Privatisation, accountability, securization, blurred lines --- States are using neoliberal policies to privatise prisons, immigration detention and other security services as a way to distance themselves and therefore reduce accountability. If private companies are running places of detention then is it not in their interest for (more) people to be detained? Lines blurred further when the same companies that are running prisons are also running immigration detention. This can lead to increased securization of immigration detention (detention which is meant to be purely administrative and not punitive) which is a cause of concern.

Source author: Cara Ceriani caraceriani@hotmail.com