As it benefits from the corporate coffers of private prison giant CoreCivic, the institute advocates privatized reentry programs from which the company profits.
Incarceration
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Monopolies, Trump, the Border, and Fascism
Concentrated corporate giants like Amazon and the private prison duopoly are sustaining Trump’s cruelties in the migrant camps.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
How Private Prison Companies Could Get Around a Federal Ban
Structured as real-estate investment trusts, private companies could receive funds to build prisons and lease them to governments for use.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Human Rights Watch Details Ongoing U.S. Criminal Justice Abuses
Despite recent progress toward criminal justice reform, the United States continues to pursue policies that encourage mass incarceration and fail to rehabilitate offenders, according to a Human Rights Watch report presented to the United Nations Human Rights Committee earlier this year. The international watchdog organization also detailed a spectrum of overreach and misconduct in the […]
Posted inLaw and Justice
California Ramps Up College Education Behind Bars
Prisons have been called universities of crime. What if they became, instead, actual universities?
Posted inCivil Rights in America
21 Savage and the 50,000 ICE Detainees
The Atlanta-based rapper’s untimely run-in with immigration enforcement agents offers a window into the world of the tens of thousands of immigrants currently locked in ICE jails.Â
Posted inLaw and Justice
Rethinking Incarceration
What needs to be done to be done to end our half-century long incarceration nightmare?
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Texas Detention Players Ramp Up Trump’s For-Profit ‘Baby Jails’
A Texas court ruling on child-care providers offers the Trump administration a way around protections for underage migrants.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Not Everyone Can Evacuate as Hurricane Florence Approaches
Many in the path of the storm, including poor residents and hundreds of prisoners, are forced to stay put.
