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Solitary Confinement In Colorado Prisons Overused, State-Funded Report Finds. Colorado could "significantly reduce" the unusually high percentage of its prison inmates held in long-term solitary confinement by instituting several low-cost reforms, corrections experts said in a state-ordered report released last week. Nearly 7 percent of Colorado state prisoners are held in long-term solitary confinement, compared to a national average of 1-2 percent. Roughly a quarter of these inmates suffer from serious mental illness, and 40 percent of them are released directly from solitary confinement into the community. The report raises the possibility that Colorado prison officials are prepared to institute serious reforms and bring the state closer in line with solitary confinement policies in other states, said Mark Silverstein, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Colorado. "The very existence of this report may signal that the Colorado Department of Corrections is ready for a significant change," said Silverstein.
"It's change that's long overdue. " The Influence of the Private Prison Industry in Immigration Detention | Detention Watch Network. Introduction Since the late 1990’s, the number of people held in immigration detention has exploded. On any given day, ICE detains over 33,000 immigrants; this is more than triple the number of people detained in 1996. In the last 5 years alone, the annual number of immigrants detained and the costs of detaining them has doubled: in 2009, 383,524 immigrants were detained, costing taxpayers $1.7 billion at an average of $122 a day per bed. Nearly 2.5 million individuals have passed through immigration detention facilities since 2003. Although private corporations have long exercised influence over detention policy in a variety of contexts, a recent accumulation of evidence indicates that the main contractors involved in the explosive growth of the immigration detention system have been involved in heavy lobbying at the federal level.
This research was conducted in partnership with Grassroots Leadership and Sarah V. Breakdown of private immigration detention beds by state 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Severe Mental Disorders Highly Prevalent in Jails, Prisons : Clinical Psychiatry News. Private Prison Charges Inmates $5 A Minute For Phone Calls While They Work For $1 A Day. By Amanda Peterson Beadle on November 16, 2011 at 3:45 pm "Private Prison Charges Inmates $5 A Minute For Phone Calls While They Work For $1 A Day" Last year the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison company, received $74 million of taxpayers’ money to run immigration detention centers. Their largest facility in Lumpkin, Georgia, receives $200 a night for each of the 2,000 detainees it holds, and rakes in yearly profits between $35 million and $50 million.
Prisoners held in this remote facility depend on the prison’s phones to communicate with their lawyers and loved ones. Watch this report on the conditions Stewart detainees face: CCA’s abuse doesn’t stop at outrageously priced phone services. As Alternet points out, in the past few years, CCA has spent $14.8 million “lobbying for anti-immigration laws to ensure they have continuous access to fresh inmates and keep their money racket going.”