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California to End Funding of Child Prisons: A Window of Opportunity
In 1989, California was spending $600 million to supervise the 23,000 children under the control of California Youth Authority (CYA). Two thirds of those children were taken from the home and placed in a variety of scenarios, from group homes … Continue reading
Out of L.A.- FICPM Will Register 1 Million Voters Opposed to Mass Incarceration
When a young woman from Arizona asked how she could get her voting rights restored, she heard a blunt reply: “We don’t need you to get your rights restored. We need you to get together with other folks and work … Continue reading
Latest Immigration Case May Hit For-Profit Prisons In the Pocket
This week the Third Circuit Court of Appeals cast down a landmark ruling on Immigration Detention and Due Process. In what should be known as yet another victory for one man and his pen, Chiekh Diop fought his way out … Continue reading
Prison Town Economics 101: Pelican Bay (Crescent City, CA)
With prisoners in Pelican Bay willing to die rather than endure what is being done to them in the name of “the People of California”, we should pause to consider some basic math. The following example is a broad illustration … Continue reading
How I Expect California to NOT Release Prisoners… If We Let Them
By now, every activist is aware that the US Supreme Court “ordered California to reduce its prison population to 137.5%of design capacity within two years. Finding that the prison population would have to be reduced if capacity could not be … Continue reading
Million Dollar Neighborhoods report – How Much Do You Invest in Police & Prisons?
With Providence on the brink of bankruptcy (and everyone being asked to “tighten their belt”) it stands to reason that every budgeter re-examine their priorities. Mayor Taveras’ School Department will close the Messer School while taxpayers invest nearly $20 million in police … Continue reading
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National Prison Industry Divestment Campaign
From Causa Justa :: Just Cause, in California- “Today we stand in solidarity with community and labor groups that are taking to the streets to protest the private prison industry’s business model of pushing for harsher immigrant incarceration policies. … Continue reading
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Tagged boycott, Causa Justa, Corrections Corporation of America, divestment, Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility, GEO Group, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Halliburton, Just Cause, Pershing Square Capital Management, Prison, Private Corrections Institute, Private prison, United States, Wellington Management Company, Wells Fargo
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How Wells Fargo, and the 1% Use the Drug War
A new book, Amexica: War Along the Borderline, reveals details of how Wachovia bank (now owned by Wells Fargo) was caught red-handed laundering hundreds of billions of dollars from Mexico. This is a major pillar of the banking system. What … Continue reading →