ITPI Commentary in Sector: Prisons, Detention and Public Safety

Thirty Years of Private Prisons: Nothing to Celebrate!

Posted on: 05/03/2013

PRESS CONFERENCE & RALLY FOR AN END TO FOR-PROFIT PRISONS

Tuesday, May 7, 11:30 – 1 p.m.
Outside CCA’s Correctional Treatment Facility
19th Street S.E. between Burke and C Streets, Washington DC

CCA is the oldest for-profit prison company in the nation. JOIN US to tell CCA that 30 years of profiting from human misery is nothing to celebrate!

Sector(s): Prisons, Detention and Public Safety

Corporate Prison Leaders Tell the Truth About Themselves

Posted on: 03/21/2013

FORM 10-K IS A TREASURE TROVE OF INFORMATION

Sector(s): Prisons, Detention and Public Safety

The Private Prison Industry: Resistance isn't Futile

Posted on: 02/29/2012

By Eric Lotke, SEIU

The private prison industry is on the march. In recent months the industry moved to take over 24 state prisons in southern Florida and buy five prisons in Ohio. Now it's making moves in Michigan.

But the industry doesn't always win. Resistance isn't futile.

Sector(s): Prisons, Detention and Public Safety

The Privatization of Public Services, State by State

Posted on: 02/02/2012

It seems there's no public service or piece of property that private companies are not eyeing as potential revenue streams. While funding anti-government think tanks like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), companies like Corrections Corporation of America, Waste Management, Maximus, Intuit, Laidlaw, Northrup Grumman, Koch Companies, Macquarie Capital Advisers, Pinnacle West, and UnitedHealthcare are hoping to use government as their candy store.

Sector(s): General, Education and School Services, Prisons, Detention and Public Safety, Water and Sewer

The Privatization of Public Services, State by State

Posted on: 02/02/2012

It seems there's no public service or piece of property that private companies are not eyeing as potential revenue streams. While funding anti-government think tanks like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), companies like Corrections Corporation of America, Waste Management, Maximus, Intuit, Laidlaw, Northrup Grumman, Koch Companies, Macquarie Capital Advisers, Pinnacle West, and UnitedHealthcare are hoping to use government as their candy store.

Sector(s): General, Education and School Services, Prisons, Detention and Public Safety, Water and Sewer

ITPI Commentary in Sector: Prisons, Detention and Public Safety

Thirty Years of Private Prisons: Nothing to Celebrate!

Corporate Prison Leaders Tell the Truth About Themselves

The Private Prison Industry: Resistance isn't Futile

The Privatization of Public Services, State by State

The Privatization of Public Services, State by State

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