...and by that I mean that we need to break with business as usual in the American prison system and get on with immediate and comprehensive reform.
Check out this video from Cuéntame:
From their website:
1) The victims: Private prisons don't care about who they lock up. At a rate of $200 per immigrant a night at their prisons, this is a money making scheme that destroys families and lives.
2) The players: CCA (Corrections Corporation of America), The Geo Group and Management and Training corporations - combined these private prisons currently profit more than $5 billion a year.
3) The money: These private prisons have spent over $20 million lobbying state legislators to make sure they get state anti-immigration laws approved and ensure access to more immigrant inmates.
TAKE THE PLEDGE:
I stand with Cuéntame's "Immigrants For Sale" campaign and be part of the nationwide network of Prison Watchers that will follow and expose the players, the money and the victims in this corrupt money making racket.
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Darkness at Noon: Georgia Dumps Peaches for Prisons With Immigration Law Today (May 13, 2011, Jeff Biggers at Huffington Post)
Governor signs Arizona-style immigration bill into law (May 13, 2011, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The perverse incentives of private prisons (August 2010, The Economist)
Private Prisons Found to Offer Little in Savings (May 19, 2011, NYT)
A Shabby Crusade in Wisconsin (March 25, 2011, NYT Editorial on ALEC's meddling in higher education)
