California Just Banned Private Prisons, Including Ice Detention Centers
Source: Vice News
The Mesa Verde facility costs taxpayers $119.95 per detainee per day for the first 320 people detained there, according to an advocacy group. California just passed a bill banning all for-profit prisons and immigrant detention facilities in the state, the Guardian reports — and some of these facilities could be gone as early as next year.
Bill AB32, passed Wednesday and heading to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk for signing, would shut down private facilities that hold inmates with criminal convictions. More than 2,200 people were held in such facilities as of June, according to data from the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics data reviewed by the Guardian. It would also shutter privately run facilities for immigrants, who are considered civil detainees despite being held in prison-like conditions.
Assemblyman Rob Bonta, who introduced the bill, said in February that the inclusion of immigrant detention facilities wasn’t meant as a jab at President Trump or his immigration policies. Instead, he told the San Francisco Chronicle, it was a stand against companies that “only care about the almighty dollar.”
There are currently four privately operated immigrant detention centers in California. Two of them — the Mesa Verde Detention Facility in Bakersfield and the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino — are run by the GEO Group, one of the biggest private prison companies in the country. Together, the two GEO Group-run facilities can hold up to 1,940 people. - MORE...
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Grateful for it everyday. We have our idiots too, just less of them. 
Especially the Bay Area, my home..I love San Francisco...I would never want to leave.
Or does this mean the Fed has to come in and run these places? Will they be portioned out to other prisons? Will some get let go? (especially if they were locked up on something stupid..or heaven forbid, something dangerous.) Do the immigrants get deported or welcomed (I think we know that answer 
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I'm glad this passed, it's truly dangerous to run these facilities like a business or for-profit model. It's literally another form of slavery or ethnic decimation.
I just hope that just passing this law doesn't end up being like when Reagan shut down the mental health wards and all of them became much of what is the homeless population. Somehow I don't trust the Federal Govt to be able or willing to work with the State on this... I wonder how it will go down.
