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November 2, 2011 Executive Summary The imprisonment of human beings at record levels is both a moral failure and an economic one — especially at a time when more and more Americans are struggling to make ends meet and when state governments confront enormous fiscal crises.
Banking on Bondage: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration, Profit and Loss
A graph of the incarceration rate under state and federal jurisdiction per 100,000 population 1925-2008 (omits local jail inmates). The male incarceration rate ( top line ) is ~15 times the female rate ( bottom line ).
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Gaming the System: How the Political Strategies of Private Prison Companies Promote Ineffective Incarceration Policies — Justice Policy Institute
Paul Ashton, Justice Policy Institute Published: June 22, 2011 At a time when many policymakers are looking at criminal and juvenile justice reforms that would safely shrink the size of our prison population, the existence of private prison companies creates a countervailing interest in preserving the current approach to criminal justice and increasing the use of incarceration.Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law
Glenn Nichols, city manager of Benson, Ariz., says two men came to the city last year "talking about building a facility to hold women and children that were illegals." Laura Sullivan / NPR
LAST week authorities captured two fugitives who had been on the lam for three weeks after escaping from an Arizona prison.
Private prisons: The perverse incentives of private prisons
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Private Prisons:Profits of Crime
Corporate Con Game
On May 29 in Tucson, Ariz., a policeman questions a man in the city’s predominately Latino south side. The Tucson Police Department is gearing up to train its officers on how to implement the state’s new immigration law, S.B. 1070. (Photo by: Scott Olson/Getty Images) How the private prison industry helped shape Arizona’s anti-immigrant law. Members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) include Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), Geo Group and 36 Arizona state legislators.
Ties That Bind: Arizona Politicians and the Private Prison Industry
Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce (R-Mesa), with a supporter. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) A revolving cast of lobbyists and legislators blur the line between public service and corporate profits. State lobby reports show that Brewer's current spokesman, Paul Senseman, previously worked as CCA's chief lobbyist in ArizonaWells Fargo
An older Wells Fargo branch , located in Berkeley, CAFor inmates at one Georgia prison, a one minute phone call could cost them five times more than they earn for a day of work. The Correction Corporation Of America's Stewart facility, a private prison in Lumpkin, Georgia, is forcing prisoners to pay five dollars per minute to use the phone, Alternet reports ( h/t ThinkProgress ).
Inmates In Private Georgia Prison Charged Five Dollars Per Minute For Phone Calls
The Hidden History of ALEC and Prison Labor
This article is part of a Nation series exposing the American Legislative Exchange Council, in collaboration with the Center For Media and Democracy.Free people are not the only ones who are exploited by large corporations.
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