News Archive
The privatization of prisons, immigration detention centers, and related services like probation and post-release monitoring has largely gone unnoticed until recently.
Abolish Private Prisons strives to collect as much of the news about this phenomenon as possible and to serve as a repository of information for activists and other interested individuals.
Private Prison Contractors
Private Prison Companies Encourage Mass Incarceration by Owning Facilities
Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Monitoring of Contract Prisons
Map of Corrections Corporation of America Locations
Corrections Corporation of America Annual Reports
Corrections Corporation of America 2016 Notice and Proxy Statement
Corrections Corporation of American 2015 Form 10-K
Corrections Corporation of America Political and Lobbying Activity
Corrections Corporation of America 2015 SEC Filing
Private Prisons Blur the Line Between Real People and Real Estate With New IRS Property Gambit
Private Prison Corporations Are Modern Day Slave Traders
Churches
Arizona faith leaders oppose prison expansion
Abolish Private Prisons, Says UCC Southwest Conference
Methodist Church Pulls Investments From Private Prisons
Board screens out private-prison stocks
United Methodist Church Divests from CCA and GEO
Presbyterian Church USA: Resolution Calling for the Abolition of For-Profit Private Prisons
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Universities
UW-Madison student council calls for divestment; officials say they won't change practices
DivestKenyon protests as spring board meeting approaches
Princeton PPD Wants University To Divest In Private Prisons Programs
Students Continue Divestment Push - Princeton
Harvard students circulate petition urging their administration to divest from private prisons
University of California To Divest From Private Prisons
Georgetown CISR Urges Board Of Directors Against Private Prions Investments
Vanderbilt: Private prisons, (y)our contributions and the need to divest
Economics Nobel Prize 2016 winner Oliver Hart showed the danger of private prisons
Update: Columbia University divesting from private prison companies. Why other schools should too.
Racial Inequality
Private Prison Corporations are Modern Day Slave Traders
The Science of Justice: Race, Arrests, and Police Use of Force
Study supports suspicion that police are more likely to use force on Blacks
The Color of Corporate Corrections
Judge Sentenced To 28 Years For Selling Black Teens To Prisons
Why For-Profit Prisons House More Inmates Of Color
Mass Incarceration: Race Crime and Justice A Fresh Look at Old Questions
Private prisons profit off race prejudice
Disability & Mental Illness
InCorrect Care: A Prison Profiteer Turns Care into Confinement
Poverty
Is America Engaged In A 'Vicious Circle' Of Jailing The Poor?
Private Probation Services Penalize the Poor
Immigration & Detention
A Federal Judge Put Hundreds of Immigrants Behind Bars While Her Husband Invested in Private Prisons
In Texas, Private Prisons Boom As Immigrant Detentions Rise
Growing private detention industry threatens immigrants' rights on the U.S.-Mexico border
Private prisons boom in Texas and across America under Trump's immigration crackdown
How much do private prisons stand to gain from Trump's immigration enforcement policies?
Immigrant groups target Wells Fargo for supporting 'Trump campaign of hate'
Immigration crackdown is golden for private prisons
This industry stands to benefit from Trump's crackdown on the border
Private Prison Companies Will Still Lock Up Immigrants, Despite DOJ Decision
Inside the administration's $1 billion deal to detain Central American asylum seekers
How ICE Shields Its Financial Dealings With Private Prison Contractors From Public Scrutiny
Banking On Detention: Local lockup quotas & the immigrant dragnet
Detention Watch Network v. Immigration Customs and Enforcement and Department of Homeland Security
International News
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