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Overhaul of detention centers could include new "centers" built and run by the government

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Asked if his vision could include building new civil detention centers, he said yes. The current 32,000-bed network costs $2.4 billion a year, but the agency is not ready to calculate the cost of a revamped system." U.S. to Reform Policy on Detention for Immigrants By NINA BERNSTEIN Published: August 5, 2009 NY Times The Obama administration intends to announce an ambitious plan on Thursday to overhaul the much-criticized way the nation detains immigration violators, trying to transform it from a patchwork of jail and prison cells to what its new chief called a ?truly civil detention system.? Details are sketchy, and even the first steps will take months or years to complete. They include reviewing the federal government?s contracts with more than 350 local jails and private prisons, with an eye toward consolidating many detainees in places more suitable for noncriminals facing deportation ? some possibly in centers built and run by the government...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 07, 2009 (boomark / email).