For Immediate Release
Contact: Megan Lubin, 253-906-5608
May 3, 2011
** Press Conference Call TOMORROW, May 4th at 1:00pm EST**
**Call-in: 800-894-5910; Passcode: PRISON**
REPORT: “Making A Killing”
A new report exposes how the private prison industry thrives in a pay-to-play culture; making our communities less safe and more prone to violent crime
WASHINGTON — This Wednesday, May 4, 2011, as correctional officers from around the country arrive in Washington for National Correctional Officers week, corrections leaders Ken Kopczynski and Glen Middleton will join Marty Hathaway, a corrections officer from Iowa, for a press conference call to release a new report on the corporate campaign to privatize America’s prisons.
Each election cycle, America’s largest private prison companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into the campaigns of governors, state legislators, and judges, in the hopes of advancing their political agenda—establishing more private prisons and reducing the number of public ones. The report, “Making A Killing: How Prison Corporations Are Profiting From Campaign Contributions and Putting Taxpayers at Risk”—tracks the flow of money from the companies to the people in power, and details some of the worst cases of violence and death in the nation’s least safe facilities.
“Making A Killing” will be released at 1pm EST tomorrow by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
WHAT: Press Conference Call to release a new report, “Making A Killing: How Prison Corporations Are Profiting From Campaign Contributions and Putting Taxpayers at Risk”
WHO: Ken Kopczynski, Executive Director of Private Corrections Working Group
Glen Middleton, Chair, AFSCME Corrections United
Marty Hathaway, Correctional Officer at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center in Coralville
WHEN: Wednesday, May 4th, 2011, at 1 PM EST
HOW: Call-in: 800-894-5910, Passcode: PRISON.
Please RSVP to Megan Lubin at megan@newpartners.com
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