The Mind-Boggling Private Prison Comeback
The Mother Jones Podcast
Mother Jones
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, Mother Jones senior reporter Shane Bauer reports on the surging profits of the private prison industry thanks to Trump. More than two-thirds of all immigration detainees are held by private prison companies, and nine of the 10 largest immigrant detention centers in the United States are privately operated. Bauer traces the history of the second-largest for-profit prison company in the country, CoreCivic, to its surprising roots. Also on the show, MoJo staff writer Stephanie Mencimer brings you the latest from Day One of the raucous Senate confirmation hearings for conservative Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Mother Jones Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Jemila King in New York. |
| 0:05.0 | On today's show, |
| 0:07.0 | on the show. On today's show, Chaos erupts. |
| 0:17.0 | Loud, they were aggressive and they were very, very angry. |
| 0:22.0 | The long-awaited start of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, |
| 0:25.0 | Democrats slammed the process as a charade and a mockery. |
| 0:29.2 | We'll take you inside with our Mother Jones Supreme Court reporter. |
| 0:32.9 | And I have never really seen anything like it. |
| 0:35.2 | Everything you need to know about the secret documents |
| 0:37.8 | driving the controversy. |
| 0:39.5 | What are we hiding by not letting those documents come out. |
| 0:42.5 | And what's next for the conservative judges confirmation? |
| 0:46.1 | Also on the show, the history of one of America's largest private prison companies. |
| 0:51.7 | It's a vast history. A special report. |
| 0:54.3 | A detention centers make up 25% of core civics revenue. Today the company |
| 0:59.0 | Corecivic is helping the Trump administration detain immigrant families and investors are loving it. |
| 1:06.0 | But this is just the latest twist in the company's long brutal history at the heart of America's prison system. |
| 1:13.0 | In some ways, the really kind of gruesome part comes after slavery. |
| 1:16.0 | Stick around. |
| 1:21.0 | But first, the contentious confirmation hearings for Conservative Judge Brett Kavanaugh |
| 1:27.9 | kicked off on Tuesday on Capitol Hill. |
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