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New Jersey lawmakers seek to tax private prisons following Delaney Hall controversy

After weeks of protests over alleged inhumane conditions at Newark’s Delaney Hall immigration detention facility, lawmakers advanced a bill Monday that would tax private prison operators and direct the revenue toward legal aid and community programs for detainees. Delaney Hall and Elizabeth Detention Center are the only two privately operated prisons in New Jersey, both […]

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