{"product_id":"immigration-detention-inc","title":"Immigration Detention Inc.","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe United States has the most extensive immigration detention system in the world, expanding from a capacity of less than 5,000 detainees per day in the 1980s to 52,000 by 2019. While the most vociferous anti-immigrant rhetoric may be attributed to Republicans, US detention infrastructure has grown exponentially regardless of the political party in power, as reports of abysmal detention conditions pile up. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon provide a damning exposé of the ways immigration detention generates income while those detained are starved, sickened, and exploited as a matter of routine detention operation. Drawing on over a decade of research and focusing on detention centers in New Jersey and New York, the authors map public-private financial relationships and trace how detention contracts for food, medical care, and in-facility stores are fought over to the penny. By dissecting the inner workings of immigration detention, they show a system governed by a capitalist logic that produces sickening and corrupting dependencies in communities across the US. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComing at a pivotal social and political moment, \u003cem\u003eImmigration Detention Inc.\u003c\/em\u003e makes the case for dismantling immigration detention regimes everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deirdre Conlon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42849624096829,"sku":"9780745349466","price":31.46,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780745349466_32dcab66-06dd-4765-99d9-1ee0a2397c2d.jpg?v=1767039846","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/immigration-detention-inc","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}