Cell-Out Arizona Exclusive: Documents Show Arizona Officials Knew Private...
Documents recently obtained by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) show that the state of Arizona deliberately circumvented and ultimately repealed a state law requiring private for-profit...
View ArticleState and National Groups Oppose Plan for 2,000 More For-Profit Prison Beds...
As the August 31st deadline for award of a new private prison contract draws near, there’s been a healthy public debate as to the justification (or lack thereof) of the state’s plan for up to 2,000...
View ArticleCCA’s Dirty Thirty, Part I: The All-Arizona Edition
This year, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) is celebrating 30 years of profiting from incarceration. CCA was one of the pioneers in for-profit prison management, and today is the world’s...
View ArticleCrony Capitalists Invent the “SIFI” Shield for Protection from Competitors...
Tea Party Conservatives and Occupy Wall Streeters don’t agree on much, but they do agree on one thing — both groups despise crony capitalists and crony capitalism. Huge corporations, especially banks,...
View ArticleCCA’s Dirty Thirty, Pt. II: Video Birthday Card
AFSC, along with our friends at Grassroots Leadership and the Public Safety and Justice Campaign, is participating in a week of coordinated actions to mark the 30th Anniversary of Corrections...
View ArticleEmerging Free-Market Health Care Solutions Compete with Obamacare
Just as small mammals emerged, survived, and thrived among the hulking dinosaurs of their time, small-scale, faster, cheaper, and simpler health care solutions are emerging as alternatives to the...
View ArticleCementing Relationships: CCA, DLR, JE Dunn, and $50 Million of YOUR Money
The influence of private prison industry in Arizona is well documented. Even though they will be publicly run, the companies slated to design and build a proposed 500 new maximum-security prison bed –...
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