New York Could Soon Become the First State to Get Rid of Private Prisons
Matt Agorist – New York State is taking a bold move against their corporatist private prisons.
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Inefficiency of Privatizing – Outsourcing Prisons, Public Services, Education and Justice
Michael Thomas, Guest Waking Times Many nations, including the US, have taken to the idea of “privatisation”, which really means giving the ownership or responsibility of a certain service to a privately owned institution -corporation- instead of opting for a transparent representative or democratic control. The argument most often given in support of these privatisation …
Florida Students Take on Private Prison Industry
Ken Butigan, Waging Nonviolence Contributor Waking Times Let’s imagine it’s 2063. Florida Atlantic University’s board of trustees has established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to disentangle the school’s historical support for the for-profit prison system — including its decision a half-century earlier to award its football stadium naming rights to the GEO Group, the nation’s …