To Prison for Profit

$1.2 billion

Increase in the budget for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency from 2005 to 2007 ($3.5 billion to $4.7 billion)

$5.1 billion

Value of contracts the Federal Bureau of Prisons has signed with private prison companies to detain criminal immigrants

$162 million

Net income reported by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) in 2011

Percent of CCA revenue derived from federal contracts

$45 million

Dollars spent by private prison companies and their employees on lobbying and campaign contributions since 2000

$166

Cost per day to detain an undocumented immigrant, up from $80 in 2004

Percent of the general budget for the Town of Florence, AZ that comes from state revenues from the prison located there

17,000

Prison population of Florence

7,800

Resident population of Florence

Sources: USA Today; HuffingtonPost