Interview | Prisons & Policing California Moves to Ban For-Profit Prisons, Including Immigrant Jails The legislation follows the death of a migrant in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! October 3, 2019 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Private Prisons Face 87.4 Percent Financing Gap as Banks Continue to Flee Eight banks have publicly committed to ending their future financing relationships with the private prison industry. By Gin Armstrong , EyesontheTies August 17, 2019 Truthout
News Analysis | Prisons & Policing Resistance to Private Prisons Comes Amid Debate Over Immigrant Detention Policy Controversy over immigration policy is shining an unwelcome spotlight on the private prison industry. By Lauren-Brooke Eisen , BrennanCenterforJustice August 4, 2019 Truthout
News | Immigration ICE Contracts Are Booming. See Which Vendors Are in Your State. Companies and vendors have made over $12.7 billion from contracts with ICE since 2010. By Alex Kotch , Sludge August 1, 2019 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Big Banks Are Divesting From Private Prisons, Thanks to Anti-ICE Activism CoreCivic and GEO Group, the two largest private prison companies, stand to lose $1.9 billion in financing. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout July 23, 2019 Truthout
News | Immigration Lawsuit Could Force For-Profit Detention Centers to Pay Detainees Minimum Wage People in CoreCivic's detention centers are paid $1 a day for their labor. CoreCivic is paid $95 a day to detain them. By Claire Heddles , Truthout July 17, 2019 Truthout
News | Immigration Asylum Seekers Are Being “Disappeared” in Private Louisiana Jails Migrants are increasingly hard to track down amid a tangled web of private contractors and misinformation. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout May 17, 2019 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing We Won’t Let Our Pensions Build Prisons Educators are coming together to demand that no pension funding go the prison industry. By Michelle Sapere , SocialistWorker March 14, 2019 Truthout
News Analysis | Politics & Elections Unseated by Ocasio-Cortez, Crowley Joins Revolving Door Lobbyists Two months out of office, Joe Crowley, who lost to Representative Ocasio-Cortez, has joined a corporate lobbying firm. By Derek Seidman , EyesontheTies February 22, 2019 Truthout
Op-Ed | Politics & Elections DeSantis’s Corporate Backers Hope His Racist Dog-Whistles Will Boost Profits The private prison industry and gun lobby need racist rhetoric, like that used by DeSantis, to bolster their agenda. By Rachel Gilmer , Truthout November 4, 2018 Truthout