“AB 32 is the most progressive and far-reaching bill on immigration detention in this country.” In a big win for prison reform and immigration advocates, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law on Friday a ...
“CoreCivic’s profit model is built around understaffing and constant lockdowns of poorly run, exceedingly dangerous prisons.” A July report from the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) and No Exceptions Prison Collective found that CoreCivic, a ...
There are now more black people in correctional control (prison, jail, probation, or parole) than there were enslaved in 1850. Sen. Bernie Sanders released a sweeping plan to overhaul America’s criminal justice system on Sunday, ...
“Companies that make money from the Trump administration’s inhumane immigration policy and a criminal justice system that disproportionately imprisons people of color are going to pay taxes like any other corporation.” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) ...
A recent report exposes how public pensions are intertwined with institutions that profit off mass incarceration. (Inequality.org) It’s been just over a year since West Virginia teachers began their historic strike, kicking off a new ...
“We will no longer bank the private prison industry.” (Reuters) JPMorgan Chase & Co has decided to stop financing private operators of prisons and detention centers, which have become targets of protests over Trump administration ...
The agency expects the company to sign the contract and get the approval from the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico in two weeks. (CPI) A plane chartered by CoreCivic, the main prisons ...
GEO Group is America’s largest private prison company with 141 prison facilities across the U.S. but a new report from MapLight in conjunction with the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting reveals the company may have violated ...
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