\n \nIf you incarcerate more people and you put more people in This comes from the ACLU’s <\/p>\n \n Friedmann also said:<\/p>\n \nIf we want to reduce reliance on private prisons, \n \n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CCA inadvertently rehabilitated former prisoner Alex Friedmann and gave him a new career, lobbying against prison privatization. He says: In my view, the worst thing is that they have normalized the notion of incarcerating people for profit. Basically commodifying people, seeing them as nothing more than a revenue stream…. If you incarcerate more people and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,97,1113,14,15,70,19,72,3,178],"tags":[8747,3189,8817,1153,8705,8728,8701,8730,2695,7,3188,75,1297,218,2712,383,8749],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aclu","category-activism","category-cca","category-economy","category-education","category-ethics","category-history","category-incarceration","category-transparency","category-vlcia","tag-aclu","tag-alex-friedmann","tag-cca","tag-corruption","tag-education","tag-ethics","tag-georgia","tag-incarceration","tag-justice","tag-lowndes-county","tag-morality","tag-prison","tag-private-prison","tag-profit","tag-rehabilitation","tag-taxes","tag-vlcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n![](\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/files\/images\/prison\/alex_friedmann.jpg\")
<\/a>
\nIn my view, the worst thing
\nis that they have normalized the notion of incarcerating people for profit.
\nBasically commodifying people, seeing them
\nas nothing more than a revenue stream….<\/p>\n
\nyour private prisons you make more money.
\nWhich provides perverse incentives against reforming our justice system.
\n
\n![](\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5025\/5595760361_ee9580d60e_m.jpg\")
<\/a>
\nAnd increasing the number of people we’re putting in prison,
\nwhether they need to be there or not, just to generate corporate profit.
\nI think that’s incredibly immoral and unethical,
\nI think that’s the worst aspect of our private prison industry.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n
\nPrison Voices, Episode 1: Private Prisons<\/a>:<\/p>\n
\n![](\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/files\/imagecache\/news_image\/news_images\/bankingonbondage_web_page_01.jpg\")
<\/a>
\nThe ACLU’s National Prison Project has released
\n
\na report<\/a> about the
\nprivate prison industry. In
\n
\nthis podcast,<\/a>
\nwe’ll be hearing from an
\nexpert on private prisons, Alex Friedmann. A former prisoner who served
\n10 years in Tennessee prisons, Friedmann is now the associate editor for
\n
\nPrison Legal News<\/a>
\nand the President of the
\n
\nPrivate Corrections Institute,<\/a>
\na non-profit watchdog group that opposes for-profit prison.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nwe need to reduce our prison population.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n![](\"http:\/\/change-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/photos\/8\/oe\/vb\/YwOevBBwDsdQUBT-236x236-cropped.jpg\")
<\/a>
\nYou can help stop CCA right here at home.
\n
\nWe don’t need a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia.<\/a>
\nSpend those tax dollars on rehabilitation and education instead.
\nFollow
\n
\nthis link<\/a>
\nto petition the Industrial Authority to reject CCA’s private prison.<\/p>\n