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The US’s Secretive Private Prison Industry Is About to Become Much Less Secretive

The US’s Secretive Private Prison Industry Is About to Become Much Less Secretive

Source: Truth Out

Saturday, November 04, 2017 By Brad PolingOccupy.com | Report

Seventy-five miles southwest of San Antonio, Texas, in the expanse of desert between the US/Mexico border and nestled between oil boomtowns of yesteryear, is Dilley, the epicenter of a new battle over immigrants’ rights. The remote town of 4,000 people has enjoyed a hot local economy thanks to its most controversial feature: its private prison.

Dilley houses the nation’s largest family detention center, a 50-acre complex that holds 2,400 detainees every night. The center has become a symbol of the resurgent private prison industry and a reminder of why the Justice Department abandoned these facilities in the first place. . . . Read Complete Report