Reports on Private Prisons, ALEC, and more
Reports and Articles
- Americas Program: “Wall Street and Immigration: Financial Services Giants Have Profited from the Beginning” 12/04/2007
- Americas Program: “Wall Street and the Criminalization of Immigrants” 6/10/2010
- In These Times: “Corporate Con Game: How the private prison industry helped shape Arizona’s anti-immigrant law.” 6/21/2010
- NPR: “Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law” 10/28/2010
- NPR: “Shaping State Laws With Little Scrutiny” 10/29/2010
- ACLU: “Prisons for Profit: A look at Prison Privatization” 04/2011
- Wall Street Journal: “Prison Companies Are a Conviction Buy” 5/2/2011
- AFSCME: “Making A Killing: How Prison Corporations Are Profiting From Campaign Contributions and Putting Taxpayers at Risk.” 5/4/2011
- Detention Watch Network: “The Influence of the Private Prison Industry in Immigration Detention” 5/11/2011
- Cuentame’s Immigrants for Sale Video: English or Spanish 5 /12/2011
- Justice Policy Institute: “Gaming the System: How the Political Strategies of Private Prison Companies Promote Ineffective Incarceration Policies” 6/22/2011
- ACLU: “In Their Own Words: Enduring Abuse in Arizona Immigration Detention Centers” 07/2011
- Common Cause: “Legislating Under the Influence: Money Power, and the American Legislative Exchange Council” 08/2011
- National Immigration Forum: “The Math of Immigration Detention: Runaway Costs for Immigration Detention Do Not Add Up to Sensible Policies” 08/2011
- Human Rights First: “Jails and Jumpsuits: Transforming the U.S. Immigration Detention System” 10/2011
- Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service: “Unlocking Liberty A Way Forward for U.S. Immigration Detention Policy” 10/2011
- UC Berkeley School of Law: “Secure Communities by the Numbers: An Analysis of Demographics and Due Process” 10/15/2011
- Applied Research Center: “The Perilous Intersection of
Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System” 11/2011 - ACLU: “Banking on Bondage: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration” 11/02/2011
- PICO: “Unholy Alliance: How the private prison industry is corrupting our democracy and promoting mass incarceration” 11/15/2011
- AFSC: “Private Prisons: The Public’s Problem
An Investigation into the Performance of Arizona’s Private, For-Profit Prisons” 12/20/2011 - Sentencing Project: “Too Good to be True: Private Prisons in America” 01/13/2012
- Private Corrections Institute Policy Brief: “Do Private Prisons Save Money?” 01/25/2012
- Michigan Corrections Organization: “Pitfalls and Promises: The Real Risks to Residents and Taxpayers of Privatizing Prisons and Prison Services in Michigan,” 02/14/2012
Websites
- ALEC related political contributions from CCA and GEO Group
- Alto Arizona for information on Arizona’s SB1070
- We Are Florida for information on anti-immigrant laws in Florida
- Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights and Somos Georgia for information on Georgia’s HB87
- ACLU Prisoners’ Rights
- ALEC Exposed
- Arizona Prison Watch
- Bail Bond Policy
- Business of Detention
- California Prison Focus
- California Prison Watch
- Center for New Community
- Critical Resistance
- Detention Watch Network
- Georgia Detention Watch
- Georgia Prison Watch
- Louisiana Prison Watch
- Maine Prison Watch
- Mississippi Prison Watch
- Nevada Prison Watch
- North Carolina Prison Watch
- Ohio Prison Watch
- Pennsylvania Prison Watch
- Prison Abolitionist
- Prison Legal News
- Prison Watch Network International
- Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity
- Private Corrections Working Group
- Real Cost of Prisons
- Texas Prison Bid’ness
- Turning the Tide
- Utah Prison Watch
- Why I Hate CCA Blog
