This past weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting Emily Guzman and her family as I joined them on a caravan from Durham, NC to Lumpkin, GA where her husband has been detained at the largest private prison facility in the nation, Stewart Detention Center. Stewart is a CCA operated facility that has more inmates [...]

Georgia is the latest state to pass an anti-immigrant bill like SB1070, with Governor Deal having signed it on Friday. Georgia is ALSO home to the largest private prison in the country. Coincidence? Not even close. It’s hardly a secret that private prison corporations like Corrections Corporation of America and The GEO group, along with [...]

It’s the cynicism and ignorance in politician’s statements when it becomes apparent that the motivation behind their actions is not out of concern for the people they represent, but rather out of a personal bias they hold within themselves.  Such is the case with Sen. Bill Cowsert who recently stated the following to members of [...]

This week has been a tremendous learning experience for me. Before I started as a story producer for “Immigrants for Sale,” I didn’t know much about private prisons or their powerful influence on lawmakers—much less that SB 1070 was drafted with the interests of the private prison industry in mind. Within a span of a [...]

Via NPR Last year, two men showed up in Benson, Ariz., a small desert town 60 miles from the Mexico border, offering a deal. Glenn Nichols, the Benson city manager, remembers the pitch. “The gentleman that’s the main thrust of this thing has a huge turquoise ring on his finger,” Nichols said. “He’s a great [...]

$200 per night. $6000 per month. $72,000 per year. That is the average amount private prison corporations like CCA, GEO Group and Management and Training make off of one single detained migrant. Nowadays with SB1070 copycat laws around the country – immigrants (even if they are legal) can be detained for days, weeks even months [...]