We believe that no one should profit from the incarceration of human beings.
We work with communities across the country to abolish for-profit prisons, jails, and detention centers. We strive to reduce criminalization and incarceration.
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For more than 30 years, Grassroots Leadership has organized people to fight injustice. We train and support activists, organizations, and communities in defining and accomplishing their goals.
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Privatization erodes public control and oversight. Nowhere is privatization more insidious than in the corporate takeover of our criminal justice system. For-profit corporations own and run hundreds of prisons, jails, and detention centers in this country. For these companies, every prisoner is a profit center, every crime a business opportunity, and rehabilitation is bad for business.