So much gratitude to my sista Naima Penniman and Climbing PoeTree for participating in this project. This excerpt is part of a much longer piece that shine a bring spotlight on the painful impact of mass incarceration on poor people of color, and the influential role that the for-profit incarceration industry plays in policy-making. I love love artists who use their talents to shed light on injustice and inspire us toward change! Please support Climbing PoeTrees projects! Climbing PoeTree: climbingpoetree/live/ Outerspaces Tour: outer-spaces/ Join Naima and add your own video to tell CCA why 30 years of for-profit incarceration is nothing to celebrate. Heres how you can do it: 1. Take a 1-3 minute video of yourself expressing why its time to end for-profit incarceration. We encourage you to use the talking points for background, but to also personalize your story as much as you can. 2. Upload your video to YouTube (no other online video platform will work with our technology), and send us the link to your video. If you do not know how to upload videos to YouTube, contact Kymberlie Quong Charles for assistance. 3. Once we receive your YouTube video, we will post with other CCA 30th anniversary stories on the Public Safety and Justice Campaigns page on Nation Inside. 4. Post your video on your own social media sites using the hashtags #30Years2Many, #CCADirty30, or #No2PrivatePrisons, and encourage others to to do the same! Here are some draft talking points, but please speak from your organization or personal perspective: No one should profit from the incarceration and detention of human beings. Many faith traditions and civil rights organizations - including the Presbyterian Church USA, United Methodist Church, Southern Catholic Bishops, and the NAACP - have spoken out against for-profit incarceration. Corrections Corporation of America and the private prison industry have profited handsomely from the growing number of people in prison and detention. CCA spends millions of dollars every year in campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures in order to ensure that a steady stream of people enter privately-operated, profit-making prisons and immigrant detention centers. The criminal justice and immigration systems should be free of corporate influence and expressly intended to enhance public safety. Incarceration should not be turned over to the lowest bidder, but rather should be operated by accountable and transparent public institutions. The current system of mass immigration detention and incarceration benefits the private prison industry. An immigration reform that does not expand detention and incarceration would be good for immigrants and taxpayers, but bad for CCAs bottom-line. Motivated by profits rather than the public good, private prisons often slash wages and benefits to those employed in their facilities as well as to services to those incarcerated. There is nothing to celebrate about the 30th anniversary of the private prison industry. We call on state, local, and national governments to stop contracting with for-profit private prisons. Please use one or all of the hashtags #30Years2Many, #CCADirty30, and #No2PrivatePrisons when posting about CCAs 30th anniversary. The poor get locked up, the real thieves keep living... https://youtube/watch?v=LfFYjXLCZu8
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 20:44:06 +0000
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