➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: Profits over care make case for immigration reform (Opinion)
The Hill – June 21, 2016
This month, the California Senate passed the Dignity Not Detention Act (SB 1289), authored by Senator Ricardo Lara, and co-sponsored by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center and Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC). This is the first bill in the nation to prohibit municipalities from contracting with for-profit immigration detention facilities, to require all other detention facilities in California to uphold national humane treatment standards, and to allow people to sue if their rights are violated under these basic standards.
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/immigration/284114-profits-over-care-make-case-for-immigration-reform