SAGE News Clip: Detained Immigrant Work ConditionsDescription: Immigrants at a detention center in Denver are working under harsh conditions with the threat of solitary confinement if they refuse to work. When they are paid, it is as little as $1 per day. These detention centers are privately owned and the immigrants residing there may or may not have criminal charges--it is simply a holding space until their case is heard. GEO is one of the largest contractors with the United States federal government and GEO states that the work is “voluntary” and that the $1 per day pay is sufficient with regard to federal guidelines--a pay guideline set in 1950.Click on the above link to access the Interactive eBook. Once you've signed in, scroll to page 153 and watch the video. When you've

finished watching the video, come back to the test and answer the following questions:A conflict theorist might posit that definitions of deviance single out immigrants, allowing Geo to exploit their detainees. Politicians who have generated moral outrage and successfully led campaigns to have immigrants unproportionally labelled as deviant are known as ______.

A. labelers
B. moral entrepreneurs 
C. crime crusaders
D. interactionists


Answer: B

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