Mark Karlin, Truthout: Michelle Alexander: ''The mass incarceration of poor people of color, particularly black men, has emerged as a new caste system, one specifically designed to address the social, economic, and political challenges of our time. It is, in my view, the moral equivalent of Jim Crow.''
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10629-truthout-interviews-michelle-alexander-on-the-irrational-race-bias-of-the-criminal-justice-and-prison-systems
Correctional Corporation of America Accreditation Report Misses Stark Reality
Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: ''Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) has ample reasons to pat itself on the back: ... several of its facilities got over 98 percent ratings for 'safety and security' and it rounded off 2011 with a net income of $40.5 million in earnings. But below the spin is a different reality for the company and the prisoners that it oversees - food riots and abuse scandals.''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10631-correctional-corporation-of-america-accreditation-report-misses-stark-reality
Private Prisons Spend $45 Million on Lobbying, Rake in $5.1 Billion for Immigrant Detention Alone
Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress: ''Nearly half of all immigrants detained by federal officials are held in facilities run by private prison companies, at an average cost for each detained immigrant is $166 a night. That s added up to massive profits for Corrections Corporation of America, The GEO Group and other private prison companies.''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10688-private-prisons-spend-45-million-on-lobbying-rake-in-51-billion-for-immigrant-detention-alone
Meet the Industry That Makes the Koch Brothers Look Poor
Robert Greenwald and Jesse Lava, Brave New Foundation: ''This nation is now spending over $200 billion a year on a justice system that locks up more people than any country on earth.... This colossal system is hitting our communities with staggering financial and human costs - gobbling resources that should be going to strengthening communities.''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11266-meet-the-industry-that-makes-the-koch-brothers-look-poor
California Spends More on Jails Than Higher Education
Nicole Flatow, ThinkProgress: ''As California struggles to comply with a court order to reduce its prison population, a new study finds that the state now spends more on its correctional system than on higher education. Since 1980, the prison population has skyrocketed 436 percent, while spending on higher education has decreased by 13 percent adjusted for inflation, according to the report by California Common Sense.''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11428-california-spends-more-on-jails-than-higher-education
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For-Profit Prison System Preying on Immigrants
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/02-2
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How US lawmakers and lobbyists keep a lock on the private prison business
America s three largest private prison companies spent in the region of $45m over the past 10 years in lobbying state and federal governments. During the same period, these companies saw their profits soar as they scored more government contracts.
http://is.gd/ohjUIC
From Information Clearing House
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+lawmaker
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=justice+system
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