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Author Archives: Seth Freed Wessler

Seth Freed Wessler is an independent journalist and senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism. He is the recipient of a 2014-15 Soros Justice Media Fellowship.

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Sick on the inside

by Sarah Mirk, Stan Alcorn, Seth Freed Wessler, Esther Kaplan, Susanne Reber, Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Kevin Sullivan and Al Letson April 3, 2021April 5, 2021

For decades, the U.S. has run private “shadow prisons” for immigrants convicted of federal crimes. Biden has ordered the government to wind down those contracts.

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Posted inAccountability, Criminal Justice, Immigration

Justice Department to end all federal private prisons

by Seth Freed Wessler August 18, 2016November 29, 2018

In a historic rebuke of the private prison industry, the U.S. Department of Justice today announced plans to eliminate the use of private prisons to incarcerate federal inmates.

Posted inAccountability, Criminal Justice, Immigration

Feds will shut down troubled private prison in Nation investigation

by Seth Freed Wessler August 15, 2016November 29, 2018

The Bureau of Prisons has notified one of the country’s leading private prison companies, Corrections Corporation of America, that a troubled federal prison the company operated for 16 years will be closed down.

Posted inCriminal Justice, Health Care, Immigration, Prisons

Private prison operator sued over death at immigrant facility

by Seth Freed Wessler March 15, 2016November 29, 2018

The family of a federal prisoner has filed a wrongful death lawsuit, alleging that private prison operators negligently left him in the care of underqualified medical workers who failed to respond properly to a medical emergency.

Posted inCriminal Justice, Immigration, Prisons

Medical neglect can be fatal in privatized immigrant-only prisons

by Seth Freed Wessler February 4, 2016November 29, 2018

The Bureau of Prisons has 11 facilities – operated by private corporations – that are used exclusively for noncitizens. But these contract prisons are bound by a less stringent set of rules, and an independent review suggests that inadequate medical care likely contributed to some inmate deaths.

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