Cities aiming to thwart immigrant detention centers wield a secret weapon: local laws

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Cities aiming to thwart immigrant detention centers wield a secret weapon: local laws

Former corrections officer William Rogers still remembers the exact spot in 2018 where an inmate slashed his head open with a metal lunch tray.\"When he hit me in the back of the head, I mean it hurt. But I didn't know it was split open, right? Because at that point you're just going to fight,\" he said.Chronic understaffing and mismanagement at a now-closed private prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, made instances like this common, Rogers said. Memories of preventable overdoses, suicides, stabbings, medical neglect and overcrowded cells still haunt him.CoreCivic, the prison's owner and one of the country's largest private corrections ..