Prison Privatization

Caroline Isaacs

Caroline Isaacs

The 3 companies that run for-profit prisons in Arizona have all submitted bids to take over New Hampshire's prison system.  One of them has revealed it has its eyes on land in Lancaster and Northumberland as potential sites for a new prison. Caroline Isaacs, who directs the AFSC's Arizona Program in Tucson, has thoroughly investigated the performance of these 3 companies and found it lacking.  Her report, published in Feburary, revealed widespread and

Caroline Isaacs

Caroline Isaac, AFSC's office in Tucson Arizona, program director.

The 3 companies that run for-profit prisons in Arizona have all submitted bids to take over New Hampshire's prison system.  Caroline Isaacs, who directs the AFSC's Arizona Program in Tucson, has thoroughly investigated their performance and found it lacking.  Her report, published in Feburary, revealed widespread and persistent problems in the areas of safety, accountability, and cost.  She will share her findings during a 3-day speaking tour in New Hampshire.   Spon

Caroline Isaacs

Caroline Isaacs

The 3 companies that run for-profit prisons in Arizona have all submitted bids to take over New Hampshire's prison system.  Caroline Isaacs, who directs the AFSC's Arizona Program in Tucson, has thoroughly investigated their performance and found it lacking.  Her report, published in Feburary, revealed widespread and persistent problems in the areas of safety, accountability, and cost.  She will share her findings during a 3-day speaking tour in New Hampshire.&

Caroline Isaacs

Caroline Isaacs

The 3 companies that run for-profit prisons in Arizona have all submitted bids to take over New Hampshire's prison system.  Caroline Isaacs, who directs the AFSC's Arizona Program in Tucson, has thoroughly investigated their performance and found it lacking.  Her report, published in Feburary, revealed widespread and persistent problems in the areas of safety, accountability, and cost.  She will share her findings during a 3-day speaking tour in New Hampshire.&

More prisons

PHOENIX  - A Quaker group will release an extensive report on the safety, quality, and cost of private prisons in Arizona. – including six prisons run by Corrections Corp. of America that do not contract with the state. The state is currently soliciting bids for construction and management of 2,000 new prison beds to private operators, a move that would cost state taxpayers millions of dollars each year, with little public safety return on the investment.

Management and Training Corporation (MTC) has proposed a prison of 3,000 or 5,000 beds.

The American Friends Service Committee condemns the decision to build more private prisons as unnecessary and deeply irresponsible given the state’s economic crisis and the dismal safety records of all four of the corporations involved.