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Fighting the Corporate Prison Industry: Citizens of One Illinois Town Fight CCA Immigration Detention Facility

Siddhartha Mahanta, American Independent News Network. May 18, 2012.

Will CCA seal a deal to build a civil detention facility in Crete, Ill., before the legislature votes to bar it?

8 Things You Need to Know About America's Private Prison Industry

Russ Baker, WhoWhatWhy.com. May 4, 2012.

America’s system of detaining and monitoring "criminals" impacts more people than ever before.

Private Prison Corporations Are Modern Day Slave Traders

Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report. April 29, 2012.

The Corrections Corporation of America believes the economic crisis has created an opportunity to become landlord, as well as manager, of a chunk of the American prison gulag.

The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System

Rania Khalek, AlterNet. November 29, 2011.

The private prison system has rebounded, growing dramatically, and making big bucks with huge help from the Feds, as large numbers of immigrants are incarcerated.

Report: More Than 90 People Have Died in U.S. Immigrant Prisons

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 3, 2009.

Thirty-two of the deaths occurred at jails run by private companies, including 18 belonging to the notorious Corrections Corporation of America.

Despite a Crashing Economy, Private Prison Firm Turns a Handsome Profit

Erin Rosa, CorpWatch. March 4, 2009.

The GEO Group Inc., a private prison firm paid millions by the government to detain undocumented immigrants, is doing just fine.

Women Behind Bars Are Deprived of Their Basic Rights

Silja J.A. Talvi, Santa Fe Reporter. December 10, 2008.

For incarcerated women, there is little justice to be found.

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