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Private Correctional Institutions

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2012

    ACLU, faith groups urge governors not to sell out to private prison giant

    A broad proposal by the country's largest private prison company to buy up and privatize state prisons has been met with a stiff rebuke from the American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of justice policy and religious groups, who are urging all fifty state governors to reject the company's "in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Thomas Wierdsma, private prison exec, accused of seeking to deport daughter-in-law

    T. Wierdsma.​A high-ranking official at one of the nation's largest private prison operators has been accused by his daughter-in-law of intimidation and harassment in a Boulder domestic dispute -- including threatening to initiate a federal inquiry into her legal status by Immigration and Cust ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Private prisons' blueprint for success: more lobbying, less security

    The use of private prisons by states and the federal government continues to increase, yielding billions in annual revenues for two dominant companies in the industry -- despite a lack of solid research that America's experiment with for-profit incarceration actually saves taxpayers money in the lon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Terrell Griswold: Mother questions inmate's "natural" death in private prison

    On October 28, 2010, a 26-year-old inmate named Terrell Griswold was found slumped over and unresponsive in his cell in the Bent County Correctional Facility, a private prison in southeastern Colorado. The official cause of death is listed as cardiac hypertrophy, or an enlarged heart. But Lagalia Af ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    Crowley prison riot: New details of unheeded warnings emerge in epic lawsuit

    After the riot, 2004. ​Seven years ago inmates at a private prison in southeastern Colorado went on an all-night rampage, chasing the shorthanded staff from the premises, attacking suspected snitches, setting fires and causing millions of dollars in damages. Now documents filed in a long-runni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Wells Fargo to be targeted by Denver protesters in week of actions "to restructure Wall Street"

    ​Update, below: Wells Fargo will be the target of several actions this week by the Colorado Progressive Coalition, including plans to "move in" to a branch on Thursday with lamps, pillows and coffee pots to protest the bank's high number of foreclosures. Dubbed the Mile High Showdown, the acti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Immigrant activist groups protest Wells Fargo and its investment in private prisons (PHOTOS)

    Jeanette Vizguerra.​Many people Wells Fargo claims to serve gathered to protest its investment in private prison companies such as GEO, Inc., which owns an Aurora detention center. Protesters marched on an East Colfax branch as part of a national day of action to educate people about the hypoc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Private prisons thrive on greed and bad policy, new report says

    ​Back in the lock-em-up frenzy of the 1990s, overcrowded state prison systems relied heavily on the emerging private prison industry to handle their excess inmates. Now that state prison populations are falling, you might expect the private sector to be taking a few hits, too -- but guess agai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Harley Lappin: Private prison industry woos another top public official

    ​There are two revolving doors in every prison system. One is for the inmates, many of whom fail on parole and keep coming back. The other is reserved for top administrators who, even amid scandal, move easily from high-powered positions of public trust to high-paid jobs in the private prison ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2008

    Swapping One McPrison for Another

    ​There are two revolving doors in every prison system. One is for the inmates, many of whom fail on parole and keep coming back. The other is reserved for top administrators who, even amid scandal, move easily from high-powered positions of public trust to high-paid jobs in the private prison ... More >>

  • News

    August 25, 2005

    "What You Deserve"

    A lawsuit claims brutal treatment of prisoners after last year's riot.

  • News

    January 13, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of January 13, 2005

  • News

    December 23, 2004

    Maxed Out

    Shipping inmates to private prisons is Colorado's cheap solution to overcrowding and violence. But so far, it's cost plenty.

  • News

    February 3, 2000

    Off Limits

    Prison nation...

  • News

    September 30, 1999

    McPrison

    How a private prison brought jobs-and violence, corruption and scandal-to Burlington.

  • News

    August 26, 1999

    Captive Market

    Jobs. Gadgets. Profits. Crime pays big-time for the prison-industrial complex.

  • News

    August 8, 1996

    This Jail for Hire

    Colorado's cheap solution to prison overcrowding has cost inmates plenty. It could cost the state millions.

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