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Strength to Love: A Challenge to the Privatized Prison Industry By Marion Wright Edelman- DC group challenges CCA at Board Meeting

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Strength to Love: A Challenge to the Privatized Prison Industry By Marion Wright Edelman December 13, 2010 A few months ago a group of earnest and determined stockholders traveled together by bus from Washington, DC to Nashville, Tennessee to attend a shareholders' meeting. On the surface, it sounded like a fairly ordinary trip, but this was an unusual group on an extraordinary mission. The shareholders' meeting was for the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the largest private prison company in the country; and the group of shareholders included ex-offenders who now each hold one share of stock in CCA to get an ownership stake in some of the same prisons that once held them captive. They attended the meeting in hopes of sharing their perspective on how the privatized prison industry can better serve society by rehabilitating inmates rather than just serving its own profits by perpetuating the prison cycle...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 14, 2010 (boomark / email).