27-01-2021, 17:54
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
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Originally Posted by nomadking
Didn't realise the re-offending rates for public run prisons were so low. 
It's the public run courts that send them there. |
https://www.rochester.edu/endowment/...-3.18.2020.pdf
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Private prison companies have a vested interest in high incarceration rates. A 2010 CCA Annual Report states that, “the demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by the relaxation of enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices or through the decriminalization of certain activities that are currently proscribed by our criminal laws. . .
[R]eductions in crime rates or resources dedicated to prevent and enforce crime could lead to reductions in arrests, convictions and sentences requiring incarceration at correctional facilities.”50 Both CoreCivic and GEO Group have spent millions of dollars lobbying at the state and federal levels for policies that increase incarceration and against those that would limit it.
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Likewise, the GEO Group lobbied Congress regarding legislation affecting their business interests such as the Corrections Act, Recidivism Risk Reduction Act, Border Security Act, and Immigration Modernization Act.53 Further, both GEO Group and CoreCivic benefitted from active partnerships with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an organization that hosts conferences and writes model bills, which are then introduced in state capitols by ALEC members (one-quarter of state legislators are members). GEO Group and CoreCivic were long-time members, and CoreCivic (then CCA) Vice President John Rees served concurrently as ALEC criminal justice task force co-chair until 2000. In 1995, twenty-five states enacted “truth-in-sentencing” laws based on ALEC model legislation requiring prisoners to serve 85 percent of their sentences in prison. Eleven states enacted ALEC model “three-strikes” laws.54 The effect of these laws is to increase the duration of time served, by limiting the discretion of parole boards and courts to judge that less time served is more just and consistent with the public interest
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