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Private prisons
Private prisons news and analysis from The Nation
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March 8, 2019
Next up? All the other major banks financing private detention centers.
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December 6, 2018
Here’s how the incoming Democratic Congress can expose it and make the case for bold reform.
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November 21, 2018
The weed business promised to save this struggling California town. So far, it’s been a bust.
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July 24, 2018
A grassroots movement to divest from private prison companies running immigrant-detention facilities is gaining steam.
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June 20, 2018
Private-prison groups and several Fortune 500 companies are profiting off “zero-tolerance” enforcement.
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May 31, 2018
Dispatches from the Urban Resistance, May 2018: From Phoenix to Detroit and beyond.
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May 1, 2018
You can also join a campaign to expose the Wall Street companies profiting off of the immigrant detention industry.
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March 16, 2018
Wealthy donors across the political spectrum are zeroing in on our jails and prisons as the latest locus of privatization.
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December 14, 2017
A conversation with Lauren-Brooke Eisen on her new book on private prisons and the long shadow of mass incarceration.
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May 11, 2017
And it’s hurting society’s most vulnerable communities the most.
