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Episode 21 of deep dive$ explores the dark world of interconnected corporate profits that support the private prison industry, and asks a deeper question: do inmates deserve to be exploited like this?
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Chapters
0:00 Bad Luck
2:13 The 90’s R. Kelly of Incarceration
6:06 Yay…Racism
7:51 T. Don Hutto & CoreCivic
12:23 George Zoley & GEO Group
13:25 The Spoils of Labor
19:00 Work Is Work.
20:09 More Exploitation
22:06 How Politics Factor In
25:01 Prisoners Are People.
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Sources
1. Prison Policy | Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2024 https://shorturl.at/BvLZ3
2. The Pew Charitable Trusts | Racial Disparities Persist in Many U.S. Jails https://shorturl.at/WQ4lv
3. Mother Jones | Today It Locks Up Immigrants. But CoreCivic’s Roots Lie In the Brutal Past of America’s Prisons https://shorturl.at/neiv0
4. Mother Jones | Shockingly Candid Photos Of Life on a 1970s Arkansas Prison Farm https://shorturl.at/uBh85
5. CoreCivic | Remembering T. Don. Hutto https://shorturl.at/BED99
6. The Intercept | Private Prison Involved In Immigrant Detention Funds Trump https://tinyurl.com/yfujefcz
7. Pappas Post | A Greek Immigrant’s Company is Making Millions Off Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” Immigration Policy https://shorturl.at/NWAcO
8. Prison Policy | Shadow Budgets: How mass incarceration steals from the poor https://shorturl.at/1A0av
9. The Guardian | US prison workers produce $11bn worth of goods and services a year https://shorturl.at/pSrot
10. More Than Our Crimes | Whether Private or Public, Prisons Profit https://tinyurl.com/4f228pbe
11. NBC News | Biden’s order terminates federal private prison contracts | https://tinyurl.com/3cybmjhr
12. Prison Policy | How much do incarcerated people earn in each state? https://tinyurl.com/49prxxmw
13. Open Secrets | For-profit Prisons Recipients | https://tinyurl.com/36pyta7v
14. The New York Times | The 11 Criminals Granted Clemency by Trump | https://tinyurl.com/2n7usjs8
15. Follow The Money | Private Prisons: Principally Profit-Oriented and Politically Pliable | https://tinyurl.com/yz24jk45
16. Washington State Standard | Lobbying the Legislature from Behind Bars | https://tinyurl.com/ywm4duwb
17. CNBC | Private Prison Firm ramps up lobbying amid Trump immigration crackdown https://tinyurl.com/ycxx5wev
18. Statista | Private Prisons in the United States | https://tinyurl.com/yvn89f3t
19. Prison Policy Initiative | Following The Money of Mass Incarceration | https://shorturl.at/JWqbI
