Gov. Ducey’s budget for FY2016 proposes 3,000 new medium-security for-profit prison beds—beds we don’t need. The Governor’s budget estimates that these new beds will cost taxpayers over $100 million over the next three years. Corrections is already the third largest state agency budget, absorbing 11% of General Funds. […]
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 […]
The for-profit private prison industry is breaking new ground, and not just in Dilley, Texas where the largest family immigrant detention center is currently being built. Aside from the tortured history of family detention centers in Texas (see list below), what makes this plan ground-breaking in the worst […]
Today the first step in ameliorating the horrific health care and poor conditions in Arizona prisons was taken when the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) settled with the ACLU of Arizona in a historic legal case, Parsons v. Ryan. This settlement is a win for Arizona prisoners and the […]
Mark Brnovich Brnovich served as “Senior Director of Business Development” for CCA from 2005-2007. He was a registered lobbyist for CCA in the state of Utah during 2005 and 2006. In 2007, Brnovich was working for both CCA and the US Attorney’s office, in a clear conflict of […]
Thanks to intense negative publicity and a flood of calls and emails from our members around the state, Rep. John Kavanagh’s attempt to sneak a $900,000 giveaway to GEO Group into the state budget was defeated last night. In today’s Arizona Republic, Kavanagh was named one of this year’s […]
Despite our successful effort to remove the funding from the Senate’s version of the budget, Rep. Kavanagh just hasn’t gotten the message. He has indicated that he might try to restore the $900,000 handout to GEO Group that the Senate pulled from the budget. The budget will […]