PHOENIX—The American Friends Service Committee of Arizona, a non-profit criminal justice reform organization, has released an assessment of the July 2015 riots in the Arizona State Prison Complex in Kingman, Arizona. The prison, managed by for-profit corporation Management and Training Corporation, was rocked by a series of disturbances […]
For Immediate Release Media Contact: Matthew Lowen, American Friends Service Committee, Arizona mlowen@afsc.org, 520.869.6392 (cell) On Monday, December 1, 2014 at 11am, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), will hold a press conference in front of the Arizona State Capitol to announce the release a new report highlighting the […]
For Immediate Release Media Contacts: Caroline Isaacs, American Friends Service Committee | cisaacs@afsc.org | 520.256.4146 Eshe Cole, Grassroots Leadership | ecole@grassrootsleadership.org | 512.971.0487 Kathryn Hamoudah, Southern Center for Human Rights | khamoudah@schr.org | 404.688.1202 —– (Tucson, AZ; Austin, TX; Atlanta, GA) – American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Grassroots Leadership, and the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) will […]
American Friends Service Committee and Human Rights Defense Center For Immediate Release PHOENIX, AZ – Last Friday, the Arizona Republic reported that House Appropriations Chairman John Kavanagh had inserted $900,000 in additional funding into the House state budget for the GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest for-profit prison company. Rep. […]