Author: FAC Contributor #1

A captive market, no competition and government contracts that make monopoly-enabled price gouging the industry standard — it’s never been in doubt that the prison phone business is a very profitable model. A presentation that the privately-held prison telecom company Securus made to investors that The Huffington Post obtained shows just how much money there is to be made as

Last month the state of Washington contracted with the GEO Group, one of the largest for-profit prison companies in the U.S., to move up to 1,000 inmates from the state’s overcrowded prisons to its correctional facility in Michigan, thousands of miles from their homes and families. This makes family visits and connection with the community harder, though studies show that inmates

Over the past few weeks we’ve posted about the exploding prison population in the United States and how many of the criminal justice measures are not only ineffective but completely contrary to empirical studies on effective management techniques. This spills over to “sex offender” management schemes, which have become the extreme example of counterproductive measures which dangerously make our population

ELKHART — The requirement that 19-year-old Zach Anderson register as a sex offender as part of his conviction for involvement with an underage girl isn’t just a concern for him and his parents, Les and Amanda Anderson. It’s part of a larger movement against what some critics see as indiscriminate and unfair placement of certain offenders on such registries. Vicky Henry,

6/9/15 — ARCADIA, FLa. — There’s only one place in the entire country where violent sexual predators are committed indefinitely that is run by a for-profit company. It’s in Arcadia, Florida – on the outskirts of town, past historic buildings and rows of antique stores that tourists often visit. Despite receiving a state award for cost effectiveness, some national civil

We warned that it could happen. If authorities are allowed to probe into the lives of sex offenders without restriction under the theory that it’s being done “to protect the children”, the scope would soon be broadened to allow the microscope to be shoved into the asses of non-registrants too. Case in point; Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd (“King of