Wash. Ind.: "Prison Industry Ties to Anti-Immigration Bills"

[alp227]

The private detention industry stands to gain substantially from a growing immigrant detention system, so it’s no accident that a lobbying group partially funded by Corrections Corporation of America, or CCA, which operates some of the country’s largest private detention facilities, has had a hand in crafting both Arizona’s harsh SB 1070 immigration law and, now, the copycat bills springing up across the country.

Full story and sources: http://washingtonindependent.com/97747/prison-industry-ties-to-anti-immigration-bills

[alstephenson]

1. Rachel Maddow did an excellent expose of the connections between CCA and...

Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona.

[Bobbieo]

2. The same group is against the legalization of pot - right!