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• Feb 01 Florida Prisons Bill Would Expand Private Management, Netting A Big Win For Political Contributors Chris Kirkham, Huffington Post State could hand over a major slice of its prison system to private, for-profit businesses.
• Jul 08 Statement of AFSCME Pres. McEntee on the June Jobs Report Press Release
• Jul 07 “A Healthy Economy Is the Best Deficit Reduction Strategy” Press Release Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on debt ceiling negotiations
• Jun 24 Report: Private Prisons Love Mass Incarceration, And Want Politicians To Love It Too Ryan J. Reilly, Talking Points Memo Major private prison companies have an incentive to encourage policies which increase populations.
• Jun 06 Gov. Jindal's plan to sell state prisons is killed by House committee Jan Moller, Times-Picayune Louisiana House deals governor a tough loss on a top priority for his administration.
• Jun 03 Ordinary workers took extraordinary stand, made history Hilda L. Solis, Secretary of Labor, Memphis Commercial Appeal Memphis sanitation strike an important turning point in the fight for civil rights, workplace equality
• May 31 Private prisons see opposition Jessica Cuffman, Marion Star A proposal to privatize six prisons in Ohio faces opposition from a coalition of non-profit groups.
• May 19 Private Prisons Found to Offer Little in Savings Richard A. Oppel Jr., New York Times Data from Arizona suggests privately operated prisons can cost more to operate than state-run prisons.
• May 04 Report: “Making A Killing” Press Release 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
• May 02 “We Are Proud of the Work that Our Corrections Employees Do” Press Release Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on National Correctional Employees Week
• Apr 28 Workers Memorial Day Press Release Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on Workers Memorial Day
• Apr 15 ACLU warns against plan to sell state prisons Alan Johnson, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Privatizing Ohio prisons won't save money, will undermine sentencing reform and will post a security risk.
• Apr 12 Countering the Siege New York Times AFSCME President McEntee on how attacks on public service workers have energized union members and our allies in a growing battle over workers’ rights.
• Apr 03 Editorial: Dump the prison privatization plan Miami Herald Florida Senate proposal would cause massive disruption
• Mar 29 Florida lawmakers look to privatize prisons Marc Caputo, Miami Herald The Florida Senate quietly slipped language into budget proposal that seeks to give corporations the chance to run correctional facilities and probation services in 18 counties.
• Mar 27 Plan for prisons: ODRC talks concerns, statistics on privatizing facilities John Jarvis, Marion Star As Ohio Gov. John Kasich's proposal to sell five prisons proceeds, including two in Marion to private operators, concerns about safety, budgets and job security have arisen.
• Mar 25 Lawmakers Continue Push To Sell Prison, Despite Overcrowding Ryan Kruger, WSIL-TV AFSCME urges Illinois lawmakers to ease overcrowding by opening the Thomson Correctional Center rather than selling it to the federal government.