Reports on Private Prisons

Reports and Articles

• Americas Program: “Wall Street and Immigration: Financial Services Giants Have Profited from the Beginning” 12/04/2007
• Americas Program: “Wall Street and the Criminalization of Immigrants” 6/10/2010
• In These Times: “Corporate Con Game: How the private prison industry helped shape Arizona’s anti-immigrant law.” 6/21/2010
• NPR: “Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law” 10/28/2010
• NPR: “Shaping State Laws With Little Scrutiny” 10/29/2010
• ACLU: “Prisons for Profit: A look at Prison Privatization” 04/2011
• Wall Street Journal: “Prison Companies Are a Conviction Buy” 5/2/2011
• AFSCME: “Making A Killing: How Prison Corporations Are Profiting From Campaign Contributions and Putting Taxpayers at Risk.” 5/4/2011
• Detention Watch Network: “The Influence of the Private Prison Industry in Immigration Detention” 5/11/2011
• Cuentame’s Immigrants for Sale Video: English or Spanish 5 /12/2011
• Justice Policy Institute: “Gaming the System: How the Political Strategies of Private Prison Companies Promote Ineffective Incarceration Policies” 6/22/2011
• ACLU: “In Their Own Words: Enduring Abuse in Arizona Immigration Detention Centers” 07/2011
• Common Cause: “Legislating Under the Influence: Money Power, and the American Legislative Exchange Council” 08/2011
• National Immigration Forum: “The Math of Immigration Detention: Runaway Costs for Immigration Detention Do Not Add Up to Sensible Policies” 08/2011
• Human Rights First: “Jails and Jumpsuits: Transforming the U.S. Immigration Detention System” 10/2011
• Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service: “Unlocking Liberty A Way Forward for U.S. Immigration Detention Policy” 10/2011
• UC Berkeley School of Law: “Secure Communities by the Numbers: An Analysis of Demographics and Due Process” 10/15/2011
• Applied Research Center: “The Perilous Intersection of
  Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System” 11/2011
• ACLU: “Banking on Bondage: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration” 11/02/2011
• PICO: “Unholy Alliance: How the private prison industry is corrupting our democracy and promoting mass incarceration” 11/15/2011
• AFSC: “Private Prisons: The Public’s Problem
  An Investigation into the Performance of Arizona’s Private, For-Profit Prisons” 12/20/2011
• Sentencing Project: “Too Good to be True: Private Prisons in America” 01/13/2012
• Private Corrections Institute Policy Brief: “Do Private Prisons Save Money?” 01/25/2012
• Michigan Corrections Organization: “Pitfalls and Promises: The Real Risks to Residents and Taxpayers of Privatizing Prisons and Prison Services in Michigan,” 02/14/2012
• Corazon de Tucson: The Corrections Corporation of America How CCA Abuses Prisoners, manipulates the Public and Destroys Communities. January 2012

Websites

• ALEC related political contributions from CCA and GEO Group
• Alto Arizona for information on Arizona’s SB1070
• We Are Florida for information on anti-immigrant laws in Florida
• Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights and Somos Georgia for information on Georgia’s HB87
• ACLU Prisoners’ Rights
• ALEC Exposed
• Arizona Prison Watch
• Bail Bond Policy
• Business of Detention
• California Prison Focus
• California Prison Watch
• Center for New Community
• Critical Resistance
• Detention Watch Network
• Georgia Detention Watch
• Georgia Prison Watch
• Louisiana Prison Watch
• Maine Prison Watch
• Mississippi Prison Watch
• Nevada Prison Watch
• North Carolina Prison Watch
• Ohio Prison Watch
• Pennsylvania Prison Watch
• Prison Abolitionist
• Prison Legal News
• Prison Watch Network International
• Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity
• Private Corrections Working Group
• Real Cost of Prisons
• Texas Prison Bid’ness
• Turning the Tide
• Utah Prison Watch
• Why I Hate CCA Blog