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From: Heidi Hess, CREDO Action [mailto:act@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 1:30 PM
To: Miriam Vieni
Subject: Signature needed: Ban private for-profit prisons
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Tell Congress:
"Fight back against America's incarceration industry by passing the Justice
Is Not For Sale Act, which would ban private, for-profit prisons."
Add your name:
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Dear Miriam,
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Sen. Bernie Sanders just introduced a bill to end one of the biggest
contributors to America's broken criminal justice system: private,
corporate-run, for-profit prisons.1
Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and poor
people and people of color suffer the most at the hands of our
out-of-control incarceration industry.2 That's partly because the
corporations that operate for-profit prisons are primarily concerned with
their bottom lines. To maximize profits, those corporations advocate for
increased incarcerations and unreasonably strict parole and release laws.
And they win.
Corporations should not be able to profit from mass incarceration. The
Justice Is Not For Sale Act, introduced by Sen. Sanders and Rep. Raul
Grijalva, bars federal, state, and local governments from contracting with
private prisons. We need to come out in strong support of this bill.
Tell
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gl> Congress: Ban private for-profit prisons. Click here to sign the
petition.
Out of the 1.6 million people incarcerated in 2013, over 8 percent of them
were in private prisons. Reports show that inmates in these facilities
suffer worse conditions, including more assaults and higher recidivism.3, 4
For-profit prisons are also incentivized to advocate for laws that reduce
basic rights, benefits, and entitlements inmates receive while in prison.
And when for-profit prison corporations lobby for harsh laws that lead to
more incarcerations, incarceration rates rise throughout the entire U.S.
correctional system, leaving taxpayers to foot the bill for maintaining the
highest incarceration rate in the world.
In addition to banning private prisons, the Justice Is Not For Sale Act
would enact a number of other measures to address mass incarceration. One
would eliminate the mandatory bed quotas that require U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hold an average of 34,000 individuals in
detention on a daily basis. Another would restore the federal parole system.
The abolition of the federal parole system was a major factor in the
explosion of the federal prison population since 1980, and makes it
impossible for federal prisoners to access parole boards that can look
individually at their sentences.
Sign the petition now and tell Congress to get behind a bill that provides
real solutions to America's mass incarceration crisis.
Tell Congress: Ban private for-profit prisons. Click the link below to sign
the petition:
https://act.credoaction.com/sign/private_prisons?t=6
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Thank you for your activism.
Heidi Hess, Campaign Manager
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Action from Working Assets
Add your name:
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1.
John Wagner, "Sanders
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/9854?t=9&akid=15836.967351.Zoa6gl> to push a
plan to ban private companies from running prisons," The Washington Post,
September 17, 2015.
2.
"U.S. <http://act.credoaction.com/go/9855?t=10&akid=15836.967351.Zoa6gl>
Has World's Highest Incarceration Rate," Population Reference Bureau, August
2012.
3.
"Emerging
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/9867?t=11&akid=15836.967351.Zoa6gl> Issues on
Privatized Justice," U.S. Department of Justice, February 2001.
4. "The
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/9866?t=12&akid=15836.967351.Zoa6gl> effects
of private prison confinement in Minnesota on offender recidivism,"
Minnesota Department of Corrections, March 2013.
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