Reading stories about child detention centers raises two questions in mind: Are these federal facilities, or private sector contractors for a fee running the operations? Are these facilities former federal private-contractor prisons?

And there is a third question; "free to leave" to then go to or end up where, exactly? A fourth, is there something in CFR or by Executive Order which sets minimal health and hygiene standards for these "centers?"

City Pages reports. And, gee. The question line is answered; except for whose pockets are being lined in the course of "administrative" decision-making and implementation conduct City Pages describes:

Department of Homeland Security’s Office Inspector General released a report calling the conditions “dangerous.”

Some children have been sitting for days without access to showers, clean laundry, and working toilets. Two facilities weren’t even supplying them with hot meals until the department checked in, forcing the kids to survive on bologna sandwiches.

Even worse, the feds are wildly overpaying private companies for these services. In exchange for Third World conditions, the cost per person runs $750 a day, roughly twice as much as you'd pay at the finest hotels in downtown Minneapolis.

Does Marriott or Halliburton or some connected major firm run such sites, or is the Trump administration giving cushy human supervision contracts to fly-by-night grifters? For all the press covers the question, these lucrative sites might be operated by one of the nation's Erik Prince style mercenary contractors. What insurance contracts are required, and who has that business? Is a sound paper trail being maintained, or is the operation document-deficient?
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