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Common Dreams: Corruption in Plain Sight’: AOC Warns Laken Riley Act a Boon to Private Prison Industry

“That would likely mean tens of billions in taxpayer funds sent to private prison companies. They are salivating.” 


In an article revealing the private prison industry’s profit-driven interest in the Laken Riley Act, Common Dreams highlights a piece by our VP of U.S. Advocacy, Anthony Enriquez, exposing how private prisons stand to gain a multibillion-dollar, taxpayer-funded windfall by profiting from the inhumane and extreme treatment of migrants.

Read the full article here.