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Detention is big business for the
contract facilies. Institufions are
paid $95 per immigrant detainee
per day by ICE fo hold them, while
costs may be $55 per immigrant
per day or even less. Between
1999 and 2009, CCA spent $18
million to lobby for the passage of
federal lows as well as state laws
including Arizona’s SB 1070,

CCA itself said, “The demand for
our faciliies and services could be
adversely affected by . . . leniency
in conviction or parole standards
and sentencing pracices . . " Wil
CCA be seeking ever more draco-
nian immigration laws o ensure
that immigrant detention centers
remain full or are even expanded?
These laws have not kept the
people of California and Arizona
safer, but they have made CCA mik
lions at the faxpayer's expense.

More thn 5,000 children are io,
foster care due fo the detainment
or deportation of their parents.
Itis projected that another
15,000 children wil face the
threat of permanent separation
from their families in the next

five years. Nearly one in four
deportees have U.S.born kids,
and many face the fotal loss of
parental rights. Historic levels of
detention and deportation, com-
bined with o lack of clear child
welfare policy is shattering fami
lies and endangering the chil-
dren left behind. I unaccept
able and o clear sign that we
need fo revisit our immigration
policies.

Profit creates a disincentive fo treat
or even diagnose defainees with
health issues. For example,

2007 Felix Franklin Rodrigus

Torres died at the Eloy Detention
Conter died of festculor cancer. A
fellow deainee loter told Felix's
relatives thot o couple of weeks
prior to his death, he lay pleading
for medical help on his floor,
unable fo move. Throughout
Felix's two months at Eloy, the
cancer was not diagnosed nor
treated. In the last 8 years 122
immigrants have died in detention,
most from lack of medical care o
something related. We do not
want this kind of business in our
Town.

Since private prisons are
profitdriven, there is an impulse
1o reduce staff, and to reduce
wages and training of
personnel. As a resull, staff turn-
over rates in 2000 were 53%
for private prisons versus 16%
for public prisons; and wages
for staff of privale prisons were
25% less than those of public
prisons. We want stable,
wellpaying, and meaningful
jobs in Crete, which this facility
will not provide.

1. Sign the petitions Vist
o/ /v nocreledetentioncenter.com/
whare you can lear more about he
campeign to o the proposed Crele

Imnigreton Detesion Faciy,
the petition saying NO to
propored Crat, and follow us on
facebook.

2 the listserv

1o stay up to date: Contoct
cretedetentioncenter@gmail.com
1o join the lisksarve to recaive
updoles.

3. Support Bill SB1064.
Senclor Antonio Munoz has inroduced
5l SB1064 to keep privale prisons out of
linois & 10 stop the proposed Crote delen-
tion carer. On March 28, 2012 the bil

passad out of the linois Senale wih a vol
‘go it posed in

epresenivesl Ploose

iate Repolitva and ask

for your state representafive
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