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Report: Criminalizing Undocumented Boosts For-profit Prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Report: Criminalizing Undocumented Boosts For-profit Prisons New America Media, News Report, Khalil Abdullah, Posted: Aug 06, 2010 WASHINGTON ? While public attention has focused on state policies toward immigrants -- namely, Arizona?s controversial immigration law ? federal authorities have for years criminalized border crossers. The federal policy called Operation Streamline, initiated in 2005 by the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, moves the prosecution of undocumented immigrants from civil to criminal courts and ultimately to deportation. The program?s success in curbing illegal immigration is still debatable, but if there has been one beneficiary, it?s the for-profit prison industry, according to a report recently released by Grassroots Leadership...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 07, 2010 (boomark / email).