private prisons

New York State Deconstructs Private Prisons; Becomes First State To Make Move

| June 24, 2019
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According to Sentenceproject.org, in 2016 there were 128,063 people incarcerated in private prisons in the United States. This totals up to 8.5% of the total federal and state prison population in the nation. Over the last two decades, this number has increased over 50% and most of those people are Black and Brown.  It is […]

Congress: Turning Prisons Into Profit Now More Than Ever

| June 4, 2015
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The US has the largest private prison network in the world, which only seeks to do one thing – generate money for the legislators who created it Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information When the US passed the Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program or (PIE) in 1979 to replicate real-world private sector “employment opportunities” for inmates of […]

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