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(60,364 posts) Thu Nov 29, 2012, 08:46 AM Nov 2012

Corrections Corporation of America Used in Drug Sweeps of Public School Students

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12993-corrections-corporation-of-america-used-in-drug-sweeps-of-public-school-students

Corrections Corporation of America Used in Drug Sweeps of Public School Students
Tuesday, 27 November 2012 13:35
By Beau Hodai, PRWatch | Report

In Arizona an unsettling trend appears to be underway: the use of private prison employees in law enforcement operations.

The state has graced national headlines in recent years as the result of its cozy relationship with the for-profit prison industry. Such controversies have included the role of private prison corporations in SB 1070 and similar anti-immigrant legislation disseminated in other states; a 2010 private prison escape that resulted in two murders and a nationwide manhunt; and a failed bid to privatize nearly the entire Arizona prison system.

And now, recent events in the central Arizona town of Casa Grande show the hand of private corrections corporations reaching into the classroom, assisting local law enforcement agencies in drug raids at public schools.  

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"To invite for-profit prison guards to conduct law enforcement actions in a high school is perhaps the most direct expression of the 'schools-to-prison pipeline' I've ever seen," said Caroline Isaacs, program director of the Tucson office of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker social justice organization that advocates for criminal justice reform.