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Case Management Instead of Jailing Asylum-Seeking Mothers, Children for Profit [News.UTexas.edu]

 

If there is anything to be learned from recent political events, it is that the public does not want to see corporations grow rich off of the suffering of families. Yet, it’s something we see daily in Texas. It is time to end the imprisonment of mothers and children who seek asylum protection in the U.S. after fleeing violence in Central America and other troubled countries.  

Family detention allows for-profit prison corporations to treat children as commodities whose imprisonment provides a bonanza for company revenues. Two of the three family detention centers in the U.S. are operated in Texas by private prison companies, the Geo Group and CoreCivic (previously the Corrections Corporation of America). 

[For more of this story, written by Denise Gilman, go to https://news.utexas.edu/2017/0...amp;utm_medium=email]

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