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Under Activist Pressure, Portland Agrees to End All Corporate Investments
The decision was a victory for activists organized along intersectional lines.
Fighting Mass Incarceration Under Trump: New Strategies, New Alliances
We cannot hope for a shift toward prison reform under the self-declared “law-and-order” president-elect.
DHS Committee Recommends Shifting Away From Private Prisons, but Is It Enough?
Immigration detention in the United States has become an industry, one that is extraordinarily profitable to those who run it.
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Why Private Prison Company GEO Group Backed Donald Trump
I've been worried about corporate political spending since long before Citizens United.
Could Portland Lead the Way for Cities Nationwide to Divest From the Dakota Pipeline and Private Prisons?
Portland could become the first US city to divest from banks financing the Dakota Access pipeline and private prisons.
DHS Is Reviewing Private Immigration Detention; What Will That Mean Under a Trump Presidency?
Now more than ever, it is vitally important that we look at the policies that are driving for-profit detention.
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As the Private Immigrant Detention Business Persists, Families Fight Back
Privately run ICE detention centers make millions off the broken US immigration system and backwards policies.
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No Way to Call Home: Incarcerated Deaf People Are Locked in a Prison Inside a Prison
A team of reporters takes an in-depth look at the experience of deaf people behind bars.
Maya Schenwar on the DOJ Ending Use of Private Prisons: Will Decarceration Follow?
Truthout's Maya Schenwar says the announcement won't affect federal immigration detention centers or state prisons.
Private Prisons Are Far From Ended: 62 Percent of Immigrant Detainees Are in Privatized Jails
What does yesterday's DOJ announcement on private prisons mean for decarceration efforts?