Toward the end of his administration, President Obama was reducing the federal government's reliance on private prisons. That changed when Donald Trump was elected president. What happened?
We asked Lauren-Brooke Eisen, senior counsel at the Brennan Center’s Justice Program at NYU's School of Law, and the author of Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration. https://www.insideprivateprisons.com
Photo: Karnes County Residential Center, an immigrant detention center run by the private prison company CoreCivic. By Ilana Panich-Linsman/KUT