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Prison Industry Divestment Campaign
Anti immigrant laws, like Arizona’s SB 1070 and Georgia’s HB 87, are not only a consequence of racism but also of the greed for money. It is a huge business to criminalize and incarcerate our communities because the federal government pays private prison companies a average of $122 per day per person in prison. Private Prison Companies like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group have influenced politicians to pass laws that criminalize communities of color to increase the prison population for more profit. These companies are making millions from incarcerating our loved ones. Those who benefit are companies (shareholders) that invest in the prison industry. Our government is building more prisons while cutting social services and schools, all with tax payer money. This is why Enlace has launched the Prison Industry Divestment Campaign to convince shareholders (banks, hedge funds, etc) to divest their funds from the prison industry so that we can make an impact on the prison business and reducing the power of CCA and GEO to lobby for laws that imprison our communities. Join the Campaign Today! For more information contact Enlace info@enlaceintl.org or 213-284-3802
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My experiences at Delaney impell me to support this campaign.
Sadly in modern America our government,President and media has the power to make any Latino American a “criminal”post 9/11 Era.We Latino are paying for all the hate of 9/11.They have criminalzied the American reality for all Latinos in USA!
hard times for all immigrants here in America with the undercover up business in the wrong hands with people in power, their is a lot of those undergoing business going on by the border they implicate the people and they ended out seizing their equipment property ,giving them a felony,and prison time serve and that is a big profiting business and they else are a triangle group
money greedy and selfish is the disastrous of human-being taking along innocent peoples, we perceivining more more in the after the 9/11. WE Latino are waging for all the decrimination of the color the skin, we need to desist the criminal act for all Latinos in USA….
This is not just Latinos but POOR PEOPLE, “Caucasian” (although many of us are “whited out” from darker ancestry of a few generations ago) people are targeted too!
Enabling corporations and their employees to assert force and control over citizen-felons has just got to be a Constitutional issue regarding cruel and unusual punishment, due process.
Imprisonment and punishment are not legitimate activities of profit-driven businesses. These are quintessential state activities, and their “privatization” has no legitimate basis. I’m astonished we’ve come this far without a decisive Supreme Court ruling on this matter.
I’m very happy to see that you are actually taking steps to stop this modern “Shanghai” practice. As you may know, not to long ago I was a victim of this unlawful indefinite detention, for three and a half years, by ICE (without real charges, or immigration laws violation), in one of the many PRIVATE DETENTION CENTERS operated by DHS/ICE!! I urge you to get involved in this effort to stop this unmoral, inhumane and illegal practice of the bigots that get richer by inflicting great suffering to immigrant families in this country!!
Please, tell me how I can help in this great effort?
You can help by participating in local actions and spreading the word. Thanks!
these people pay off politicians to write harsh laws and pick on immigrants to lock up in there private prisons
This sounds like a great campaign driven by common sense. Sadly, that is not in too big of supply in Congress.
“Sadly in modern America our government,President and media has the power to make any Latino American a “criminal”post 9/11 Era.We Latino are paying for all the hate of 9/11.They have criminalzied the American reality for all Latinos in USA!” WISE LATINA
“Hard times for all immigrants here in America with the undercover up business in the wrong hands with people in power, their is a lot of those undergoing business going on by the border they implicate the people and they ended out seizing their equipment property ,giving them a felony,and prison time serve and that is a big profiting business and they else are a triangle group” JOSE MORENO
“”Not to long ago I was a victim of this unlawful indefinite detention, for three and a half years, by ICE (without real charges, or immigration laws violation), in one of the many PRIVATE DETENTION CENTERS operated by DHS/ICE!!” MEME PRIETO And you my friend, are you getting involved to help stop this unconstitutional, unmoral and inhumane racist “business” practice? I urge to do it; “guilty is the one that commits a crime, as well as the one that witness the act and remains quiet about it”
PLEASE, GET INVOLVED IN THIS EFFORT!!
MEME
This injustice is not just against immigrants of color. It is all people of color that come from a lower socioeconimic status. Poor people that cannot afford justice are the targets. It’s Bushonomics. This is a way to bail out US STeel. It is a way to maintain the racism and hatred towards anyone NOT white. It is a way to maintain status quo……the rich get richer and the rest of us are damned.
The privatization of our penal system has already corrupted our system of justice. The case of the Juvenile Court Judges in Pennsylvania who were getting a kick back from private prison corporations for every juvenile they sentenced to their facilities should be example enough to overturn this hideous trend. Profiting from the incarceration of citizens can only lead to trumped up charges, corrupt prosecutors, corrupt Judges and corrupt Corporate practices, not even to mention the needless and grotesque burden placed upon those falsely accused and convicted and their families.