Private Prisons and ICE Detention

Tom Steyer, the billionaire Democratic contender in the California governor's race, is facing renewed scrutiny over past hedge-fund investments in private prisons as he pushes a high-profile anti-ICE agenda. Steyer has proposed aggressively curtailing the agency's work — including measures such as prosecuting agents and releasing certain detainees — but critics and rivals have seized on disclosures that his fund once held a stake in CoreCivic, a major operator of immigration detention facilities, a position he has since called a mistake.