*Ø* The latest global growth industry: immigration detention

Investigative documentary into corporatized prisons

This is extraordinary material that helps show some of the machinations behind the pernicious privatization of prisons in the USA, Australia and elsewhere, and the rise of businesses that run the new concentration camps.

These businesses were going bust in the late 1990s, and found new prison fodder in immigration/refugee issues and 9-11. This partly explains the awful refugee detention centres Australia has given these profit-hungry goons to run in desert locations and way out on Pacific islands.

"September 11 is increasing business"
You'll need to read the whole radio documentary transcript to get the low-down, and as it's a long one I'll just paste this bit here:

"In 2002, the CEO of Cornell Companies, Steve Logan, told investors in a conference call that September 11th would mean a big boost in the market for immigration detention.

"Here's a reading of what he said.

"'I think it's clear that since September 11 there's a heightened focus on detention. More people are going to get caught. So I would say that's positive. The other thing that you’re seeing, and to be honest with you I have no idea how this is going to impact us, but it's not bad, it can only be good, is the focus on people that are illegal and also from Middle Eastern descent in the United States. There are over 900,000 undocumented individuals from Middle Eastern descent. That's, keep in mind, that's half of our entire prison population; that's a huge number, and that is a population, for lots of reasons, that is being targeted. So I would say the events of 9/11, let me back up: the Federal business is the best business for us. It’s the most consistent business for us and the events of September 11 is increasing that level of business.'"
Read on at Background Briefing or listen to the streaming audio