#p2 #ows #tcot “The two largest private prison companies, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group, combined had over $2.9 billion in revenue in 2010. While private prison companies may try to present themselves as just meeting existing 'demand' for prison beds and responding to current 'market' conditions, in fact they have worked hard over the past decade to create markets for their product. As revenues of private prison companies have grown over the past decade, the companies have had more resources with which to build political power, and they have used this power to promote policies that lead to higher rates of incarceration.” http://www.justicepolicy.org/uploads/justicepolicy/documents/gaming_the_system.pdf “Corporations [ esp. Correctiions Corporation of Ammerica and GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut) ] are running many American prisons, but will they put profits before prisoners? A grim new statistic: One in every hundred Americans is now locked behind bars. As the prison population grows faster than the government can build prisons, private companies see an opportunity for profit. This week, NOW on PBS investigates the government's trend to outsource prisons and prisoners to the private sector. Critics accuse private prisons of standing in the way of sentencing reform and sacrificing public safety to maximize profits.”–PBS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHVu4ZD9XQE “NOW looks at how the private corrections industry is profiting when immigrants — including children — are held in detention centers awaiting deportation. Loretta Perry-Wilborne, a former employee of the Aurora Detention Center in Colorado, gives us an insider's view of a detainees' life behind bars. 'It's freezing in the winter time … and we have a lot of detainees that get sick,' she tells NOW”–PBS http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/419/video-prisons.html The Shameful Cycle of Wells Fargo's Profits https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=370337663013856&set=a.142494355798189.22655.100001128762625&type=1&theater Prison Slavery http://books.google.com/books?id=zbTU7QxA7qoC&pg=PP6&lpg=PP6&dq=prison+slavery+book&source=bl&ots=uICyD1W1JU&sig=WP7My6kIZxtS3DOk8D35fhAZjs0&hl=en&ei=rsXJTuPQKtGrsAK12exi&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBA&fb_source=message#v=onepage&q=prison%20slavery%20book&f=false Join: Committee To Abolish Prison Slavery (CAPS) Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/50250792513/
#p2 #ows #tcot “The two largest private prison companies, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group, combined had over .9 billion in revenue in 2010. While private prison companies may try to present themselves as just meeting existing 'demand' for prison beds and responding to current 'market' conditions, in fact they have worked hard over the past decade to create markets for their product. As revenues of private prison companies have grown over the past decade, the companies have had more resources with which to build political power, and they have used this power to promote policies that lead to higher rates of incarceration.” http://www.justicepolicy.org/uploads/justicepolicy/documents/gaming_the_system.pdf “Corporations [ esp. Correctiions Corporation of Ammerica and GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut) ] are running many American prisons, but will they put profits before prisoners? A grim new statistic: One in every hundred Americans is now locked behind bars. As the prison population grows faster than the government can build prisons, private companies see an opportunity for profit. This week, NOW on PBS investigates the government's trend to outsource prisons and prisoners to the private sector. Critics accuse private prisons of standing in the way of sentencing reform and sacrificing public safety to maximize profits.”–PBS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHVu4ZD9XQE “NOW looks at how the private corrections industry is profiting when immigrants — including children — are held in detention centers awaiting deportation. Loretta Perry-Wilborne, a former employee of the Aurora Detention Center in Colorado, gives us an insider's view of a detainees' life behind bars. 'It's freezing in the winter time … and we have a lot of detainees that get sick,' she tells NOW”–PBS http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/419/video-prisons.html The Shameful Cycle of Wells Fargo's Profits https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=370337663013856&set=a.142494355798189.22655.100001128762625&type=1&theater Prison Slavery http://books.google.com/books?id=zbTU7QxA7qoC&pg=PP6&lpg=PP6&dq=prison+slavery+book&source=bl&ots=uICyD1W1JU&sig=WP7My6kIZxtS3DOk8D35fhAZjs0&hl=en&ei=rsXJTuPQKtGrsAK12exi&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBA&fb_source=message#v=onepage&q=prison%20slavery%20book&f=false Join: Committee To Abolish Prison Slavery (CAPS) Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/50250792513/http://www.twitpic.com/9ow7oo