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UK Asylum Seekers Just Held a Mass Hunger Strike in Their Detention Center
We called some of them up so that they could tell us what’s been going on in their own words. They painted a picture of horrible food, constant coldness, and a lack of access to facilities and the outside world.
Campaign Convinces Companies Prisons Are a Pretty Shitty Investment
Telling companies that investing in prisons is unethical won't do much. But telling them that it's bad for your money will work much better.
An Ex-Con Takes Aim at Multibillion-Dollar Private Prisons
After being locked up for 10 years, Alex Friedmann crusades against what he sees as the immoral greed of private-prison corporations.
Corporations Are Cashing in on California's Prison Overcrowding Crisis
California is being forced by the courts to move inmates out of its overcrowded prison system, which is just another opportunity for the people who make money from incarceration to cash in.
Public Schoolteachers' Pensions Are Partially Funded by Private Prisons
Retirement funds for public school teachers (as well as other government employees) in several states have a combined $90 million invested in Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group, one of the largest private-prison companies in the...
Who’s Getting Rich off the Prison-Industrial Complex?
Many of America's prisons are run by for-profit corporations, so clearly some people are making lots and lots of money off the booming business of keeping human beings in cages. But who are these people? Using public data, I came up with some names.