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Category: Privatization

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Denver Canceled Its For-Profit Reentry Center Contracts. Your City Should Be Next!

8 Aug 20199 Aug 2019
By Caroline Isaacs, AFSC-AZ Program Director | This week, in a move that seemed to shock even themselves, the Denver City Council voted against renewing two multimillion-dollar contracts with GEO Group and CoreCivic,…
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Arizona Should Follow Illinois’ Lead In the National Fight to Curb ‘E-Carceration’

24 Apr 20197 May 2019
by James Kilgore, Guest Blogger | When I was released by the California state prison system way back in 2009, I was told that, if I wanted to parole to Illinois…
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Private Prison Companies Oppose Shareholder Resolutions Against Housing Separated Immigrant Families

22 Mar 2019
by Joe Watson Our friends at the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) – the Florida-based, nonprofit publishers of Prison Legal News and Criminal Legal News – announced that the Securities and…
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AFSC-AZ Honored for Activism and Advocacy Against the Private Prison Industry

8 Mar 20198 Mar 2019
This week, the Private Corrections Institute (PCI), a non-profit citizen watchdog organization based in Tallahassee, Florida, announced the 2018 awardees for individual activism and organizational advocacy against the for-profit prison…
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Too Many Problems with the Backwards First Step Act

20 Dec 201819 Mar 2019
by PENIEL IBE, AFSC Policy Fellow This week, a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill known as the First Step Act (S.756) advanced out of the U.S. Senate, with broad support…
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Why Our Movement Can’t Afford to Ignore Private Prison Corporations

17 Sep 201816 Sep 2018
In 1998, I was a budding anti-prison activist, volunteering for the American Friends Service Committee in Arizona (AFSC-AZ). I was fortunate enough to attend the very first Critical Resistance gathering in…
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Garcia, Farley & Fryer Take AFSC-AZ Pledge to Reject Donations from Private Prisons

6 Aug 201826 Sep 2018
Press Contact: Joe Watson Phone: 602.383.4155 Tucson, Arizona – August 6, 2018 – The American Friends Service Committee-Arizona (AFSC-AZ), in its efforts to reduce the size and scope of the…

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