The Conversation: Immigration enforcement is supplying a long‑standing economic market for prisoners
Ella Siegrist for The Conversation (Immigration enforcement is supplying a long‑standing economic market for prisoners) writes that:
"Today, as criminal justice reforms drive down prison admissions in some areas, immigration detention is filling prison and jail cells that would otherwise be empty. The number of people detained by ICE increased by 58% – or more than 25,000 people – between 2025 and 2026, according to the Prison Policy Initiative, which advocates to end mass incarceration. Expanded immigration detention, the group’s March 2026 report says, `accounts for virtually all of the growth in mass incarceration' since its last report."
