Texas Senate Votes to License Baby Jails as Child Care Facilities

[HAB911]

SB 1018 would effectively lower state standards in order to license the facilities. The legislation was written by a for-profit private prison corporation.

The Texas Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would license immigrant family detention centers, which critics call “baby jails,” as child care facilities. Democrats railed against Senate Bill 1018, which would allow prison firms to skip all the burdensome regulations that other child care facilities must follow.

The bill was written by GEO Group, Inc., the nation’s second-largest for-profit prison corporation. It advanced on a 20-11 party-line vote, with all Senate Republicans in favor.

“The very idea of holding children in a baby jail is unconscionable in my book. … They’re not leaving their country to come here for fun,” said Senator Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston. “This is a vendor bill if I’ve ever seen one.”

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-senate-votes-license-baby-jails-child-care-facilities/

[Skidmore]

1. Let's call these what they are--concentration camps. nt

[mopinko]

3. i think internment camps is a little more accurate.

till they start gassing kids, or working them to death, internment is more accurate.

[oasis]

2. Cashing in on the misery of "others". That's how Republicans roll.

[procon]

4. In what alternate universe do the rich and powerful get to write the laws

that squash the voice of the people... oh, the GOP, you say? Okay then, never mind.