The Secret Deaths of Dozens at Privatized Immigrant-Only Jails

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A shocking new investigation about private prisons has revealed dozens of men have died in disturbing circumstances inside these facilities in recent years. The investigation published in The Nation magazine documents more than 100 deaths at private, immigrant-only prisons since 1998. The investigation's author, Seth Freed Wessler, spent more than two years fighting in and out of court to obtain more than 9,000 pages of medical records that private prison contractors had submitted to the Bureau of Prisons. "Democracy Now!" speaks to Wessler about his piece, "This Man Will Almost Certainly Die."