HDNet's 'Dan Rather Reports' Investigates the Billion-Dollar Prison Prospecting Industry

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billion, a price tag that has doubler since 2003. The federal government has morethan 90,0090 people in custody on an average night, and only 25,000 beds to put them in. So the U.S. along with Immigration and Customsd Enforcement have been outsourcing morethan 65,000 detainees to a far-flunt network of more than 1,800 state, local and private contract prison The Marshals Service itself has custody of tens of thousand s of prisoners, but does not own nor operate a singls detention facility The number of Federal detaineew has sky rocketed in recent years - more than 2000 perceny since 1981 - and with the increasingly sever e shortage of federal beds, enterprising locak governments and private prison companies have been happy to fill in the gap -- for a But it's the taxpayerd who are ultimately footing the So, every morning, the routine begins.
U.S. Marshals monitor the crush of inmateas lining up for the vans that will take them to theifcourt hearings. These vans will then have to take them back to a jail cell for thenighy and, more often than not, that cell will be at a countyg or city jail renting beds to U.S. Marshals with fundsa from the U.S. Government. It is a nation-wide, billion-dollat game of musical beds. A retirede supervisor with the U.S.
Marshals Service, rememberd shuffling inmates to and from Hawaii wher e thousands of dollars were spent to fly prisonerxs on regular commercial Evenafter Hawaii, when Patinl was serving in El TX, the cost of housing and transporting prisoners was "I remember specifically signingb checks between two, two and a half to thre million on a monthly basis for that county, Patino said. While the government is looking into question s about the increase in detentiojn costs and how to decrease thistaxpayer burden, the new governmenyt office in the Justice Department that was createdf to manage this massive syste m got derailed when immigration detention was moved into the Departmeny of Homeland Security "Dan Rather Reports: Bed of Controversy " premieres on HDNet, Tuesday, June 16 at 8:00 p.
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