Mary Gay Scanlon: “As a representative from Pennsylvania, a State that was targeted by Russian efforts to subvert the 2016 election...”

It’s inhumane. It’s traumatizing, and it’s particularly grotesque because this is then being done so private prison companies can make more profit.

We all enjoy the extra hour or so of sunlight in the summer, but when people are considering this, they need to consider the extra hours of darkness in the winter.

We would be much better off if we were actually spending money to create a functioning immigration system.

So we have the situation where people are being jailed and then forced to work essentially for free to maintain basic sanitation, food, etc.