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This has long been a political change that I have hoped would pass. In the US private companies are allowed to build and staff prisons. Despite claims that these prisons would be safer and more efficient (because capitalism), they have seen increased rates of violence and lower standards of care.
Corporations have long influenced legislation and those in charge of private prisons are no exception. The Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) is a major backer of the American Legislative Exchange Council - a group that has drafted legislation that it sent to politicians who in turn enacted laws such as mandatory minimums for non-violent drug offenders, three strike laws and truth in sentencing laws. These predictably have swollen the American prison system.
If this weren't enough, ALEC led the charge on drafting legislation that allowed corporations to both require work from prison inmates and dock their wages to offset the cost of incarceration.
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I think and hope that this is the first step in dismantling the prison industrial complex.
This has long been a political change that I have hoped would pass. In the US private companies are allowed to build and staff prisons. Despite claims that these prisons would be safer and more efficient (because capitalism), they have seen increased rates of violence and lower standards of care.
Corporations have long influenced legislation and those in charge of private prisons are no exception. The Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) is a major backer of the American Legislative Exchange Council - a group that has drafted legislation that it sent to politicians who in turn enacted laws such as mandatory minimums for non-violent drug offenders, three strike laws and truth in sentencing laws. These predictably have swollen the American prison system.
If this weren't enough, ALEC led the charge on drafting legislation that allowed corporations to both require work from prison inmates and dock their wages to offset the cost of incarceration.
http://ift.tt/2b0gWF1
I think and hope that this is the first step in dismantling the prison industrial complex.
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