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Victory! Pima County Passes Historic Resolution Against Use of Private Jails
Today, the Pima County (Tucson), Arizona Board of Supervisors passed a historic resolution to prohibit contracting with private, for-profit prison companies like GEO Group or Core Civic (formerly CCA) for jail operations. The American Friends Service Committee – Arizona (AFSC-AZ) welcomes this positive step forward. As states increasingly […]
Arizona further invests public retirement in Private Prisons
The American Friends Service Committee has long been opposed to Arizona’s deep financial involvement in the for-profit private prison industry. Fundamentally, that is because we believe that incarceration for profit is immoral. But we also know that these corporations are profoundly mismanaged, negligent, and do not deliver the […]
Reframing Justice: What No One Wants To Hear
While I was incarcerated at Marana State Prison, another inmate gave me a poem she wrote called “What No One Wants to Hear”. *It’s a pretty heavy poem- it captures a lot of the emotion of being incarcerated- anger, sadness, isolation, and inhumanity. I had been in and […]
Border Enforcement Expansions and Private Detention Centers
AFSC Arizona Program Director, Caroline Isaacs, discusses the impacts of border enforcement expansion on private detention centers.