How Trump used the criminal system to massively expand immigration detention

Over the last six months, Rodney Taylor has watched the Trump administration’s explosion in immigration enforcement from a detention cell in rural Georgia.

Taylor, a 47-year-old who had both of his legs amputated as a child, came to the United States from Liberia when he was two years old for medical care. In January, he was arrested and detained at Stewart Detention Center, where he has witnessed the facility become more crowded, and conditions get worse. Without enough beds, he said, men slept in common areas. Without access to enough toilets, he said they defecated in the showers. He says he has lost weight, because he can’t get enough nutritious food.

In a statement, Brian Todd, a spokesperson for CoreCivic

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