Fialho and Ruiz, in Forbes Magazine: The Case for Ending Private Prisons

(Christina Fialho)    (Grisel Ruiz)

Christina Fialho (co-founder/executive director of CIVIC, which promotes visitation programs for immigrant detainees) and Grisel Ruiz (staff attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center and CIVIC board chair) make the case from a cost perspective in Forbes Magazine for ending private prisons, particularly in the immigration detention context.  The article draws attention to the lack of open market competition in the private prison industry, absence of meaningful standards and government regulation, and the costs of private immigration detention. The piece also discusses the Dignity Not Detention Act (SB 1289) in California, which California Government Jerry Brown has not yet signed, and that would end private detention facilities in the state.

-JKoh