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a Private Jail, Prison or Detention Center? Lax Oversite Plagues Privates Prison in Texas, "Watch Your Assets" Co-published with Texans for Public Justice, February 6, 2008. GROUND ZERO: The Laredo Superjail and the No Action Alternative, Nicholas Hudson, July 2006 Considering a Private Jail, Prison or Detention Center? A Resource Packet for Public Officials Co-published with South Texans Opposing Private Prisons (STOPP). Not Here, Not Anywhere: The Private Prison Problem (DVD). Narrated by Danny Glover, produced by Tonyia Rawles and Natalie Bullock Brown, 2005 Prescription for Disaster: Commecializing Prison Health Care in South Carolina, Marguerite G. Rosenthal, Ph.D. A Grassroots Leadership South Carolina Fair Share Special Report, 2004 Prescription for Recovery: Keeping South Carolina‘s Prison Health Care Public and Making It Better, Marguerite G. Rosenthal, Ph.D. A Grassroots Leadership South Carolina Fair Share Special Report, 2004 Correction Corporation of America: A Critical Look at its First Twenty Years. By Philip Mattera and Mafruza Khan, Corporate Research Project of Good Jobs First, and Stephen Nathan, Prison Privatisation Report International.December, 2003 Borrowing Against the Future: The Impact of Prison Expansion on Arizona Families, Schools and Communities. By Kevin Pranis. Co-published with the Arizona Advocacy Network, April 2003 Education
v. Incarceration: A Mississippi Case Study Progress or Profit? Positive Alternatives to Privatization in Shelby County, TN - Proposes a set of solutions that will help the county cut spending and reduce its jail population while continuing to protect public safety. By Dana Kaplan, Center for Constitutional Rights, and Bob Libal, Grassroots Leadership. Co-published with Coalition Against Private Prisons (CAPP), 2006. Protecting the Future: Moderating West Virginia's Budget Crisis, Co-published with the West Virginia Council of Churches and the Appalachian Institute at Wheeling Jesuit University, 2005. Ujamaa: Building African American Philanthropists and Fundraisers - Author Pam Pompey, Ujamaa Coordinator and the Ujamaa Project Team, created a handbook showing how to achieve diversity in philanthropy and fundraising.
Locking Up Family Values: The Detention of Immigrant Families, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services, February 2007. (pdf) Resolution Calling for the Abolition of For-Profit Private Prisons, Presbyterian Church (USA), 2003 (pdf)
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Now with Special Privatization has been on the right-wing agenda for years, but now it has the power of the Bush administration behind it. Health care, schools, Social Security, public lands, the military, prisons--all are considered fair game. But does privatization really serve the public good? Or is it a payoff to powerful corporations intent on replacing the government with a 'private profit culture,' in which there is no meaningful public accountability and the bottom line rules all? In this powerful book, legendary activist Si Kahn and public philosopher Elizabeth Minnich argue that privatization is a threat whose seriousness few appreciate. Kahn and Minnich expose the damage privatization has done in several specific areas of society, as well as to society as a whole. They argue that corporations are, by their very nature, unable to effectively fulfill what have traditionally been the responsibilities of government. Some things that are worth doing simply can't, indeed shouldn't, be done purely for profit. Unless there is a balance between the public and private sectors, vulnerable populations will be chronically underserved and critical public functions will be under-funded to the point of virtual elimination. |
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