Close for-profit detention center.

• Position: On the Line - Stewart Detention Center - Brief article

Lumpkin, Georgia

Nearly 300 demonstrators marched from the town square of Lumpkin, Georgia, to the gate of the Stewart Detention Center on November 18. The protesters called for the closing of the center and highlighted inhumane conditions inside the facility. The center is the largest privately owned, for-profit immigration detention center in the United States and is run by the Corrections Corporation of America.

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