[Audio interview with Seth Freed Wessler]

Tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants are being held inside privately run federal prisons in the US, and, according to a new, in-depth Nation investigative report, there have been disturbing numbers of deaths in it. Based on more than 9000 documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, reporter Seth Freed Wessler spent over a year working on the piece, entitled, “This Man Will Almost Certainly Die.”