Expiration Date

S1 Ep 7 - Follow the Money

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In this episode Michelle and David demonstrate how private prisons and the residual organizations are lucrative business models. The emphasis is not corrections or serving time, but how these companies maximize profits. The question is not is it legal but is it moral?  

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Sources from this episode:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/opinion/prison-food-farming-health.html

 
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/09/the-cop-who-quit-instead-of-helping-to-gentrify-atlanta/
 
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2020/07/05/lawyers-breonna-taylor-case-connected-gentrification-plan/5381352002/
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-took-more-stuff-from-people-than-burglars-did-last-year/
 
https://ij.org/press-release/new-report-finds-civil-forfeiture-rakes-in-billions-each-year-does-not-fight-crime-2/
 
 
https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/legal_aid_indigent_defendants/ls-sclaid-def-aba-privatizaton-report-final-june-2020.pdf
 
 
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2018/aug/4/prison-food-and-commissary-services-recipe-disaster/
 
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/14/593204274/alabama-sheriff-legally-took-750-000-meant-to-feed-inmates-bought-beach-house
 
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/money.html 
 
https://www.aclu.org/issues/smart-justice/mass-incarceration/private-prisons
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