Week 12- Post 1
Source: 13th documentary on Netflix https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/incomejails.html ALEC (american legislative exchange council) proposed many laws like mandatory minimum sentencing of 85% of their sentence, 3 strikes and you are out these laws generated the profit that would go to the shareholders they pushed forward policies that increased prison sentences and the number of people in prison through ALEC, CCA (corrections corporation of america) became the leader in private prisons the number of people in prisons today they are a multibillion-dollar business that gets rich off punishment so through alec they had a hand in shaping crime policy across the country, which was not just prison privatization but the rapid increase in criminalization cca directly benefited/profited from its investment in ALEC many people were harmed by their policies CCA was on the taskforce in ALEC that passed the law SB 1070 whihc gave police the right to arrrest anyone that looked like an...