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. […]
AFSC Arizona is proud to announce a critical follow-up report to Buried Alive (2007) and Lifetime Lockdown (2012) on solitary confinement in Arizona prisons, highlighting the voices of maximum-security prisoners and cataloguing their testimonies describing those experiences. This report, Still Buried Alive: Arizona Prisoner Testimonies on Isolation in […]
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 […]
Given the Arizona’s out-of-control prison spending and the influence of the for-profit incarceration industry in Arizona politics, it is critical for voters and taxpayers to know of the candidates’ ties to this industry, as well as their views on criminal justice policy in general. Consider the following: • Arizona […]
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. […]