Prisons for Profit
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Business is Booming for the Prison Profiteers | Moorbey's Blog
Private corrections company The GEO Group celebrated the holiday season by opening a new 1,500 bed prison in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 12 th .
Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America : The New Yorker
A prison is a trap for catching time.
The end of the for-profit prison era? - Salon.com
The National Prison Divestment Campaign , launched last spring, includes a broad coalition of immigrant rights, criminal justice and other organizations targeting private prison companies like CCA and the GEO Group, the two largest private prison corporations in the United States. Affecting companies’ bottom lines is just one of the campaigners’ aims. Their larger goal is to raise public awareness about an industry they claim not only profits from incarceration, but also drives local and national immigration and criminal justice policy.
How the lobbyist group ALEC, incarcerated America. Glenn Nichols, City Manager of Benson, Arizona, recalls two men approached him a couple years ago. The two men, whom Nichols later explained, “equated to car salesmen,” were allegedly wearing gaudy jewelry, when they came to Nichols with a proposal.
Prison Lobby “ALEC” Influences Arizona Immigration Law And Worse!
The federal government calls it "the best-kept secret in outsourcing" — providing inmates to staff call centers and other services in both the private and public sectors. The U.S. government, through a 75-year-old program called Federal Prison Industries, makes about $750 million a year providing prison labor, federal records show.
U.S. News - Inside the secret industry of inmate-staffed call centers
A school superintendent in Michigan has written a public letter to the editor asking Governor Rick Snyder if his school can become a prison instead.
School superintendent to Governor: Please make my school a prison | Dangerously Irrelevant | Big Think
Law Professor Michelle Alexander says the shocking incarceration rate is due to the War on Drugs, a war waged almost exclusively in poor communities of color. “More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began,” Michelle Alexander told a standing room only house at the Pasadena Main Library this past Wednesday, the first of many jarring points she made in a riveting presentation.
More Black Men Now in Prison System Than Were Enslaved | | AlterNet
Today marks the end of a seven-day strike where tens of thousands of inmates in Georgia refused to work or leave their cells until their demands had been met. The odd thing is, that until today, no one had ever heard about this strike.
