The prison industrial complex disproportionately impacts Black communities in Houston, Texas, with Black residents making up 19% of the population but 45% of the incarcerated population, and private prisons profiting from high rates of incarceration.
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Repeat offense: private prisons resurrection represents pay-to-play
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist, The House of the Dead, 1862 Twenty-four hours after the election of Donald Trump as this nation’s 45th president, the stock prices of privately run prisons in this country soared. And this reversal of fortune came […]