Texas Prison Bid'ness

Bob Libal is a Texas organizer for Grassroots Leadership focusing on the expansion of the private federal detention system. He is a 2003 graduate of the University of Texas, where he was involved with numerous social justice campaigns.

For three and a half years, he served as co-coordinator of Grassroots Leadership’s Not With Our Money campaign. He has advocated for federal detention reform and against private prison expansion with South Texans Opposing Private Prisons and Texans United for Families.

Bob co-authored Progress or Profit: Positive Alternatives to Privatization and Incarceration in Shelby County, Tennessee and Considering a Private Jail, Prison, or Detention Center? A Resource Guide for Public Officials in Texas. He currently lives in Austin, Texas, and can be reached using our contact form.