Quotas create incentive for authorities to detain more immigrants than they would otherwise need to, report says
By Tom Kutsch, AlJazeera America
June 11, 2015
A system of local quotas for privately run immigration detention facilities across the United States has created a strong incentive for federal immigration authorities to detain more immigrants than it would otherwise need to, while increasing profits for private companies, according to a study.
The report (PDF), released Thursday by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Detention Watch Network, says that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – the division of the Department of Homeland Security that manages immigration detention facilities – supports a system where its contracts with private companies establish “guaranteed minimums,” taxpayer-supported monetary obligations to pay for a set number of detention beds, regardless of whether they are used.
That, the report says, means ICE has an incentive to detain individuals, and gives private companies that run detention facilities a say in the number of immigrants the U.S. detains annually.[...]
Read the full article:
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/6/11/study-govt-detention-policies-encourage-grea.html
Download the report:
http://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/sites/default/files/Banking_on_Detention_DWN.pdf
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