News & Commentary about Private Prisons
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Feb 21, 2013
Sponsoring a Florida College Football Team Can’t Whitewash a Private Prison Company’s Atrocious Record
Feb 8, 2013
Private Prison Company Celebrates Black History Month -- Wait, What?!
Feb 4, 2013
States Should Run Screaming From the CCA to Avoid Dangerous and Disgusting Prisons
Jan 29, 2013
Happy Birthday to the Corrections Corporation of America? Thirty Years of Banking on Bondage Leaves Little to Celebrate
Jun 18, 2012
A Tale of Two Communities . . . and Zero Private Prisons
Jun 4, 2012
States Take Sizeable Steps in 2012 to End Overincarceration
May 30, 2012
Prisoners of Profit: Immigrants and Detention in Georgia
May 30, 2012
What We’re Doing About Louisiana’s Prison Crisis
May 10, 2012
ACLU v. CCA: The Private Prison Debate Challenge