Editorial Cartoons
Editorial Cartoons
TD Original
Discipline and Profit: The Origins of the Private Prison
Jul 19, 2024 A Harvard historian explores the roots of the for-profit carceral state through the tragic tale of a 19th-century African American teenager.
Prison Reform
Prison Labor Is Slave Labor and the Constitution Says That’s Fine
Sep 3, 2023 Incarcerated people work for cents on the dollar or for free to make goods you use.
California to End its Use of Private, For-Profit Prisons
Oct 11, 2019 Immigrant advocates say the bill will put an end to almost all immigration detention in the state in the next few years.
Private Prisons Expect Surging Profits During the Trump Administration
Nov 23, 2016 People invested in the prison industry are set to get even richer off the mass incarceration of minority and low-income people when Donald Trump and the tough-on-crime nominee for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, take control of the federal justice system.
Justice Department Says It Will Stop Using Privately Operated Prisons
Aug 18, 2016 Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates (pictured) says officials concluded such facilities are less safe and effective than those run by the U.S. government.
Obama Administration Gave Nation’s Largest Private Prison Company a No-Bid, $1 Billion Contract
Aug 15, 2016 The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency skipped the standard public process of bidding and offered the Corrections Corporation of America a generous deal to build a massive detention facility for women and children seeking asylum.
Private-Prison Executive Predicts More Profits, Downplays Criminal Justice Reform
Dec 23, 2015 A senior executive with the second-largest for-profit prison company in America told investment bankers last summer that, talk of drug policy and criminal justice reform notwithstanding, the United States will continue to “attract crime,” generating new “correctional needs.”
