Tagged: private prisons

Police accountability and private prisons

The Milwaukee officer who fatally shot 23-year-old Sylville Smith last weekend has been identified as a fellow African-American who lived in the community and attended high school with the man he killed. FSRN’s Jacob...

U.S. to phase out for-profit federal prisons

The U.S. Justice Department is taking concerted steps toward ending the federal government’s contracts with private prison operators. FSRN’s Nell Abram reports. Download Audio As federal contracts with private prison companies come up for...

FSRN Weekly Edition – February 27, 2015

FCC approves measure to categorize internet service as a public utility DHS budget becomes the latest partisan funding impasse on Capitol Hill Prisoner transfers continue after weekend uprising in Texas “tent city” facility Wisconsin...