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Seth Freed Wessler
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Seth Freed Wessler is a reporter in New York and a Puffin Fellow with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute. He is also a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism.
December 21, 2016
Another audit is perhaps the final piece of official evidence countering Donald Trump’s belief in for-profit incarceration.
The only way to quickly deport 3 million immigrants is to first make them into criminals—and he’ll have the tools to do so on day one.
Advocates cheered when the Justice Department began shuttering its private prisons. But immigration officials saw an opportunity.
Homeland Security launches a review of private detention centers, weeks after DOJ began closing its own facilities.
Our yearlong probe uncovered dozens of questionable deaths and years of dire warnings from internal monitors.
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The facility is among several in which our reporting has uncovered dozens of deaths that involved substandard medical care.
July 28, 2016
Suffering in private… An ounce of prevention… Pulsing with love…
Following a Nation investigation into lax medical care, the Justice Department is finally moving to end its reliance on for-profit prison operators.
An investigation found dozens of questionable deaths related to cost cutting in privatized federal prisons.
Dozens of men have died in disturbing circumstances in privatized, immigrant-only prisons. The Bureau of Prisons itself says there’s a problem. And yet the privatization scheme continues.
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