February 1, 2012 by Bob Libal
Grassroots Leadership is proud to welcome Laura Price as our Women's Campaign Intern!
Laura Price is currently a junior at Davidson College majoring in Postcolonial Studies through the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. She spent the past four months studying Arabic and Political Science in Rabat, Morocco. After graduation, Laura hopes to pursue a career in law.
January 18, 2012 by Anonymous
Welcome to the Humpday Hall of Shame – every Wednesday we highlight the private prison industry’s influence on public policy through campaign contributions, lobbying, and the revolving door of public and private corrections.
What does almost $900,000 in political contributions buy in the Florida State legislature?
For private prison companies the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and The GEO Group, it may buy them the conversion of twenty-nine state correctional facilities to private prisons. Nearly 4,000 state employees and 16,000 inmates will be affected if SB7172 is passed.
Governor Scott’s inaugural fund received $25,000 from Florida-based The GEO Group and $5,000 from the Corrections Corporation of America. In 2010, The GEO Group and its staff made more than $700,000 in political contributions in the Sunshine State. CCA contributed $138,994. CCA and GEO are the world’s largest private incarceration corporations.
[node:read-more:link]January 4, 2012 by Bob Libal
With the political world buzzing with Iowa caucus results, we thought we'd explore which Republican presidential candidates had received campaign contributions from private prison corporations. See what we found after the jump, via data obtained at TransparancyData.com.
[node:read-more:link]December 28, 2011 by Anonymous
“To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are ending the year by asking for your support.
THE TIME IS NOW!
[node:read-more:link]December 21, 2011 by Bob Libal
This week's inductee is the United States Congress. Even as lawmakers have been unable to extend a payroll tax break for working Americans and unemployment insurance for those out of work, they have been able to provide a benefit for one group this holiday season - private prison corporations that benefit from the detention of immigrants.
December 14, 2011 by Bob Libal
The commission issued a unanimous recommendation opposed to a City Council request to rezone the Evergreens Senior Health Care property, a request by the Council that would have prevented industrial use and block the facility.
[node:read-more:link]December 7, 2011 by Bob Libal
Corrections Corporation of America has done their part to win Congresswoman Wasserman Shultz's support, donating $1,000 to her campaign in April of this year. Wasserman Schultz has received at least $7,250 in private prison donations since 1998, according to data accessed at TransparancyData.org and analyzed by Grassroots Leadership.
[node:read-more:link]December 5, 2011 by Bob Libal
Today, the New York Times called the immigration detention system "dangerously broken." More than 34,000 immigrants awake each day in the immigration detention system. The system relies heavily on for-profit corporations who own and/or operate prisons and county jails to detain migrants. According to the Times,"The paradigm is wrong. The system is dangerously broken." [node:read-more:link]
November 30, 2011 by Bob Libal
What’s the attraction? ALEC is a powerful group of corporate lobbyists, along with legislators, that draft legislation without oversight. Learn more about ALEC from an NPR report.
[node:read-more:link]November 23, 2011 by Bob Libal
According to a recent article in the Albuquerque Tribune:
Williams came under scrutiny from New Mexico legislators last year for his decision not to fine GEO and another private prison operator for understaffing. A report by the Legislative Finance Committee at the time said there were potentially millions of dollars to be collected. [node:read-more:link]
