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"
This shines an urgent spotlight on an inhumane system.
" - Publishers Weekly
“Who knew that hatred driven by racism could be so lucrative? ...
A resounding and meticulously researched expos
é
” -
Ravi Ragbir, immigration activist and co-founder of New Sanctuary Coalition
“A vital and troubling look at the grotesque practices of the
privatized immigration detention industry” -
Reece Jones, author of
Nobody is Protected
and
White Borders
“The most thorough breakdown of the immigration
enforcement industrial complex that I have ever read” -
Todd Miller, journalist and author of
Build Bridges, Not Walls
The United States has the largest immigration detention system in the world. In the 1980s, it held fewer than 5,000 people each day. By 2024, that number was 39,000, and today it is increasing sharply again. While Republicans are often the loudest voices against immigration, the detention system expands no matter which party is in power.
Immigration Detention Inc.
is a damning investigation of the ways immigration detention generates income while those imprisoned are starved, sickened, and exploited on a daily basis. Drawing on over a decade of research and focusing on detention centers in New Jersey and New York, Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon follow the money to map public and private financial relationships and trace how detention contracts for food, medical care, and in-facility stores are fought over to the penny. By breaking down how immigration detention works, they reveal a profit-driven system that harms and corrupts communities across the U.S. At a decisive moment in history, the call is clear: dismantle immigration detention systems everywhere.
Nancy Hiemstra
is the author of
Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime
. She is Associate Professor at Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York, U.S.
Deirdre Conlon
is co-editor of
Carceral Spaces
and (with Hiemstra) of
Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention
. Working in the U.S. and U.K., she is Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, U.K.
This shines an urgent spotlight on an inhumane system.
" - Publishers Weekly
“Who knew that hatred driven by racism could be so lucrative? ...
A resounding and meticulously researched expos
é
” -
Ravi Ragbir, immigration activist and co-founder of New Sanctuary Coalition
“A vital and troubling look at the grotesque practices of the
privatized immigration detention industry” -
Reece Jones, author of
Nobody is Protected
and
White Borders
“The most thorough breakdown of the immigration
enforcement industrial complex that I have ever read” -
Todd Miller, journalist and author of
Build Bridges, Not Walls
The United States has the largest immigration detention system in the world. In the 1980s, it held fewer than 5,000 people each day. By 2024, that number was 39,000, and today it is increasing sharply again. While Republicans are often the loudest voices against immigration, the detention system expands no matter which party is in power.
Immigration Detention Inc.
is a damning investigation of the ways immigration detention generates income while those imprisoned are starved, sickened, and exploited on a daily basis. Drawing on over a decade of research and focusing on detention centers in New Jersey and New York, Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon follow the money to map public and private financial relationships and trace how detention contracts for food, medical care, and in-facility stores are fought over to the penny. By breaking down how immigration detention works, they reveal a profit-driven system that harms and corrupts communities across the U.S. At a decisive moment in history, the call is clear: dismantle immigration detention systems everywhere.
Nancy Hiemstra
is the author of
Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime
. She is Associate Professor at Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York, U.S.
Deirdre Conlon
is co-editor of
Carceral Spaces
and (with Hiemstra) of
Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention
. Working in the U.S. and U.K., she is Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, U.K.
"
This shines an urgent spotlight on an inhumane system.
" - Publishers Weekly
“Who knew that hatred driven by racism could be so lucrative? ...
A resounding and meticulously researched expos
é
” -
Ravi Ragbir, immigration activist and co-founder of New Sanctuary Coalition
“A vital and troubling look at the grotesque practices of the
privatized immigration detention industry” -
Reece Jones, author of
Nobody is Protected
and
White Borders
“The most thorough breakdown of the immigration
enforcement industrial complex that I have ever read” -
Todd Miller, journalist and author of
Build Bridges, Not Walls
The United States has the largest immigration detention system in the world. In the 1980s, it held fewer than 5,000 people each day. By 2024, that number was 39,000, and today it is increasing sharply again. While Republicans are often the loudest voices against immigration, the detention system expands no matter which party is in power.
Immigration Detention Inc.
is a damning investigation of the ways immigration detention generates income while those imprisoned are starved, sickened, and exploited on a daily basis. Drawing on over a decade of research and focusing on detention centers in New Jersey and New York, Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon follow the money to map public and private financial relationships and trace how detention contracts for food, medical care, and in-facility stores are fought over to the penny. By breaking down how immigration detention works, they reveal a profit-driven system that harms and corrupts communities across the U.S. At a decisive moment in history, the call is clear: dismantle immigration detention systems everywhere.
Nancy Hiemstra
is the author of
Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime
. She is Associate Professor at Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York, U.S.
Deirdre Conlon
is co-editor of
Carceral Spaces
and (with Hiemstra) of
Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention
. Working in the U.S. and U.K., she is Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, U.K.
This shines an urgent spotlight on an inhumane system.
" - Publishers Weekly
“Who knew that hatred driven by racism could be so lucrative? ...
A resounding and meticulously researched expos
é
” -
Ravi Ragbir, immigration activist and co-founder of New Sanctuary Coalition
“A vital and troubling look at the grotesque practices of the
privatized immigration detention industry” -
Reece Jones, author of
Nobody is Protected
and
White Borders
“The most thorough breakdown of the immigration
enforcement industrial complex that I have ever read” -
Todd Miller, journalist and author of
Build Bridges, Not Walls
The United States has the largest immigration detention system in the world. In the 1980s, it held fewer than 5,000 people each day. By 2024, that number was 39,000, and today it is increasing sharply again. While Republicans are often the loudest voices against immigration, the detention system expands no matter which party is in power.
Immigration Detention Inc.
is a damning investigation of the ways immigration detention generates income while those imprisoned are starved, sickened, and exploited on a daily basis. Drawing on over a decade of research and focusing on detention centers in New Jersey and New York, Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon follow the money to map public and private financial relationships and trace how detention contracts for food, medical care, and in-facility stores are fought over to the penny. By breaking down how immigration detention works, they reveal a profit-driven system that harms and corrupts communities across the U.S. At a decisive moment in history, the call is clear: dismantle immigration detention systems everywhere.
Nancy Hiemstra
is the author of
Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime
. She is Associate Professor at Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York, U.S.
Deirdre Conlon
is co-editor of
Carceral Spaces
and (with Hiemstra) of
Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention
. Working in the U.S. and U.K., she is Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, U.K.
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