When Federal Officials Ignore Deaths in Private Prisons

A guard escorts an immigrant detainee from his 'segregation cell' back into the general population at the Adelanto Detention Facility on November 15, 2013 in Adelanto, California.

Seth Freed Wessler, contributor to The Nation and reporter with the Investigative Fund, reveals how federal mismanagement and lack of oversight has led to deaths in unregulated private prisons. In "Federal Officials Ignored Years of Internal Warnings About Deaths at Private Prisons,” he exposes deficiencies through multiple FOIA requests and lawsuits, and 20,000 pages of previously unreleased federal monitoring reports.