In
doing so, it fails not only its public charge and its duty, but also
terribly fails the people entrusted to it. The fact is that these private prisons, the detention centers, the
companies that own them, hired lobbyists in California, for example,
within the last few years. They had 70 lobbyists. One of the companies
had 70 lobbyists on staff. They lobby for harsher criminal penalties. Why? Because the more people that have to be detained, the more money
they make. That simply is not how the criminal justice system should work and
that is not how we should do detention within the immigration realm. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
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