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Columbia Students Launch Divestment Campaign To Get Money Out Of Prisons
Columbia Prison Divest pressured the university to dump $8 million in Corrections Corporation of America, the country’s largest private prison company, as well as shares in other behemoths of the private security industry.
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Monitors to Phones to Meals: These 5 Corporations Are Quietly Making Billions Off Incarceration
Companies off the popular radar are benefiting from epidemic prison and jail building – some may even be even operating in your neighborhood.
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The Prison State of America
Prisons are prototypes for the future – where a million prisoners who currently work for corporations and government industries are models for what the corporate state expects us all to become
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Veronica Noriega’s Hunger Strike in Seattle: What it Means For Immigrants and All of Us
Veronica Noriega is putting herself on the line for thousands of families, and this is why you should care.
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FBI Investigates Private Prison Giant Running "Gladiator School" in Idaho
Corrections Corporation of America's prison in Boise earned the moniker because of its high rates of violence.
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How A Giant Private Prison Company Avoids Paying Taxes
To save tens of millions annually that they would have to pay to taxes, the Corrections Corporation of America — which runs 44 private prisons and detention centers across America — is now claiming to be a "Real Estate Investment Trust."
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How Lawmakers and Lobbyists Keep a Lock on the Private Prison Business
Of all the public services to be outsourced, incarceration -- where the state deprives a person of liberty and assumes responsibility for his or her mental and physical well-being -- should not be auctioned for campaign contributions.