$800 Million in Taxpayer Money Went to Private Prisons Where Migrants Work for Pennies

PROFIT CENTERS

Detention for migrants is big business—and a Daily Beast investigation reveals new details about just how lucrative it’s become.

Spencer Ackerman,

Adam Rawnsley

12.27.18 4:40 AM ET

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For $3 a day, Yesica works the graveyard shift in the kitchens of the for-profit immigration prison where she is locked up.