Abolish Private Prisons

Abolish Private Prisons is 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to ending the practice of private, for-profit incarceration by challenging its constitutionality.

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A MUST READ this Juneteenth in the New York Times by Worth Rises Director of Research Tommaso Bardelli: "Labor that people have no meaningful right to refuse and that is enforced under conditions of total control is, unquestionably, slavery."
https://t.co/lZeTMBHG7U

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Labor “that is enforced under conditions of total control is, unquestionably, slavery,” write three members of NYU’s Prison Education Program Research Lab. “By all norms of international law it is a violation of fundamental human rights.”

Read: https://t.co/XmcFVM24q0

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In private prisons, each body held = a unit of profit. Humans are treated as commodities, as corporate holdings... they spend millions on lobbying & taxpayers foot the bill for all of it.

Learn more Friday at 12pm when we're joined by @AbolishPrivPris

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The private prison industry perpetuates this embarrassment by lobbying against criminal justice reform and donating massive amounts to political campaigns. Disgraceful.

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Trapped™

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We often think of doors as possibilities, but because of our mass incarceration regime, so many of those doors are slammed shut for people who have a criminal record. Great photo: https://t.co/VqI4xqDFlZ

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"The private prison industry plays a key role in a cycle encouraging ever-greater [immigration] detention." Read more about how the private prison industry contributes to overblown immigration detention in this amicus brief from the @FlorenceProject https://t.co/ypyVXCepLu

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Voting is fundamental to democracy - unfortunately, in many places, being convicted of a crime leads to a lifetime of disenfranchisement. At the same time, private prison companies impact the law by spending huge amounts of money on legislators, governors, etc. This isn't right.

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"While people of color are overrepresented in all prisons, the disparity is starker in private prisons...based on factors of which policymakers and the prison corporations themselves are well aware." @latinojustice amicus brief in Nielsen v. Shinn avail at https://t.co/qH8Dkji7gV

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APP just filed its opposition to the the defendant's motion to dismiss our amended complaint in Nielsen v. Shinn. You can get the filing (and all the others) at our website here:

https://t.co/umrrIoL4ie

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Tufts Community Union Senate passed two resolutions in a virtual meeting on Sunday night. The first, put forward by Tufts for a Racially Equitable Endowment, calls on Tufts to divest from private prison corporations.
https://t.co/uE4DaXeirV

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Throughout the month, #abolishprivateprisons will be positing about the impact that mass incarceration generally and privatization specifically has had on women to honor Women's History Month.

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“We think that private prisons are the modern form of slavery.” - Robert Craig of @AbolishPrivPris

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“Our court case says that the practice of holding people for profit by a private party is a violation of the Constitution. If the Supreme Court agrees, the institution of private prisons as we know it couldn’t exist.” - Robert Craig of @AbolishPrivPris

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Our second #PunishmentProfit episode on Operations + Management begins NOW with
@TheGreeneSpace. We’ll be live tweeting here!

Come join us! https://t.co/fK2gSXeWPG

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A short update from Executive Director John Dacey on the Biden Executive Order regarding for-profit prisons and the federal Department of Justice.
https://t.co/MrnCpIFGA9

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President Biden will shortly sign an Executive Order ending the further use of private prisons by the Department of Justice. This is *good* news, but it's only the first step in a long fight -- it only affects one federal agency, not states and not immigration detention.

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And it's official. Per the White House, President Biden will sign an EO at 2pm today directing the AG not to renew DOJ contracts with privately operated criminal detention facilities.

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This report from @SenWarren details how a supposed accreditation org was little more than a pay-to-play rubber stamp for private prisons. For-profit prisons are less safe, and we need to get rid of them ASAP. https://t.co/pPZ91gxRyc