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Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015
Private Prison Corporation GEO Group Expands its Stable of Former Top Federal Officials by Darwin Bond-Graham Private Prison Corporation GEO Group Expands its Stable of Former Top Federal Officials by Darwin Bond-Graham On July 2, 2014, private prison corporation GEO Group added yet another former government official to its inner …
Private Prison Information Act Reintroduced in Congress with PLN’s Help by Private Prison Information Act Reintroduced in Congress with PLN’s Help On December 10, 2014, U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) reintroduced the Private Prison Information Act (PPIA) in Congress. The bill, HR 5838, requires non-federal correctional and detention facilities …
Article • February 28, 2015
CI: Faith, Inc. and Criminal Justice Reform by Kay Whitlock CI: Faith, Inc. and Criminal Justice Reform Criminal InJustice† is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal InJustice …
Article • February 28, 2015
Confidence Men and "Prison Reform" by Kay Whitlock Confidence Men and "Prison Reform" By Kay Whitlock, Critical Mass Progress | Op-Ed Smoke and Mirrors is a new series that dives into the details of "bipartisan prison reform" to reveal the right-wing, neoliberal carceral sleight of hand that's really at work. …
Article • January 13, 2015
Former Florida Prison Chief Released from Federal Prison by Former Florida Prison Chief Released from Federal Prison For assisting prosecutors in convicting co-conspirators, a Florida federal district court reduced the prison sentence of former Florida Department of Correction (FDOC) Secretary James Crosby. Crosby and his protégé, Allen Clark, were convicted …
Prison Bankers Cash in on Captive Customers by Daniel Wagner Prison Bankers Cash in on Captive Customers by Daniel Wagner Pat Taylor doesn’t believe in going into debt. She keeps her bills in a freezer bag under her bed, next to old photo albums, and believes in paying them on …
Article • December 3, 2014 • from PLN December, 2014
Report Spurs Investigation of Bank of America, JPMorgan Prison Deals by Daniel Wagner Report Spurs Investigation of Bank of America, JPMorgan Prison Deals Government auditors are investigating exclusive contracts held by Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. to provide financial services inside federal prisons. by Daniel Wagner …
Pay to Prey Report on the Privatization of Public Services Center for Media and Democracy 2014 Pay to Prey Governors Facilitate the Predatory Outsourcing of America’s Public Services CENTER FOR MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY October 2014 © 2014 Center for Media and Democracy. All rights reserved. No part of this document …
A Way Forward - Diverting People with Mental Illness from Inhumane and Expensive Jails into Community-Based Treatment that Works, ACLU & Bazelon, 2014 A WAY FORWARD: Diverting People with Mental Illness from Inhumane and Expensive Jails into Community-Based Treatment that Works TABLE OF CONTENTS I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.......................................................................................................... 1 A. FINDINGS............................................................................................................................ …
Skewed Justice: Report on Lobbying's Effect on Sentencing Trends - American Constitution Society, 2014 10/22/2014 FireShot Capture - Skewed Justice - http___skewedjustice.org_ Summary The e::-.:plosion in spending on television attack a dve1tisements in state supreme court elections accelerated by the Citizens United decision has m ade courts less likely to …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Reflections on the No More Jails Campaign in Champaign County, Illinois by James Kilgore When we began our campaign to stop jail construction in Champaign County, Illinois in early 2012, I thought we were doomed. The grand plan to spend $20 million on this project seemed like a done deal. …
Article • July 13, 2013
Newest Texas Criminal Justice Lobbyist is Powerful Texas Business Group by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke The most powerful business group in Texas, the Texas Association of Businesses (TAB) has announced its intention to influence the future course of criminal justice reform in Texas. TAB president Bill Hammond said TAB …
Prison Health Care Provider under Fire in Illinois by Christopher Zoukis In 2011, the State of Illinois signed a 10-year, $1.36 billion contract with Wexford Health Sources, a for-profit company, to provide medical services to Illinois prisoners. Since the contract went into effect there have been numerous complaints concerning the …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
Utah: Private Company Offers to Pick Up Prison Tab by Eric S. Peterson One of the big efforts by the 2013 Utah legislature was authorizing the Prison Relocation and Development Authority to start taking proposals to relocate the Utah State Prison in Draper and unlock the prime real estate underneath …
U.S. Immigration Policy: Dysfunctional, Profitable and Resistant to Reform by Derek Gilna The nation's economy remains fragile, U.S. troops continue to fight a losing war in Afghanistan, North Korea has recently threatened a nuclear attack, and in March 2013 Congress and President Obama failed to reach a compromise to prevent …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
FCC Finally Moves on Wright Petition After Almost a Decade of Inaction by On December 28, 2012, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took a major step in a process that could lead to “just and reasonable” interstate phone rates for calls made from prisons, jails and other detention centers. “Today, …
Bailing on Justice: The Dysfunctional System of Using Money to Buy Pretrial Freedom by Tracy Velázquez by Tracy Velázquez, Melissa Neal and Spike Bradford* The practice of requiring someone to pay money to a court in order to remain free while awaiting trial is known as “money bail.” While considerable …
Private Prison Companies Use Political Influence to Increase Incarceration by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A June 2011 report by the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) reveals how for-profit private prison companies use political campaign donations, lobbyists and relationships with government officials to increase their profits by promoting policies that result …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Private Prison Monopolies by Christopher Petrella As the late business historian Alfred Chandler, Jr. once said, the visible hand of the corporation has been of far greater importance to capitalism than has Adam Smith’s so-called invisible hand of the market. Although modern forms of capitalism are justified, and often sanitized, …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
Bail Bond Companies Profit While Poorest Defendants Remain in Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As America’s prison population has swelled over the past three decades to become the largest per capita in the world, the number of special interests that feed off the so-called prison industrial complex …
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