{"id":1226,"date":"2015-03-12T09:18:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T14:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:29:17","slug":"closed-after-riots-an-immigration-detention-facility-in-willacy-texas-is-now-up-for-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/2015\/03\/12\/closed-after-riots-an-immigration-detention-facility-in-willacy-texas-is-now-up-for-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Closed after riots, an immigration detention facility in Willacy, Texas is now up for bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/files\/2015\/03\/Willacy-County-Prison-Riot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1227\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/files\/2015\/03\/Willacy-County-Prison-Riot.jpg\" alt=\"Willacy County Prison Riot\" width=\"599\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On March 9, the private company is due to bid for contracts to run a new immigrant facility in Leflore County, Miss., as well as four existing immigration facilities throughout Texas. MTC will compete for these contracts with two bigger private prison operators, the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and The GEO Group, Inc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarshallproject.org\/2015\/03\/04\/after-willacy\">here<\/a> for the full Marshall Project article, by Maurice Chammah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;On March 9, the private company is due to bid for contracts to run a new immigrant facility in Leflore County, Miss., as well as four existing immigration facilities throughout Texas. MTC will compete for these contracts with two bigger private prison operators, the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and The GEO Group, Inc.&#8221; Click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[114,126,127,128],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","tag-harvard-plap","tag-prison-privatization","tag-prison-riots","tag-willacy-county-correctional-center","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}