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The Alabama Solution: Film Screening + Conversation Tickets, Thursday, Mar 5 at 6 pm | Eventbrite
The Alabama Solution: Film Screening + Conversation Tickets, Thursday, Mar 5 at 6 pm | Eventbrite
Join us for a thought-provoking screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary, The Alabama Solution.
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Worth Rises Corporate Database
The prison industry is comprised of over 4,000 corporations that profit off of incarceration. These corporations have a vested financial interest in expanding the reach of our carceral system and worsening the incredible harm it causes at the expense of public safety. It’s time we learn their names and get to know them.
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The Prison Industry | The New Press
The Prison Industry | The New Press
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10 states fund prisons using stolen Indigenous lands | Grist
10 states fund prisons using stolen Indigenous lands | Grist
Private-equity backed prison health companies continue despite decade of alleged constitutional violations | US prisons | The Guardian
Private-equity backed prison health companies continue despite decade of alleged constitutional violations | US prisons | The Guardian
The Guardian examined two private-equity backed companies that have been accused of failing to protect inmates from risk of harm, and even preventable death
Opinion | Private Prisons Are Booming Under Trump — Here’s What to Know
Opinion | Private Prisons Are Booming Under Trump — Here’s What to Know
I Was an Incarcerated Firefighter. Here’s What I Want People to Know.
I Was an Incarcerated Firefighter. Here’s What I Want People to Know.
California recently voted to preserve forced prison labor.
Opinion | Grab Your Calculators. We’re Going to Jail.
Opinion | Grab Your Calculators. We’re Going to Jail.
Our criminal justice system is nickel-and-diming people at every turn, burying them in punishing debt.
Bloomberg - The Last American Antislavery Campaign
Bloomberg - The Last American Antislavery Campaign
At least two states will vote this fall on whether to end forced labor for prisoners. Advocates have their sights set on a bigger goal—ending this exception to abolition in the US Constitution.
Private Prisons Want You To Go Directly To Jail
Private Prisons Want You To Go Directly To Jail
Private prison companies are pushing states to get tougher on crime, then cashing in on the profits.
Our Fathers Were Sent to Prison and We Couldn’t Afford to Stay Connected
Our Fathers Were Sent to Prison and We Couldn’t Afford to Stay Connected
We are just two of millions of children who’ve experienced family separation due to incarceration and the obscene costs of prison communications. Now we fight to make these services free.
The Slow Death of a Prison Profiteer: How Activism Brought Securus to the Brink
The Slow Death of a Prison Profiteer: How Activism Brought Securus to the Brink
On the hook to repay $1.3 billion of debt this year, the nation's largest prison telecom company, Securus, is on the verge of bankruptcy. Its failure would represent a remarkable victory for advocates—and a potential beginning of the end for the industry as we know it.
#EndTheException – New report on the fiscal benefits of ending prison slavery
#EndTheException – New report on the fiscal benefits of ending prison slavery
Education, research, and organizing tools to end slavery and the 13th Amendment exception in the US.
Prison phone fees drive poor families into debt. Are they finally coming to an end?
Prison phone fees drive poor families into debt. Are they finally coming to an end?
How a group of activists took on the telecom industry—and won.
Worth Rises — How Governments Exploit Prison Labor to Subsidize Their Budgets
Worth Rises — How Governments Exploit Prison Labor to Subsidize Their Budgets
Worth Rises exposé on how state governments exploit prison labor through correctional industries to subsidize budgets.
Podcasts
'Planet Money': The movement to make prison phone calls free
'Planet Money': The movement to make prison phone calls free
How did prison phone calls get to be so expensive? The team from The Indicator from Planet Money explains.
Unmarked cars and secret orders: How a pharmacy prepared drugs for Texas’ executions
Unmarked cars and secret orders: How a pharmacy prepared drugs for Texas’ executions
Beyond the Box Podcast
Beyond the Box Podcast
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