As a volunteer with Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention (laaid.org), I have been in occasional contact with people incarcerated in ICE prisons in Louisiana and Mississippi during the past year and a half.To a person, they all describe horrible conditions: crowded rooms, contaminated water, inedible food, inadequate medical care, verbally abusive and racist guards. One detainee told me that they received exactly one piece of fresh fruit per week, an apple on Sunday. This poor treatment is of course deliberate, for a couple of reasons. First, these prisons are run by private incarceration companies, such as Geo Group and...