The Problem With Private Prisons
Check out this great opinion piece at CNBC.com by David Shapiro of the ACLU National Prison Project about the problems with the for-profit, private prison industry. Says David: Now is the time for serious criminal justice reform, not privatization s...
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License to Abuse? Time for Bureau of Prisons to Sever Ties with CCA
In 2009, a 39-year-old detainee at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, died after a heart infection was allegedly allowed to go untreated. Stewart, the largest immigration detention center in the country, is owned by the Corrections ...