Protesters arrested after protesting at private prison corporate headquarters - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/08/06/nashville-corecivic-private-prisons-headquarters-entrances-blocked-protesters/912735002/ Officers worked for hours Monday to unchain protesters as they occupied the property of a private prison company's corporate headquarters, shutting down Nashville-based CoreCivic's office building for the day. As of Monday afternoon, the Metro Nashville Police Department had arrested at least 19 of the few dozen protesters on trespassing charges, some of whom had locked themselves to cement-filled barrels to block parking garage entrances to the office. "We have no intention of leaving," said the Rev. Jeannie Alexander from No Exceptions Prison Collective. "It's a nonviolent, peaceful resistance." Alexander said protesters "do not recognize this as private property," claiming the protesters by their actions had appropriated the grounds for the people of Tennessee. Alexander was later arrested and carried away, being loaded into a police van by her hands and feet. One protester, a woman sitting atop a 20-foot tripod fashioned from wooden beams, was brought down by special operations officers after nine and a half hours and the use of the department's mobile ramp truck. CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America, is one of the nation's largest owners and operators of private prisons, operating roughly 65 facilities across 19 states, including the Metro Davidson County Detention Facility on Harding Place. The company contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and runs eight immigration detention centers, but has repeatedly declined to provide current copies of its contracts to operate these facilities. In a statement, CoreCivic said activists are distorting the private prison operator's role in immigration detention. "CoreCivic plays a valued but limited role in America’s immigration system, which we have done for every administration – Democrat and Republican – for more than 30 years," said company spokeswoman Amanda Gilchrist in an email Monday morning. "While we know this is a highly charged, emotional issue for many people, much of the information about our company being shared by special interest groups is wrong and politically motivated, resulting in some people reaching misguided conclusions about what we do." Earlier this year, CoreCivic released a statement saying the company does not house children who are separated from a parent. Tennessee pays the company hundreds of millions of dollars to operate four state prisons and several county detention facilities. State lawmakers have criticized the company for its operations in the past, while state prison officials have vowed closer scrutiny of private prison operations.

Privately owned prisons. What a world.

private prisons should be disbanded

Thats how its been in the US for awhile

If you live in those states, your tax money goes to the wealthy private prison owners and their lobbyists as they're paid by the state for how many prisoners they have. For maximum profitability keep the war on drugs going, get as many people in jail with the cheapest accommodations possible, and maximize recidivism rates. Keeping people working against their will in prisons was specifically allowed in the 13th Amendment as well, for even more money. On top of all that being a felon disenfranchises you in some states as well, so you literally can not try to change it with your vote if you're an ex-convict.

private prisons are legalized slavery

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/US_Incarceration_Rate_per_100%2C000_Inhabitants_by_State.png Not much changed. (note Louisana overhauled their criminal law and Oklahoma's number one now I believe)