The Business of Incarceration: Severing the Prison to Profits Pipeline
March 17, 2016
“Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.” – Horace Mann, “Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” 1881 Marc Morial – President & CEO, National Urban League No nation holds as many people behind bars as the United States of America, and the numbers tell it all. The United States imprisons 716 people for every 100,000 residents. That is more than any other country on this planet. Our nation has the largest prison population in the