“This was about the best thing that could happen to private detention since sliced bread,”

Inside the administration's $1 billion deal to detain Central American asylum seekers

As Central Americans surged across the U.S. border two years ago, the Obama administration skipped the standard public bidding process and agreed to a deal that offered generous terms to Corrections Corporation of America, the nation's largest prison company, to build a massive detention facility for women and children seeking asylum.

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