Nancy Hiemstra is a political geographer whose research focuses on US immigration enforcement policies. She is the author of Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime and co-editor of Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention. She is Associate Professor at Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York, US.

Deirdre Conlon is a critical geographer working in the US and Britain. Her work focuses on how immigration and border controls are proliferating as they are monetized. She is co-editor of Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention and Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention. She is Associate Professor based at the University of Leeds.

'A vital and troubling look at the grotesque practices of the privatized immigration detention industry, whose soaring profits are dependent on inflicting extreme suffering. This book is a microcosm of what ails America in an era of rampant capitalism and exclusionary nationalism'
Reece Jones, author of Nobody is Protected and White Borders

'A revealing overview of the American business of for-profit migrant incarceration ... [Immigration Detention Inc.] shines an urgent spotlight on an inhumane system'
Publishers Weekly

'Who knew that hatred driven by racism could be so lucrative? Hiemstra and Conlon's Immigration Detention Inc. answers this with a resounding and meticulously researched exposé of the political and economic forces driving the expansion of immigrant detention. This book is essential reading for policymakers, activists, and anyone concerned with immigration justice and the deeply rooted connections between public and private sectors'
Ravi Ragbir, immigration activist and co-founder of New Sanctuary Coalition

'In this shocking exposé of conditions in US immigration detention facilities, Conlon and Hiemstra reveal the high costs of privatisation-most obviously for those who are detained but also for the wider US society. Much of what is described is unfathomable: rotting food; failure to treat basic medical problems; gynaecological procedures undertaken without consent. Such matters are not exceptional, they are 'business as usual', the system working as designed. As states around the world turn with ever greater enthusiasm to immigration detention, this book offers a stark warning of all that will be lost in the process'
Mary Bosworth, Professor of Criminology, University of Oxford