Comment by trhway

in the recent story on NPR about a young Mexican guy dying (ruled suicide) in the privately run ICE detention center it was mentioned that the attempts of the relatives to reach him on the phone were unsuccessful as the center's employees were not able, for some unknown reason, to call the guy to the phone, and instead the center's employees suggested to the relatives that the relatives have to put money in the detainee's account first and after that the detainee would be able to call them himself. The motivation here is pretty obvious to anyone who knows about the outgoing rates from the detention center and who profits from it. Practically the definition of extortion.