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POLITICS
Republican Legislator In Texas Admits He’s Pushing Private Prison Corporation’s Bill
By César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Guest Writer
Guest Writer
The bill would make it easier for private prison corporations to help the federal government lock up migrant families.
POLITICS
Private Prison Companies May Shoot For Trump Infrastructure Cash
By Donald Cohen, Contributor
Executive Director, In the Public Interest
From what we know about the plan, when Trump says "rebuild," he really means "privatize."
EDUCATION
Education Reform Is Drowning America's Children in a Bathtub
By Steve Nelson, Contributor
Author, Columnist, Grandparent
The New York Times has a lot of chutzpah. The Times, like most major newspapers in America, has been deeply complicit in
POLITICS
The DOJ's Decision To Stop Using Private Prisons Is Just The First Step
By Donald Cohen, Contributor
Executive Director, In the Public Interest
Last week was a turning point. The U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) announcement that it will wind down its use of private prisons is a major step in the struggle to end for-profit incarceration in America.
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POLITICS
Why Are We Incarcerating Asylum Seekers?
By Alexandra M. Goncalves-Pena, Contributor
Supervising Attorney, American Friends Service Committee
Why are asylum seekers being held in detention for months or years while they wait for the resolution of their case?
POLITICS
Private Prison Company Already Shopping Around New Mexico Prison That Doesn't Close Until October
By Donald Cohen, Contributor
Executive Director, In the Public Interest
Private prison companies are roadblocks to meaningful criminal justice reform. Every taxpayer dollar that goes to their profits is a dollar not spent on improving conditions in jails and prisons or investing in alternatives to incarceration.
POLITICS
It's Been A Rough Few Weeks For The Private Prison Industry
By Donald Cohen, Contributor
Executive Director, In the Public Interest
Despite the bizarre politics on display in Cleveland, sometimes knowing where someone stands on an issue is pretty straightforward. We can be sure about this: The private prison industry doesn't share our goal of ending mass incarceration.
POLITICS
The Corrections Corporation of America is Blocking Immigrants from Seeing Their Lawyers at a Georgia Detention Center
By Morris Dees, Contributor
Founder, Southern Poverty Law Center
ICE recently settled a lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union to provide better telephone access to immigrants detained
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POLITICS
Hillary Clinton Says She'll End Private Prisons, Stop Accepting Their Money
By Elise Foley
Her campaign says she wants to "end the era of mass incarceration."
CRIME
Going Undercover in Jailhouse USA
By Alexander Reynolds, Contributor
Journalist, author, advocate for prison reform and social justice
Arrested, cuffed and booked, I was close enough to share the same breath as the lower depths of modern day America. Child molesters. Rapists. Murderers. Nazis. Gangbangers. Drug dealers. Thieves. Recidivists. Taxpayers. Voters. Citizens. People who were just like you and me.
POLITICS
Immigration Attorneys Allege ICE Is Making It Tougher To Help Women In Detention
By Elise Foley
Immigration attorneys have stepped in to provide legal services for the families. The Catholic Legal Immigration Network
EDUCATION
Opt Out and Save Democracy
By Steve Nelson, Contributor
Author, Columnist, Grandparent
If enough parents are willing to join the movement, keep their children home on test days, ignore the threats, the battle lines will be clear. School officials, local school boards, state legislators and members of Congress will be faced with a real school choice: Whose side are you on?
POLITICS
Captive Customers: Outsourcing Prison Services Is Ruining Lives and Bilking Taxpayers
By Donald Cohen, Contributor
Executive Director, In the Public Interest
Introducing for-profit companies into America's criminal justice system has been a bad deal for governments across the country.
POLITICS
Prisons Are Adopting the Walmart Business Model
By Carl Takei, Contributor
Staff Attorney, ACLU's National Prison Project
High recidivism rates mean more people behind bars, and Corrections Corporation of America depends on more and more incarceration to make its billions. Since when do they actually want people to do well after they get out, instead of being sucked back into the system?
POLITICS
Never Mind What the Constitution Says, Our Prison System Has Run Amok
By Gerry Myers, Contributor
CEO, president and co-founder of Advisory Link
Taxpayers are paying thousands of dollars to send people to prisons when the fines are less than the cost of incarceration. Some counties even brag about the amount of money raised from fines, but they are using false math.
BLACK VOICES
Private Prisons Are Losing
By Rashad Robinson, Contributor
Executive Director of Color Of Change
Over the past 20 years, the number of people locked up for-profit has increased by 1,664 percent, but the horrors of the industry have not been experienced evenly.
CRIME
Selling Prisoners to the Highest Bidder
By Roy Speckhardt, Contributor
Roy Speckhardt is executive director of the American Humanist ...
Why would prisons fully pursue important policies like educational programs intended to prevent recidivism? If such policies were effective and decreased the number of inmates in their prisons it would negatively impact their bottom line.
IMPACT
Private Prisons: The Case for Divestment
By Rashad Robinson, Contributor
Executive Director of Color Of Change
Our criminal justice system is not a business, and people who are incarcerated should not be treated as assets on a corporate ledger.
POLITICS
Reality Has Turned the Tide Against Private Prisons
By Donald Cohen, Contributor
Executive Director, In the Public Interest
Coast-to-coast, governments are realizing that outsourcing corrections to for-profit corporations is a bad deal for taxpayers, and for public safety.
COLLEGE
End the Prison-Industrial Complex
By Michael Shammas, Contributor
Writer & Lawyer
There are plenty of legitimate reasons to send someone to prison, but profit is not among them. Unfortunately, it is an obscenely large reason that American prisons today house more inmates than any other country on this planet. Freedom lost is money gained.
POLITICS
The Unfulfilled Promise of International Migrants Day
By Azadeh Shahshahani, Guest Writer
Guest Writer
As such, the ACLU of Georgia recently submitted letters to the Inter-American Commission Rapporteur on the Rights of Migrants
BUSINESS
The Biggest, Baddest Prison Profiteer of Them All
By Jesse Lava and Sarah Solon, Contributors
Profiting off mass incarceration is a dirty business. When private prison company Corrections Corporation of America squanders taxpayer money and runs facilities rife with human rights abuses, it's dragging its own name through the mud.
CRIME
18 'USO Family' Prison Gang Members And Affiliates Indicted
By Gabriela Aoun
All of the indictees were members of or associated with the “USO Family” prison gang. “USO” stands for United Samoan Organization
RELIGION
The Sinful Irony of the Prison Industrial Complex
By David A. Davis, Contributor
Pastor, preacher, teacher,
While so many work for and preach about and campaign on ending the cycle of repeated incarceration, essential programs for rehabilitation and job preparation and learning have been systematically, intentionally, exponentially eliminated.
POLITICS
Brown's Prison Plan Bucks National Trends, Enriches For-profit Prison Corporations
By Bob Libal, Contributor
Executive Director of Grassroots Leadership
With these records, how do these companies continue to win such lucrative contracts? Part of the answer lies where the companies invest their profits.
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