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The Con to Criminalize Immigrants
Corrections Corp, of
America puts profits
over human rights
w ork w as sent to an out-of-date address. A l
E nforcem ent, the D epartm ent o f H o m eland Se
though Pedro G uzm an Perez cam e to the U. S. as
curity, both houses o f C ongress, and oth er
an eig h t-y ear-o ld child, is m arried to a U.S.
governm ent bodies. Five o f C C A 's m ost lucra
citizen, and has an A m erican-born son, he has
tive contracts w ith IC E have no end date. A nd
been held in detention for the past 15
as a result, less funding is going to im m igration
m onths as his case is processed.
policies that m eet basic hum an rights standards.
by C atalina N ieto
In the m eantim e, life in a detention
M eanw hile, C C A ex ecu tiv es, w ho refer to
T he only tim e four-year-old Logan
cen ter can be h arsher than federal lock detained im m igrants as "product," are set to
got to play h ide-and-seek w ith his dad
up. The Stfcwart D etention C enter is run
reap huge profits.
this y ear w as through a Plexiglass w in
by C orrections C orporation o f A m erica
In addition to directing funding tow ards e n
dow at the Stew art D etention C enter in
(C C A ). The com pany prioritizes its profit
forcem ent-only policies that crim inalize im m i
L um pkin, G a., nine hours from his hom etow n.
m argin over m aintaining m inim um standards for
grants, C C A lobbies for im m igration policies
A person m ight be detained in a for-profit
health care. As a result, thousands o f detainees
that get m ore u ndocum ented residents locked
cen ter like S tew art for any num ber o f reasons,
across the country are left suffering in prison
up and thus fill em pty beds. In fact, N PR u n co v
m any o f them bureaucratic. Som e detainees
cells w ithout access to sufficient m edical atten ered the com pany's role not only in lobbying for
w ere seeking refuge in the U nited States as
tion. In M arch 2009, Stew art detainee R oberto
the anti-im m igrant law in A rizona, but also in
victim s o f U .S .-sponsored m ilitary training and
M artinez M edina died o f sim ple infection that
drafting it. C C A already has six detention c e n
atrocities in Latin A m erica. O ther detainees are
w ent untreated at the detention center. Pedro's
ters in A rizona. For C C A , im m igration c ra ck
farm ers, w hose only econom ically viable option
fellow prisoners have resorted to hunger strikes
dow n law s like A rizo n a’s m ean big bucks.
w as to find w ork in the U nited States in order to
to call for b etter conditions.
"W e've never seen the w ind at o u r back like
provide for their fam ilies. T rade policies b en efi
"Y ou show me a for-profit prison and I'll show
it is today," C C A 's president and C E O John D.
cial to A m erican agribusiness are often at the
you a hum an rights violation," said one form er
Ferguson said after discussing $1.3 billion in
root o f this type o f m igration.
Im m igration and Naturalization Service com m is
revenue during a conference call w ith investors.
In L ogan's dad's case, the issue w as b u reau
sioner at a 2009 panel on im m igration detention.
T he federal governm ent is spending $60.50 per
cratic: his elderly m other becam e confused d u r
C C A 's executive team w asn't alw ays sw im
inm ate per day at the detention center.
ing a residency interview and the official p ap er
m ing in m oney. In 1999, independent auditors
A nd that's too bad fo r kids like L ogan, w ho
d o u b te d C C A c o u ld
d id n ’t get to spend C hristm as w ith his dad again
even stay in business
in D ecem ber.
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"E m otionally, it's really hard and m entally
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due to beds left em pty
a vigil at the S tew art D etention C enter. "For my
in its detention centers.
son, I w ant to be there. I w ant to play w ith him ...I
ame
T hen C C A began to
can n o t sm ell him and feel his skin and give him
lobby for harsher im m i
a hug. I w ish I could have that tim e."
elephone
gration policies. From
Every additional day L ogan's dad languishes
ddress
January 2008 to A pril
in at the S tew art D etention C enter, a fam ily is
2010, C C A spent $4.4
further tom apart and C C A 's profit m argin grow s.
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