US Politics
Shrouded in Secrecy: The Crisis in California's Private Immigration Detention Centers
The number of people held in privately-run immigration detention centers in California has more than doubled since last year, leading to overcrowding, six deaths since September, and desperate acts by detainees to expose their conditions. This deliberate shroud of secrecy, enforced by local agencies hiding behind legal carveouts, is a grotesque betrayal of America's founding promise of liberty and justice for all, turning profit-driven facilities into modern-day black sites on our own soil.
