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INFORMATION ABOUT FOR-PROFIT PRISONS
With over 1.5 million people behind bars, the United States has the highest incarceration rate of any nation.
The immigration detention bed quota refers to language in congressional appropriations law that requires U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to maintain 34,000 immigration detention beds on a daily basis.
tech company, Global Tel*Link charges more than $1 per minute for families & friends to speak with their loved ones in prison. There is no free market, no competition to drive the price down.Global Tel* Link makes more than $500 million per year from exploiting these vulnerable people.
The prison crisis has disproportionately harmed minorities. If current trends persist, one in four black males born today can expect to be imprisoned during their lifetime. Tragically, 69 percent of African-American men who drop out of high school will end up in jail, according to the most recent statistics.
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