teleSUR English | 8/19/2016
Amid celebrations Thursday after the Department of Justice announced it would phase out some of its contracts with private prisons, immigrant rights activists were far from heralding the end of the industry, with immigrant detention centers likely to be untouched and the vast majority of private prisons still standing.
“It doesn’t end there,” said Raul Al-qaraz Ochoa, an immigrant community organizer based in Houston, to teleSUR. “We need to get to a point where there is no immigration detention, period. Whether public or private.”
Optimism about reaching that point with for-profit detention centers is still cautious.
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Naomi Cohen | journalist 