S1 Ep 7 - Follow the Money

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