"Private prisons` riseThe 20,625 so-called "criminal aliens" housed in Bureau of Prisons-contracted private prisons are low-security inmates, largely serving time for non-violent offenses: immigration crimes, drug crimes, fraud, burglary.
Randy Capps, director of research for U.S. programs at the Migration Policy Institute, cautioned against assuming that more immigrants will pour into private prisons.
"One of the appeals of the private prison system is it`s less expensive and is able to expand more quickly," Capps said.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he wants to maintain contracts with private prisons because he`s concerned about meeting the federal correctional system`s "future needs.
For many years, the populations of those private prisons grew, the result of aggressive drug prosecutions nationwide and stepped-up crackdowns on the border.
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