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New Hampshire Senate Defeats Private Prison Ban

New Hampshire Senate Defeats Private Prison Ban: Leading the movement to fight back against the private prison industry, New Hampshire rejected all bids last month to house private prisons in the state, and passed a bill in the House to prohibit the private facilities that profit from incarceration. But the bill died in the Senate Thursday along party lines, with opponents saying [...]/p

New Hampshire Rejects All Private Prison Bids

New Hampshire Rejects All Private Prison Bids: New Hampshire officials rejected all four bids to privatize its prisons, citing prison operators’ insufficient understanding of court-mandated standards of inmate care, and proposed wages that are half what prison security staff now earn. The decision comes following a recent vote by the state House of Representatives to prohibit private prisons in the state. For-profit [...]/p

The Shame of America’s Gulag | Common Dreams

The Shame of America’s Gulag | Common Dreams
"As long as profit remains an incentive to incarcerate human beings and our corporate state abounds in surplus, redundant labor, there is little chance that the prison system will be reformed. It is making our corporate overlords wealthy. Our prisons serve the engine of corporate capitalism, transferring state money to private corporations. These corporations will continue to stymie rational prison reform because the system, however inhumane and unjust, feeds corporate bank accounts. At its bottom the problem is not race—although race plays a huge part in incarceration rates—nor is it finally poverty; it is the predatory nature of corporate capitalism itself. And until we slay the beast of corporate capitalism, until we wrest power back from corporations, until we build social institutions and a system of governance designed not to profit the few but foster the common good, our prison industry and the horror it perpetuates will only expand."

Private Prison Executive Isn’t Telling The Truth About GEO’s Record Of Juvenile Abuse

Private Prison Executive Isn’t Telling The Truth About GEO’s Record Of Juvenile Abuse: In the wake of the announcement that Florida Atlantic University would name its football stadium after private prison corporation GEO Group for a hefty price, an executive at the company is disseminating false and misleading information about the firm’s practices and documented abuses at its facilities. In both a statement to reporters and an op-ed, [...]/p

Cover Ups, Corruption and Death: What GEO Group Doesn't Want You to Know about Its New Stadium Sponsorship | Alternet

Cover Ups, Corruption and Death: What GEO Group Doesn't Want You to Know about Its New Stadium Sponsorship | Alternet
"The real story behind how the largest private prison company bought the naming rights to Florida Atlantic University's football stadium."

Republicans With Influence On Immigration Debate Are Top Recipients Of Private Prison Contributions

Republicans With Influence On Immigration Debate Are Top Recipients Of Private Prison Contributions: As the immigration reform debate heats up, private prison executives have made it clear that they are monitoring how it will affect their rates of incarceration. During a call with investors last week, Corrections Corporation of America CEO assured investors that there will “always be demand for beds”, reflecting concern that incarceration rates will actually go [...]/p

Private Prison CEO Assures Investors of ‘Strong Demand’ For Beds After Immigration Reform

Private Prison CEO Assures Investors of ‘Strong Demand’ For Beds After Immigration Reform: As the U.S. private prison industry has grown over the last several years, studies have shown that private prisons are incentivized to lobby for more incarceration. During an investor call this week, the CEO of private prison operator Corrections Corporation of America signaled that incarceration rates would remain high, assuring investors that immigration detention would be [...]/p

U.S. Prison Population Seeing 'Unprecedented Increase' | Common Dreams

U.S. Prison Population Seeing 'Unprecedented Increase' | Common Dreams
"The research wing of the U.S. Congress is warning that three decades of “historically unprecedented” build-up in the number of prisoners incarcerated in the United States have led to a level of overcrowding that is now “taking a toll on the infrastructure” of the federal prison system."

Prisons Will Consume 30 Percent Of Justice Department’s Budget By 2020

Prisons Will Consume 30 Percent Of Justice Department’s Budget By 2020: The latest numbers from the Urban Institute add a budgetary reason on top of the human reasons to reform the United States’ massive rates of incarceration: at current trends, spending on prisons will take up 29 percent of the Justice Department’s budget by 2020. Given the possibility of cuts to federal spending from either the [...]/p

Corrections Corporation of America Used in Drug Sweeps of Public School Students

Corrections Corporation of America Used in Drug Sweeps of Public School Students
"An unsettling trend appears to be underway in Arizona: the use of private prison employees in law enforcement operations."

Crazy Country: 6 Reasons America Spends More on Prisons Than On Higher Education | Alternet

Crazy Country: 6 Reasons America Spends More on Prisons Than On Higher Education | Alternet
"Dollars doing to prisons will soon outpace dollars going to higher education in every state of the union."

Prison, Drug War Spending Rockets While Higher Education Funding Declines | Common Dreams

Prison, Drug War Spending Rockets While Higher Education Funding Declines | Common Dreams
"In 2012, both corrections spending and student debt hit $1 trillion milestones, leading higher education advocates to wonder how prison costs soak up education allocations, thus hurting the economy and limiting low income students’ access to campuses."