‘Wall Street Journal’ spotlights Louisiana town making headlines over detainees
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‘Wall Street Journal’ spotlights Louisiana town making headlines over detainees
When the oil glut in the 1980s sent Louisiana’s economy reeling, leaders of Jena, a town about 45 minutes north of Alexandria, knew it needed to diversify. As the Wall Street Journal writes, private-prison company GEO Group stepped in and built a facility in the town in the late ‘90s and later won a contract to run the site as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, detention center. That contract has thrust the town—home to about 4,000…
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