Federal Detainees Essay

Federal Detainees Federal Detainees are in the custody, or jurisdiction, of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the United States Marshals Service (USMS) and these people are different than prisoners because these detainees are waiting for their case to be taken to court to decide their fate (Mason, “Dollars and Detainees”). Immigrations and Customs Enforcement was created to replace the United States Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service following the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001. ICE is the part of the Department of Homeland SEcurity that does investigations. The detainees that ICE will hold include people who “(1) violate administrative laws by being in the U.S. without proper documentation; (2) overstay their visas;

The Immigration and Naturalization Service, now ICE, actually gave GEO its first private prison contract and gave CCA its first contract which led those two groups to be the most successful and largest private prison corporations/companies in the world (Mason, “Dollars and Detainees”). At the time GEO and CCA got their first contracts, USMS was contracting private companies to hold detainees in detention services which are usually used to hold illegal immigrants. The rate at which USMS and ICE held detainees in privately run facilities was actually higher than the rate at which state and federal prisoners were being held by private prisons in the last ten years (Mason, “Dollars and Detainees”). In 2010, the number of detainees held by ICE and USMS was about the same as the number federal level prisoners held by private prison facilities (Mason, “Dollars and Detainees”). Like private prisons are run by private corporations, the same ones that run private prisons. In these facilities there is inadequate health care in the facilities, sexual abuse by staff, reports of detainees dying due to lack of medical