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On Second Thought For Thursday, October 13, 2016


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More people are prosecuted for illegally crossing the border than any other federal crime. But these inmates are not held in prisons run by the U.S. government. They're placed in a little-known system of private prisons that were set up to save money. Two of these prisons are in Georgia. Host Celeste Headlee speaks with reporter Seth Freed Wessler, who wrote about the history of these prisons and why dozens of men have died in this system. Then, thousands of refugees are detained at the Stewart
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