{"product_id":"immigration-detention-inc-nancy-hiemstra-9780745349466","title":"Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking Up Migrants in America","description":"The United States has the most extensive immigration detention system in the world, expanding from a capacity of less than 5,000 detainees per day in the 1980s to 52,000 by 2019. While the most vociferous anti-immigrant rhetoric may be attributed to Republicans, US detention infrastructure has grown exponentially regardless of the political party in power as reports of abysmal detention conditions pile up. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon provide a damning expos? of the ways immigration detention generates income. At the same time, those detained are starved, sickened, and exploited as a matter of routine detention operations. Drawing on over a decade of research focusing on detention centers in New Jersey and New York, the authors map public-private financial relationships and trace how detention contracts for food, medical care, and in-facility stores are fought over to the penny. By dissecting the inner workings of immigration detention, they show a system governed by a capitalist logic that produces sickening and corrupting dependencies in communities across the US. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Coming at a pivotal social and political moment, Immigration Detention Inc. makes the case for dismantling immigration detention regimes everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nancy Hiemstra, Deirdre Conlon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0745349463\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745349466\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pluto Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/20\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Nancy Hiemstra","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46617821151487,"sku":"9780745349466","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5fb481c0-c384-4f20-b83f-dd18d781e21e.jpg?v=1740068428","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/immigration-detention-inc-nancy-hiemstra-9780745349466","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}