Texas Prison Bid'ness

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.

Scott Henson's observations of most everything going on at the Texas legislature regarding prisons, jails, crime and the injustice of Texas' criminal justice system.

Based in Oregon, Partnership for Safety and Justice brings together people who have been convicted of crimes, survivors of crime, and the families of both to change our criminal justice system.

You can check out their articles on prison privatization.

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.

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