What’s wrong with private prisons? 

“Don’t need them, can’t afford them and can’t trust them." 

AFSC program director Caroline Isaacs breaks down what’s wrong with private prisons in less than two minutes.

Immigration detainees watch from inside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement bus while “dreamers” try to block it last week as it left an ICE building in Phoenix. The detainees were headed for a detention center in Eloy for possible...

Immigration detainees watch from inside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement bus while “dreamers” try to block it last week as it left an ICE building in Phoenix. The detainees were headed for a detention center in Eloy for possible deportation.

Last Wednesday, four protesters belonging to the Arizona Dream Act Coalition were arrested after locking and chaining themselves to a gate outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Phoenix. Two more protesters were arrested after blocking a bus leaving the facility with a group of undocumented immigrants.

Full article here: http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20130825immigration-reform-dreamers-tactics-awareness.html

Profiting off of prisons?! Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) has led the way in privatizing prisons–that means they are making huge profits off of locking people up. Incarcerating people for money. It’s their 30th anniversary, and in this short video we’re saying: there’s not much about their business to celebrate.