Hillary Clinton accepts money from Private Prison Contractors While Saying Black Lives Matter

[votesparks]

As immigration and incarceration issues become central to the 2016 presidential campaign, lobbyists for two major prison companies are serving as top fundraisers for Hillary Clinton.

Corrections Corporation of America and the Geo Group could both see their fortunes turning if there are fewer people to lock up in the future.

Last week, Clinton and other candidates revealed a number of lobbyists who are serving as “bundlers” for their campaigns. Bundlers collect contributions on behalf of a campaign, and are often rewarded with special favors, such as access to the candidate.

Richard Sullivan, of the lobbying firm Capitol Counsel, is a bundler for the Clinton campaign, bringing in $44,859 in contributions in a few short months. Sullivan is also a registered lobbyist for the Geo Group, a company that operates a number of jails, including immigrant detention centers, for profit.

The whole story: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/23/private-prison-lobbyists-raising-cash-hillary-clinton/

[Thinkingabout]

1. The David Sparks Show, huh.

In the information you have given how many donors was solicited?

[Major Nikon]

2. We need more police, we need more and tougher prison sentences for repeat offenders.

The three strikes and you’re out for violent offenders has to be part of the plan. We need more prisons to keep violent offenders for as long as it takes to keep them off the streets.
-- Hillary Clinton, 1994

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3. BILL CLINTON signed the 1994 VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL LAW which funded more prisons,

100,000 police, established harsher sentences and created 60 new death penalty offenses. Since May and July when he spoke at an NAACP conference, Clinton has apologized for his criminal justice policies stating, "I made criminal justice worse, we went too far, there are too many people in prison".



BILL CLINTON: I MADE CRIMINAL JUSTICE 'WORSE', WE WENT TOO FAR, THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE IN PRISON
http://www.democraticunderground.com/128027936

[appalachiablue]

4. THURGOOD MARSHALL, JR who worked for the Clinton adminstration, is a board member

of the CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA (CCA), the largest private corrections company in the US. He is the son of Thurgood Marshall, the respected Civil Rights lawyer and first black Supreme Court Justice known for his work on the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education (1954) on the desegregation of public schools.

Thurgood Marshall, Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall,_Jr.

Corrections Corporation of America (CCA)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrections_Corporation_of_America

Thurgood Marshall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall



Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993), Civil Rights lawyer, first black Justice of the Supreme Court (1967-1991).

[99th_Monkey]

5. I thought Dick Cheney had private prison industry sewed up

But now Clintons are his new business partners?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3485581/Dick-Cheney-charged-over-abuse-in-private-prisons.html

[George II]

6. The Clintons are part owners in prisons? WHERE DID YOU GET THAT????

[99th_Monkey]

7. It isn't THAT big of a stretch, but ok, I'll admit it's a bit of an exaggeration

An industry known for inhumane treatment of prisoners that advocates harsher
sentencing of 'criminals', this same industry that made millions for Dick Cheney,
that same industry donates more money to Hillary Clinton than to their GOP
darling, Marco Rubio.

Is that better?

It is totally accurate and factual if you'd like the links.