privatization

Josie Duffy Rice and guest co-host Donovan Ramsey talk with Bianca Tylek, executive director of Worth Rises, about the privatization of America’s criminal legal system.

Spotlights like this one provide original commentary and analysis on pressing criminal justice issues of the day. You can read them each day in our newsletter, The Daily Appeal. Yesterday, criminal justice advocates protested the Harris County district attorney’s office for using pro bono law firm attorneys to help prosecute misdemeanor cases in the Justice of […]

A company in Cleveland County exemplifies how for-profit legal services affect poor and vulnerable individuals.

Beginning next week, people locked up in San Francisco will be able to call their loved ones for free. Last year, people in the city’s jails spent $1.7 million on phone calls and commissary, of which half a million went to GTL, a major corrections telecommunication company. For Mayor London Breed, who introduced the provision in the San Francisco […]

Lexipol, a private for-profit company, has quietly become one of the most powerful voices in law enforcement policymaking in the country.

San Francisco just became the first city in the nation to stop charging court fines and fees, but the rest of the state has a long way to go.

With privatization of the state’s prisons in full swing, this year is on track to be its deadliest on record.