Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight,” Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) declared there would be a “reckoning” for the private prison companies’ staff running immigration detention facilities under Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s direction.

Co-host Alicia Menendez said, “You recently released a report as part of your Senate investigation into credible findings of human rights abuses in U.S. immigration detention. Let’s look at some of those numbers; 41 credible reports of physical and sexual abuse of individuals in U.S. immigration detention, 14 credible reports of mistreatment of pregnant women, 18 credible reports of mistreatment of children. When you put those numbers before your Republican colleagues, what defense do they have?”

Ossoff said, “Well, it’s indefensible. You know, the A

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