cont'd

* APF one of U.S.’ highest-revenue police foundations
* supports projects that supplement Atlanta Police Department’s $250 million budget
* watchdog organization Private Equity Stakeholder Project investigates ties betw. private equity & APF
* argue that private equity influence is at heart of planned forest conversion (Cop City)

#libertarianism #MilitarizedPolice #PoliceAccountability #DefundPolice #WealthTax #APF #PESP #CopCity #StopCopCity #Atlanta #PoliceState #neofascism

cont'd 2/

* private equity companies provide DeKalb County Jail, Fulton County Jail, & Atlanta City Detention Center w. commissary, communications, medical services
* profit f. detention of protesters
* other corporations profit f. increased police surveillance
* 2016+ Atlanta paid APF $3.6 million to acquire SWAT equipment, license plate readers, thousands of surveillance cameras for its biggest program, Operation Shield

#MilitarizedPolice #DefundPolice #APF #CopCity #StopCopCity #neofascism

cont'd 3/

Private equity Profits f. Destroying Atlanta Forest
Connections to Cop City & Blackhall Studios
https://pestakeholder.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/PE-Profits-from-Destroying-the-Atlanta-Forest_March_2023.pdf

Previous thread

Cop City: Atlanta City Council OKs $67M for Facility Despite Mass Protests & Armed Raid on Bail Fund
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110498034813139445
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/6/cop_city_atlanta_vote_bail_fund
https://web.archive.org/web/20230609031916/https://newrepublic.com/post/173275/atlanta-council-approves-cop-city-funding-despite-opposition

#MilitarizedPolice #DefundPolice #APF #CopCity #StopCopCity #neofascism #corporations #PrivateEquity #PrisonIndustrialComplex #GOP #Atlanta #RightToProtest #HumanRights

Addendum 1

A Billionaire Conserving Montana Is Funding the Group Bulldozing the Atlanta Forest
Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank is helping fund the forces behind Cop City
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110471619577888008
https://inthesetimes.com/article/arthur-blank-cop-city

#HomeDepot #ArthurBlank #DefundBillionaires #MilitarizedPolice #DefundPolice #APF #CopCity #StopCopCity #neofascism #PrivateEquity #PrisonIndustrialComplex #GOP #Atlanta #RightToProtest #HumanRights #PrivateEquity #corporations #DefundCorporations

Addendum 2

Parole Didn’t Integrate Me Into Society. It Kept Me Out of It
Parole supervision destabilized my life, kept me homeless
https://truthout.org/articles/parole-didnt-integrate-me-into-society-it-kept-me-out-of-it

" ... much easier to obtain/sustain basic adult necessities req'd to be tax paying, positively contributing member of polite society as fugitive f. justice than as compliant ward of Dept. Corrections. ..."

#prisons #incarceration #parole #PrisonersRights #HumanRights #PrisonIndustrialComplex #corporations #DefundCorporations #PrivateEquity

Addendum 3

CON JOB: Inside privatized prison industry
https://inthepublicinterest.org/con-job/#highlight3

* national advocacy group Families Against Mandatory Minimums called for federal investigation into Trousdale Turner prison, operated by private for-profit corporation CoreCivic

#prisons #incarceration #parole #FAMM #PrisonersRights #HumanRights #CoreCivic #PrisonIndustrialComplex #corporations #DefundCorporations #PrivateEquity

Addendum 3 cont'd 2/

FAMM: “Tennessee fined CoreCivic, wh. operates Trousdale Turner, 3 other prisons, $20 million for maintaining substandard conditions in their facilities. Despite these fines TN continues to renew & extend CoreCivic’s contracts"

Families Against Mandatory Minimums: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Families_Against_Mandatory_Minimums
CoreCivic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoreCivic

"Families Against Mandatory Minimums"
CoreCivic
"Prison Industrial Complex"

#FAMM #CoreCivic #PrisonIndustrialComplex #corporations #DefundCorporations

Addendum 4

Utah private prison company returns $5M to Mississippi after understaffing found at facility
Investigations continue into 2 other Mississippi prisons operated by Management & Training Corporation
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2023/09/18/utah-private-prison-company/

https://persagen.com >> search: ALEC AND "Management & Training Corporation"
"American Legislative Exchange Council"

#Utah #Mississippi #prisons #PrisonIndustrialComplex #corporations #DefundCorporations #ALEC #PrisonersRights #neoliberalism

Private Prison Stocks Soar; Immigrant Rights Activists Vow to Fight Trump Mass Deportations
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/12/silky_shah_mass_deportations_under_trump

* Trump vows to deport millions undoc. immigrants
* private prison stocks soaring
* Trump1: border wall
* Trump2: mass deportations
* Immigrant rights advocates preparing for Trump2’s threats of mass deportation
* private prison companies take more & more of immigration detention

#PrisonIndustrialComplex #PrivatePrisons #Trump2 #fascism #libertarianism #corporation #xenophobia

ICE Isolates Me From Community So Corporations Can Profit From My Imprisonment
https://truthout.org/articles/ice-isolates-me-from-community-so-corporations-can-profit-from-my-imprisonment

* Why am I being incarcerated again when all I want is to turn my life around?
* mass incarceration embedded in American culture
* immigrant detention simply an extension of the prison system

#Project2025 #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #DHS #ICE #xenophobia #PoliceState
#corporations #libertarianism #PrisonIndustrialComplex
#billionaires #oligarchy #WealthTax

U.S. Prisoners part of hidden workforce linked to 100s popular food brands
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e

* fmr Southern slave plantation
* now U.S.’ largest maximum-security prison
* unmarked trucks packed w. prison-raised cattle roll out of Louisiana State Penitentiary
* men sentenced to hard labor, forced to work for pennies/hr, sometimes nothing at all

#corporations #libertarianism #PrisonIndustrialComplex #USconstitution #LegalSlavery
#billionaires #oligarchy #meritocracy #WealthTax