Somebody recently asked:
I have seen no verification that the private prisons intend to make
money from inmate labor & the recent article claiming prison labor would
displace more citizen jobs if illegals were jailed as a positive for
amnesty was ridiculous. All anti-amnesty directives I have seen call for
the illegals being deported back to their country of origin ASAP. How
does this equate to available prison labor for private prisons?
OK, let’s go look at the anti-immigrant law passed by Arizona.
It’s littered with “federal custody” and
“imprisoned not more than thirty days” and
“imprisoned not more than six months” and
“A person who is sentenced pursuant to this section is not eligible
for suspension or commutation of sentence or release on any basis until
the sentence imposed is served.”
and
“class 1 misdemeanor”
and
“class 3 felony”
and
“class 4 felony”
and
“twenty days in jail” and
“thirty days in jail”.
Arizona Revised Statutes Section 11-1051
D. Notwithstanding any other law, a law enforcement agency may securely
transport an alien who the agency has received verification is unlawfully
present in the united states and who is in the agency’s custody to a
federal facility in this state or to any other point of transfer into
federal custody that is outside the jurisdiction of the law enforcement
agency. a law enforcement agency shall obtain judicial authorization
before securely transporting an alien who is unlawfully present in the
United States to a point of transfer that is outside of this state.
13-1509. Trespassing by illegal aliens; assessment; exception; classification
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The big winner in the crackdown on the illegal immiggration has been the private prison industry. As Bloomberg Business Week reports in its latest issue, companies such as Corrections Corporation of America are making millions. In fact, CCA makes more money from detaining immigrants than it does from any single U.S. state.