This comes amid local municipalities figuring out that privately owned facilities can be subject to their legislative endeavors and moving to shift control to the feds to prevent local govs from being able to do anything about their abuse/neglect.
Matt ShuhamPrivate prison company CoreCivic has sold four of its ICE jails to the U.S. government in recent weeks for a total of $2.2 billion – an average of $307,000 per bed. The government was already paying CoreCivic to operate the facilities, and that will continue. ir.corecivic.com/news-release...