Immigration Detention Inc.

Höfundar: Nancy Hiemstra; Deirdre Conlon (Útgáfa: 1)
Immigration Detention Inc.

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“Who knew that hatred driven by racism could be so lucrative?. . . A resounding and meticulously researched exposé” Ravi Ragbir, immigration activist and co-founder of New Sanctuary Coalition “A vital and troubling look at the grotesque practices of the privatized immigration detention industry” Reece Jones, author of Nobody is Protected and White Borders “The most thorough breakdown of the immigration enforcement industrial complex that I have ever read” Todd Miller, journalist and author of Build Bridges, Not Walls The United States has the largest immigration detention system in the world.

In the 1980s, it held fewer than 5,000 people each day. By 2024, that number was 39,000, and today it is increasing sharply again. While Republicans are often the loudest voices against immigration, the detention system expands no matter which party is in power. Immigration Detention Inc. is a damning investigation of the ways immigration detention generates income while those imprisoned are starved, sickened, and exploited on a daily basis.

Drawing on over a decade of research and focusing on detention centers in New Jersey and New York, Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon follow the money to map public and private financial relationships and trace how detention contracts for food, medical care, and in-facility stores are fought over to the penny. By breaking down how immigration detention works, they reveal a profit-driven system that harms and corrupts communities across the U.

S. At a decisive moment in history, the call is clear: dismantle immigration detention systems everywhere. Nancy Hiemstra is the author of Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U. S. Immigration Enforcement Regime. She is Associate Professor at Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York, U. S. Deirdre Conlon is co-editor of Carceral Spaces and (with Hiemstra) of Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention.

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Útgefandi
Pluto Press
ISBN
9780745349480
Print ISBN
9780745349466
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Nancy Hiemstra; Deirdre Conlon
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2025-06-20
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

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  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • Introduction: Immigration Detention Inc.’s Deep Dependencies
  • 1 Probing U.S. Detention’s Unhealthy Growth
  • The spread of immigration detention in the United States
  • The business of detention
  • Facilities of focus and major contractors
  • Researching detention’s inner workings from the outside
  • 2 “Meatballs that smell like fecal matter”: When Bad Food is the Business Model
  • Cut-throat competition in the “corrections” food industry
  • What’s (not) on the plates
  • A system based on bad food, working as designed
  • 3 “Cost Containment” and Litigation: The Institutionalization of Medical Neglect
  • Issues with detention medical care
  • Competitive contracting: litigation, influence, cost over care
  • The ICE Health Services Corps and “public” health
  • Issues that add up to the institutionalization of medical neglect
  • 4 Starved for Profit: How Migrants Become Captive Consumers and Coerced Workers
  • Detention conditions that drive demand for high-cost commissaries
  • The high cost of relying on commissaries
  • Commission rates and county contracts
  • Keefe, private equity, and profiting from detention
  • Captive consumers, exploitable labor, and “voluntary” work programs
  • Saving on labor costs
  • Pushing back against the cycle of exploitation
  • 5 The Accountability Industry: Rubber-stamping Bad Care
  • National Detention Standards
  • ICE inspections
  • Accreditations for sale
  • 6 Breaking Unjust Detention Dependencies
  • Webs of dependence: Private companies
  • Webs of dependence: Local governments and communities
  • Lobbying and revolving doors
  • Breaking the webs depending on detention
  • The deceptive appeal of “Alternatives to Detention”
  • What now?
  • Afterword: Chaos and Cruelty in the First Month of the Second Trump Administration
  • Implications for “immigration detention inc.”
  • Private companies continue to drive detention
  • Sorting fact from fiction in the frenzy to expand detention and deportation
  • Fighting and ending “immigration detention inc.”
  • Notes
  • Index