Private Prisons Prosper Under President Trump

Toward the end of his administration, President Obama was reducing the federal government's reliance on private prisons. That changed when Donald Trump was elected president. What happened? We asked Lauren-Brooke Eisen, senior counsel at the Brennan Center’s Justice Program at NYU's School of Law, and the author of Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration. https://www.insideprivateprisons.com Photo: Karnes County Residential Center, an immigrant detention center run by the private prison company CoreCivic. By Ilana Panich-Linsman/KUT