Texas Prison Bid'ness

I was recently alerted to the ALEC Exposed Wiki which is an amazing resource for all things about the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) including materials that were restricted to non members for years.  We have recently reported on ALEC's connections in Texas.

Folks have been suspecting for a long time now that ALEC's influence has a correlation to expanding prison privatization.  Part of the organization's mission is to:

advance the Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism, and individual liberty, through a nonpartisan public-private partnership of America's state legislators, members of the private sector, the federal government, and general public.

The wiki makes model legislation available and provides a forum for it's audience to review and post comments.  Legislation includes this model bill relating (PDF) to authorizing state prison agencies to contract out incarceration and other related services.  Take a look and join the discussion.  This is an exciting development in the effort to make the lawmaking process more transparent as it relates to prison privatization.