Detention Receipts: Follow the Money Behind Immigration Detention

Why it surfaced

Its central discipline is unusually clear: appropriation, award, obligation, and outlay remain separate evidence categories rather than one blurred total. The featured Camp East Montana record also labels the reported $776 million extension as a potential cost—not money already obligated—giving the project a useful editorial instinct for showing what the evidence does and does not establish.

A sourced public ledger connecting U.S. immigration-detention spending to contractors, facilities, documented conditions, deaths, and possible oversight points.