Citizen dialog for transparent process by the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange
ACLU podcast against private prisons —Alex Friedmann
CCA inadvertently rehabilitated former prisoner Alex Friedmann
and gave him a new career, lobbying against prison privatization.
He says:
In my view, the worst thing
is that they have normalized the notion of incarcerating people for profit.
Basically commodifying people, seeing them
as nothing more than a revenue stream….
If you incarcerate more people and you put more people in
your private prisons you make more money.
Which provides perverse incentives against reforming our justice system.
And increasing the number of people we’re putting in prison,
whether they need to be there or not, just to generate corporate profit.
I think that’s incredibly immoral and unethical,
I think that’s the worst aspect of our private prison industry.
The ACLU’s National Prison Project has released
a report about the
private prison industry. In
this podcast,
we’ll be hearing from an
expert on private prisons, Alex Friedmann. A former prisoner who served
10 years in Tennessee prisons, Friedmann is now the associate editor for
Prison Legal News
and the President of the
Private Corrections Institute,
a non-profit watchdog group that opposes for-profit prison.
Friedmann also said:
If we want to reduce reliance on private prisons,
we need to reduce our prison population.
In my view, the worst thing is that they have normalized the notion of incarcerating people for profit. Basically commodifying people, seeing them as nothing more than a revenue stream….
And increasing the number of people we’re putting in prison, whether they need to be there or not, just to generate corporate profit. I think that’s incredibly immoral and unethical, I think that’s the worst aspect of our private prison industry.
The ACLU’s National Prison Project has released a report about the private prison industry. In this podcast, we’ll be hearing from an expert on private prisons, Alex Friedmann. A former prisoner who served 10 years in Tennessee prisons, Friedmann is now the associate editor for Prison Legal News and the President of the Private Corrections Institute, a non-profit watchdog group that opposes for-profit prison.
You can help stop CCA right here at home.
We don’t need a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia.
Spend those tax dollars on rehabilitation and education instead.
Follow
this link
to petition the Industrial Authority to reject CCA’s private prison.