How ICE Detentions Make Private Prison CEOs Richer
We talked to detainees and prison guards to unearth the violent and inhumane conditions at private prisons. “In these places, human rights don’t exist. You don’t even exist as a human,” one former detainee told us. Meanwhile, the CEO of private prison company CoreCivic is worth $20 million.
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@th-cc6ei
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
Increase the death penalthy requirements to include everyone doing more than 10 years. Rapid fire executions too, no more sitting in prison for decades.
@MissJudyJetson
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
Unless they are convicted murderers, child molesters or rapest I don't think they should be in these types of prisons. Shouldn't matter citizenship, race or gender.
@bluesteel1
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
Communism collapsed. Now Capitalism will too. The best point is somewhere in the middle
@KickerInnnerstinker
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
Welcome to the future !
@bargemouvier
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
Pam Bondi sounds so fucking evil overall.
@libs4life
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
These places look like a resort compared to your standard county jail
@C01dEyes
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
Check it, since 1516, minds attacked and overseen
Now crawl amidst the ruins of this empty dream
With their borders and boots, on top of us
Pullin' knobs on the floor, of their toxic metropolis
But how you gonna get what you need to get?
The gut eaters, blood drenched get offensive like Tet
The fifth sun sets get back reclaim
The spirit of Cuauhtémoc, alive and untamed
Now face the funk now blastin' out your speaker
On the one – Maya, Mexica
That vulture came to try and steal your name but now you got a gun
Yeah, this is for the people of the sun!
Yeah, never forget that the whip snapped ya back
Your spine cracked for tobacc-oh, I'm the Marlboro Man, uh
Our past blastin' on through the verses
Brigades of taxi cabs rollin' Broadway like hearses
Troops strippin' zoots, shots of red mist
Sailors blood on the deck, come sister resist
From the era of terror, check this photo lens
Now the City of Angels does the ethnic cleanse, uh
Heads bobbin' to the funk out your speaker
On the one – Maya, Mexica
That vulture came to try and steal your name but now you found a gun
You're history! This is for the people of the sun
It's comin' back around again!
This is for the people of the sun!
@tylerkinley268
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
The government run jails and prisons are bad enough. Privatizing custody over people is a terrible idea.
Edit: hearing that CEO talk about being excited about the prospects. Ugh
@SLICKNICKv87
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
Evey non needs to be deported. The naturalization act of 1790 set in stone who should be here. Everyone else return to your own homes.
@David-h5r1x
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
As someone who has been locked up for years innocently "later charges dropped" i can tell you it was appalling in there. Rotten food. Meat with green spots on it slimy. Moldy milk. Food with rocks in it. And the beatings by cops. Thrown to the floor, dragged under stairs where the camera cant see you and beaten. There is so much more but the worst and i mean worst was the medical. There was none. 4 people died in 3 years i was there to medical neglect. There entire medical diagnoses is checking blood pressure. If you are having seizures or any medical problem whatsoever' they come and check your blood pressure and if it is good they say you are perfectly fine and throw you back in the cell. And if you are in need of treatment if you get any it is always saltwater. They come to you twice a day with a Styrofoam cup and packets of salt. Apparently saltwater cures all. I was in there with several spanish and they were being held on no caharges for 2, 5 and even 6 years. They committed no crimes. They where just waiting to be processed to be sent to mexico. I have been free since 2017 and not a day goes by i still dont think about that place.
@Awesomejustinj
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
This should not happen. For profit prisons are DANGER!!!
@HankNoneYAH
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
Private Prisons & human slavery go hand in hand in the Empire of iron & clay !!!!!
@JasmineSadler-p7d
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
😮shocked 💔 heartbreaking 💔 to hear 💔 this is happening in the USA, they preach to the whole world about human rights abuses & put sanctions on countries. Lots of human rights abuses taking place in the USA. Who will place sanctions on the USA???????
@futuro2
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
So this channel paid by Democrats is criticizing immigration policies? HYPOCRITICAL BASTARDS.
@prismaticerror6911
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
Abolish prisons
@dlross173
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
This is what happens when you vote the wealthiest people into power. They help each other to make more money by trampling all over the rest of us- the bottom 85% of the country who are living paycheck to paycheck or are unemployed altogether. They will squeeze us until we are unalived.
@heathercontois4501
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
Stop using "detainee". They are prisoners or abductees. Period.
@CuckyFedstein
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
The welfare states child support recuperation policies have been running men through a 6 month cycle of "work release"- home and back for 2 generations. Those awesome " prison alternative" programs the left has waved around? The exact point where private prisons pick up both their inmate supply and legal protections.
@mhartim8749
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
13:27 that gesture and answer pretty much says "IDGAF about them, they're just a paycheck to me"
@santawashere4877
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
Thank you for the work you all do to keep people informed in these dark times
@house4047
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
One Day Soon You will Not Be Allowed to Leave America
@thinkingthroughit-rebecca
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
Private Prisons are hotels to fill…the must keep filling the rooms or lose their contracts….
@MaxineCarrion
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
WE THE PEOPLE or WE THE CORPORATIONS profits is the name of the game above all else
@user-ej6nb9zl8w
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
You need to understand YT people don’t care about life
@4amlibra
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
11:22 I cannot FATHOM the reality of incarcerating hundreds of women with no menstrual hygiene products for months, if not years.
@4amlibra
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
How long have people been protesting and lobbying against for-profit prisons? How many years?? This isn't really news, so much as it's just the next evolution of a massive institutional human rights violation that has been increasingly worsening for decades.
@Jenny40090
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
Government corruption at the highest level. It’s all about profit
@Lcj2046
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
Private Prisons Pour Millions Into Lobbying State Lawmakers
State GEO Group Total
California $361,963 $4,005,159
Texas $815,003 $1,260,005
Colorado $37,500 $718,490
Alaska $360,000 $360,000
This is robbery
@Lcj2046
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
Stop the lobbying they will change everything. This is America. Money laundering government. State lobbying federal lobbying. Unbelievable how this is legal.
@timtags
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
A lot more people need to see this
@ElizabethLeon-mg3wn
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
wellcitsnotowingifitantdoneright.morrlike deathwish.aninthissituationallmyasitsbeing usedannothinginreturnbutranoff.disrespectedtothefullist.couldhavebeenplayedrightbutwoulfntallowmeto.iswatitis.myapoligiesforasominginowwatimtalkingabout….
@DasBoot69er
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
Don’t come here illegally and you won’t have to worry about going to one. It’s a simple concept. Or self deport. Adios amigos.
@christinegagnon6622
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
"kids for cash" scandal 😷☕
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