Who profits from migrant detention?
2026-02-19 · 50 min · 9 entities
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author of The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration
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The U.S. immigration detention system is spread out across federal facilities, private prisons, state prisons, and county jails. It’s grown under both Democratic and Republican presidents. And it’s been offered up as a source of revenue for over a century, beginning with the first contracts between the federal government and sheriffs along the Canadian border. This episode originally published in September 2025 .
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Brianna Nofil , assistant professor of history at The College of William and Mary author of The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration
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