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POLITICS
Private Prison Stocks Surge After Donald Trump Victory
By Roque Planas
Investors see a promising future in the business of locking people up for profit.
POLITICS
Major Private Prison Company Says It’s Doing Great, Despite Historic DOJ Decision
By Roque Planas
Thanks, Homeland Security!
BUSINESS
Largest Private Prison Contractor Slashes Jobs After Losing Federal Business
By Roque Planas
The Department of Justice’s decision to phase out privatized prisons is eating away at the CCA's profits.
POLITICS
The Department Of Justice Will Still Rely On Private Prisons In A Big Way
By Roque Planas
Nearly a third of those detained by the U.S. Marshals Service are locked up in privatized jails.
POLITICS
Private Prison Companies Will Still Lock Up Immigrants, Despite DOJ Decision
By Roque Planas
The new policy won't keep the government from making money off detained immigrants.
POLITICS
Largest Private Prison Company Could Lose Lucrative Family Detention Contract
By Roque Planas
Critics say family detention treats refugees like criminals, but the Obama administration has expanded the practice.
POLITICS
Here's How It Works: Industry, Lawmakers And Money Mingle In Cleveland
By OpenSecrets Blog, Contributor
Published by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics an...
In the tranquility of the Cleveland Botanical Gardens on Wednesday, Paul Ryan stressed the need to coordinate and strengthen the Republican party on the federal, state, and local levels. His audience? A bevy of state legislative leaders rubbing elbows with industry interests.
POLITICS
U.S. Can’t Force-Feed Hunger-Striking Immigrant Detainee Yet, Judge Says
By Roque Planas
Alaa Ismail Yasin stopped eating on April 17, arguing he qualifies for release from a Georgia detention center.
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
Another Black Man Goes to Prison
By Alexander Reynolds, Contributor
Journalist, author, advocate for prison reform and social justice
Just like last week and the week before, another black man will be going to prison. But the tragedy stops here. This man is not a criminal or a hopeless recidivist. This man is Barack Obama, the first sitting President of the United States to tour a federal prison -- El Reno in Oklahoma.
LATINO VOICES
Bed Quota Fuels 'Inhumane' And 'Unnecessary' Immigrant Detention: Report
By Roque Planas
The two largest private prison companies involved in detention -- Corrections Corporation of America and the GEO Group -- have
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.
CULTURE & ARTS
Hot Thursday Night Ticket - Art and Design at the California Academy of Sciences
By JD Beltran, Contributor
Artist, Designer, Writer, and Filmmaker
And that's only the beginning. Every week the Academy features a clever conceptual theme centered around science and nature
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.
BUSINESS
30 Ways The Prison Industry Gets Rich
By Katy Hall
POLITICS
With Immigration Reform Looming, Private Prisons Lobby to Keep Migrants Behind Bars (Updated)
By Laura Carlsen 285, Contributor
Contributor
Common-sense immigration reform has the multibillion-dollar private prison industry shaking in its boots. Its lobbyists are actively targeting members of congressional budget and appropriations committees to not only maintain, but increase incarceration of migrants.
BLACK VOICES
Private Prison In Violation Of Ohio State Law
By Leigh Owens
The report says “there has been a big staff turnover,” and only one staff person was properly trained to meet Ohio Risk Assessment
CHICAGO
Let's Slam the Door on Private Prisons Once and for All
By Lawrence Benito, Contributor
CEO and executive director, ICIRR
Illinois faces a crucial decision: Do we allow a notoriously irresponsible company like the Corrections Corporation of America into our state, or do we send them a clear message that Illinois does not need this kind of crisis?
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