Texas Prison Bid'ness

The Texas Jail Project is dedicated to improving the conditions for approximately 70,000 people—mothers, fathers, brothers, sons, sisters and daughters—incarcerated in Texas jails on any given day.  TJP formed to improve conditions for incarcerated women and men by publicizing the widespread abuse and neglect in the more than 250 county facilities in Texas

Grassroots Leadership is a 28 year-old Southern-based social justice organization that organizes against private prisons, jails, and detention centers.  Grassroots Leadership staffer Bob Libal and research intern Nick Hudson and board member Nicole Porter contribute to Texas Prison Bid'ness. 

Coverage of various Texas civil rights issues, including extensive coverage of T. Don Hutto private prison.

The Detention Watch Network (DWN) is the only national coalition in the United States that addresses the detention crisis head-on and helps detainees and their loved ones make their voices heard. Formed in 1997 in response to the rapid growth of the immigration detention system in the United States, DWN is a network of individuals and organizations working in support of, and in service to, immigrants in detention. Check out their map of ICE detention locations (many of them private prisons) at http://detentionwatchnetwork.org/dwn_map.