Detention Receipts: Every Detention Dollar Leaves a Receipt

Why it surfaced

The site turns a sprawling public-records subject into an evidence trail: one featured record follows a $452.9 million Amentum award for Camp East Montana alongside an audited account of waste and standards failures. Its method is unusually careful about separating awarded money, outlays, reported future costs, and documented conditions rather than collapsing them into one dramatic number.

A sourced public ledger tracing U.S. immigration-detention spending from appropriations and federal awards to contractors, facilities, documented harm, and possible points of institutional leverage.