Immigrant Detainees: A New Profit Center?

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Video: Immigrant Detainees: A New Profit Center?

In this web exclusive video, NOW looks at how the private corrections industry is profiting when immigrants -- including children --- are held in detention centers awaiting deportation. Loretta Perry-Wilborne, a former employee of the Aurora Detention Center in Colorado, gives us an insider's view of a detainees' life behind bars.

"It's freezing in the winter time … and we have a lot of detainees that get sick," she tells NOW.