Texas Prison Bid'ness

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. 

Information and opportunities to take action to free the children locked up in the T. Don Hutto prison.

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.

A viewpoint on anything and everything from a Latina perspective -- good coverage of Texas immigration issues.

A blog keeping track of the Willacy Detention Center in Raymondville, the largest immigrant detention center in the United States.

Real Cost of Prisons Project works to strengthen and deepen the organizing capacity of grassroots prison/justice activists, to provide a social, economic and political context for understanding mass incarceration and to broaden public understanding of the economic and social consequences of mass incarceration.

News, reports and resources on correctional privatization from all over the world. This service is provided to inform our members, legislators and the public about the problems with for-profit private corrections.

Check out their rap sheet, with information about the histories of specific private prison companies.

A national network of students and activists working to end prisons for profit. Not With Our Money was a crucial part of the campaign that got Sodexho to divest itself of its prisons-for-profit, and is currently focused on Lehman Brothers, the #1 financier to the private prison industry.

The Prison and Jail Accountability Project of the ACLU is dedicated to making Texas prisons and jails safe and humane places to live and work.

They monitor prisons and jails by tracking the conditions of confinement, and receive thousands of letters every year from prisoners and their families.