Category: private prisons

Episode: Private Prisons: Commerce in Souls

Corruption and collusion are nothing new for private prisons, but back-room boosts from the Department of Homeland Security, are raising the stakes. SourceCode looks inside the private prison boom, and at the growing opposition to this state-administered slavery. In These Times reporter Silja Talvi talks with The Sentencing Project, and Grassroots Leadership shares their success story in Memphis. Plus, a multi-media community arts project where former inmates create moving images while they tell their stories.
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