Private Prisons
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Pot Legalization Foe Getting Rich off the Drug War
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(También en Español) News of Note: Pot Legalization Foe Getting Rich off the Drug War “The lobbyist who helped kill California’s Proposition 19, the 2010 ballot measure that would have legalized recreational marijuana, has constructed an entire business model around keeping pot illegal. While fighting against the proposed law, lobbyist John Lovell accepted nearly $400,000 from…
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Occupy Joins the Fight Against Private Prisons
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(También en Español) News of Note: Occupy Joins the Fight Against Private Prisons “Yango, a middle-aged African-American DC native active in both Occupy DC and the prison divestment movement, spent over a decade in Rivers Correctional Facility, a private prison located in Winton, North Carolina, 251 miles outside DC…. “Yango described his time there as…
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For-Profit Private Prisons
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News of Note: Private Prison Charges Inmates $5 a Minute for Phone Calls While They Work for $1 a Day Last year the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison company, received $74 million of taxpayers’ money to run immigration detention centers. Their largest facility in Lumpkin, Georgia, receives $200 a night…