Opinion: Private prisons report massive profits from aiding Trump’s immigrant crackdown

Photo: Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin testifies before the House Committee on Homeland Security during a hearing on the fiscal 2027 budget request for the Department of Homeland Security at the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C., June 3, 2026. Photo credit: DHS photo by Tia Dufour via Flickr. US government work. Opinion article by Ja’han Jones. MS NOW – August 10, 2026.

Donald Trump may be destroying the economy for average Americans, but the private prison industry is making a killing from the president’s racist anti-immigrant crackdown. Top executives from the country’s two largest private prison companies hosted earnings calls last week in which they touted the massive profits they have been able to rake in from taxpayer-funded contracts with the federal government. […]

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