Blog… 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…
Blog… 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…
AFSC in the News… 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…
Blog… 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…
Blog… 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…
Press Release… 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…
Blog… To Free Migrant Families, We Must Fight to Decarcerate Everyone 17 Jul 2018 In the wake of the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy, more than 2,500 children were separated from their parents and placed into detention “shelters” across the US. The cruelty of…
