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America’s incarceration rate is in decline

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239 points paulpauper | 4 comments | 25 Jun 25 17:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.826s | source
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GuinansEyebrows ◴[25 Jun 25 17:50 UTC] No.44380002[source]▶
this is great news. but...

i fear the new avenues of business sought by companies that operate for-profit prisons - i don't expect they'll just eat the losses of declining populations in their main moneymakers, and we're already starting to see them work on detention facilities for DHS etc.

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throwaway48476 ◴[25 Jun 25 18:01 UTC] No.44380125[source]▶
Detention facilities for deportations is an inherently fast shrinking population.
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1. GuinansEyebrows ◴[25 Jun 25 18:14 UTC] No.44380267[source]▶
at some point, maybe. i have no trust in DHS whatsoever.
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2. pessimizer ◴[25 Jun 25 18:29 UTC] No.44380441[source]▶
But do you think they'd start letting more people into the country, just to charge to detain and deport them? It's actually sort of an ideal solution. Big business gets back labor that it can threaten to deport if it demands anything, then they can clean up on the public-private deportations. Factory managers could send ICE a list of their most annoying employees to visit. It would be so 80's, I almost typed "the INS."
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3. GuinansEyebrows ◴[25 Jun 25 18:35 UTC] No.44380504[source]▶
what you're describing is more or less already happening. don't think h1b visaholders won't become a target.
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4. throwaway48476 ◴[25 Jun 25 20:58 UTC] No.44381770{3}[source]▶
You think if an H1B is canceled that they would illegally overstay?