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Private prisons
Private prisons news and analysis from The Nation
April 30, 2019
In recent years, corporations have privatized almost every part of the public prison system. Now, PE firms are swooping in, seeking lavish returns for investors.
March 8, 2019
Next up? All the other major banks financing private detention centers.
December 6, 2018
Here’s how the incoming Democratic Congress can expose it and make the case for bold reform.
November 21, 2018
The weed business promised to save this struggling California town. So far, it’s been a bust.
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.
May 31, 2018
Dispatches from the Urban Resistance, May 2018: From Phoenix to Detroit and beyond.
May 1, 2018
You can also join a campaign to expose the Wall Street companies profiting off of the immigrant detention industry.
March 16, 2018
Wealthy donors across the political spectrum are zeroing in on our jails and prisons as the latest locus of privatization.
December 14, 2017
A conversation with Lauren-Brooke Eisen on her new book on private prisons and the long shadow of mass incarceration.
