Private prison corporations are very happy with the investment they’ve made in President Trump: Earlier this year, the CEO of CoreCivic told investors Trump’s administration has created the “most robust kind of sales environment” they’ve seen in a decade. Business is booming, after all, with ICE arresting twice as…

Back in June, Reuters reported that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was preparing to transfer up to 1,600 immigrant detainees to five federal prisons across the country, with the largest number (up to a thousand) going to the federal prison in Victorville, CA. Pretty much everyone with a brain,…

Last week, Lamel Diggs, a 32-year-old inmate in a Mississippi prison, sent Splinter an email through CorrLinks, the private email system used by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Immigration officials have received preliminary approval to destroy detainee records, including evidence that relates to in-custody deaths and sexual assault cases after a 20 year period.

This piece originally appeared on The Marshall Project.