed back against private prison • Kansas Reflector
Leavenworth Mayor Holly Pittman, right, waits with Nancy Bauder, mayor pro-tem, center, and Scott Peterson, city manager, for a court hearing regarding CoreCivic's private prison. Pittman is being targeted in political action committee social media ads. (Morgan Chilson/Kansas Reflector) TOPEKA — A political action committee targeted Leavenworth’s mayor on social media in May for her “liberal agenda,” accusing her of holding back progress in the …
The mass expulsion of migrants from the United States, as President Donald Trump now wants, would have serious economic consequences. "You don't just lose people, you lose economic capacity," says macro-economist Edin Mujagić in 'Are there still questions' on Radio 1.
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Takeaways from AP's reporting on shuttered prisons, mass deportation push and no-bid contracts
Private prison operators are marketing their shuttered lockups to federal immigration officials as President Donald Trump pushes for mass deportations, with some facilities nabbing lucrative no-bid contracts.
Leavenworth, Kansas, occupies a mythical space in the history of American crime, its name alone evokes an abbreviation about serving harsh sentences. The federal prison housed gangsters like Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly, in a building so legendary that it inspired the term “the big house” for prisons.
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