Politics by the Numbers
Earlier today I read a DailyKos publication titled “15 things everyone would know if there were a liberal media” by akadjian on August 7th. Although I don’t necessarily agree with […]
Louisiana | The Prison Capital of the World! 7 Times More Inmates than All of China
Private prisons are the biggest shame of our country – to profit off of the incarceration of people. No other country in the world makes any type of profit from […]
Life Inside the CCA Owned New Mexico Women’s Prison
Here is a very well done report about the women’s prison in New Mexico. This report briefly covers the dog rescue and training program, Heeling Hearts. I am one of […]
Private Prisons Offering to Buy State-Run Prisons
Private prisons are one of the largest corporations in history to profit directly from the misery of people, and now they want to buy out state-ran facilities. The main stream […]
Alabama Farmers Look to Replace Migrants With Prisoners
The United States is one of the most modern countries in the world, yet we have the largest prison population which is growing rapidly every year. One would think that […]
CCA to Build a Privatized US Immigrant Prison in Florida
If you are not familiar with private prisons, they are prisons built and owned by private companies, stockholders, shareholders, etc. Each investor makes a profit for each inmate housed in […]
New Exposé Tracks ALEC-Private Prison Industry Effort to Replace Unionized Workers with Prison Labor
Many of the toughest sentencing laws responsible for the explosion of the U.S. prison population were drafted by the American Legislative Exchange Council, which helps corporations write model legislation. Now […]
New stats out: Private prison populations up 120%. Lobbyists paying $6 million+ to state officials.
New report in from Dailykos.com, “Private prison companies boost incarceration rates for profit” A new report from the reformist Justice Policy Institute concludes that private prison companies have not only […]
CCA’s involvement with SCOTUS ruling to release CA prisoners
On May 23rd, 2011, SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the US) ruled in Brown v. Plata that California must reduce its prison population by over 30,000 prisoners. Why? Because their system […]
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