Prison Industry Divestment Program
Anti immigrant laws, like Arizona’s SB 1070, are not only a consequence of racism but also of the greed for money. It is a huge business to criminalize and incarcerate our communities because the federal government pays private prison companies a average of $122 per day per person in prison.
Private Prison Companies like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group have influenced politicians to pass laws that criminalize communities of color to increase the prison population for more profit. – more –
RWG Report on Racial Profiling
Rights Working Group has completed a draft report for the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process on the persistence of profiling based on race, ethnicity, religion and national origin. You have likely seen much of the substance of this document in the report we jointly sent (with the ACLU) to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination last summer. The UPR report is a condensed version (only 10 pages) of last summer’s report with some updates and it provides another opportunity to raise the issues of concern. – more –
