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Monday, January 21st, 2019

Welcome to Immigration Jail, Where Toothpaste Costs $11

Author:     Paul Blest
Source:     Splinter
Publication Date:     Friday 6:01pm
 Link: Welcome to Immigration Jail, Where Toothpaste Costs $11
Stephan:   I never thought anything like this would happen again in the United States; I had thought the Japanese internment experience coupled with the civil rights movement would have taught the American people a lesson in morality.  I was wrong. It isn't just our leadership which is despicable, but that ordinary Americans and American corporations are willing, even eager, to do these things. The only piece missing is the ovens. I am afraid the United States of America no longer has any moral standing in the world. We have only one social value as a country -- profit. And we are the poorer for it.

Credit: Ted S. Warren/AP

As if the immigration news this week hasn’t been dystopian and depressing enough, Reuters published a report on Friday detailing all the ways private prison conglomerates are squeezing free labor and extra cash out of immigrants seeking asylum.

Reuters reported on several detention centers like the Adelanto Detention Facility in California, owned by the two billion-plus dollar corporation GEO Group, where inmates like Duglas Cruz can “choose” to work for as little as $1 a day in order to buy extra food and accessories. And how much, exactly, does that $1 get you?

A can of commissary tuna sold for $3.25. That is more than four times the price at a Target store near the small desert town of Adelanto, about two hours northeast of Los Angeles. Cruz stuck with ramen noodles at 58 cents a package, double the Target price. A miniature deodorant stick, at $3.35 and more than three days’ wages, was an impossible luxury, he said

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 6:25 am

    These things are outlandish, and beyond reason or morality and cannot be acceptable in our country where everyone is supposed to equal; even those in prison should be protected from this kind of slavery.