Week 7 Ziyu Wang A02

In the article The Criminalization of Immigration And The Privatization of The Immigration Detention: Implications For Justice, Ackerman and Furman talks about the increasing popularity of the private prisons and how it negatively effects immigrants both economically and psychosocially. In recent years, more and more private prison corporations and private immigration detention centers are being utilized, and these companies works hand in hand to profit off of immigrants, squeezing them out for revenue. Not only is this detrimental to the development of several immigrant communities economically, this also leave mental scars in the effected immigrant communities for generations to come. This week in lecture we talked about the effect of mental health, and how these pharmaceutical companies are benefiting from strangely diagnosed disorders in order to profit from students who are just looking for answers, who are just looking for some help. Some of these prescriptions send students into a deeper spiral of depression and addiction. The private prison companies are doing the same. In fact, most if not all government facilities are slowly getting privatized, aiming for higher profit. The same goes for universities. Students, just like immigrants, are being cheated out for revenue. The danger of privatization continues to loom over the society, but how do our communities band together and combat this overpowering titan that is privatization?


Reference:
Separating Families Is a Crime Against Humanity. Retrieved from: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/13/us-reaches-agreement-over-separated-immigrant-families.html
Ackerman, Alissa R. and Rich Furman. 2013. “The Criminalization of Immigration and the Privatization of the Immigration Detention: Implications for Justice.” Contemporary Justice Review.