Amnesty International @ ASU West

Amnesty International @ ASU West

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AI Tempe has meetings the first Sunday of each month

Sunday, October 6th, 12:30 - 2:00 pm.

Nello's Pizza Tempe1806 E Southern AveTempe, Arizona

Dan Peitzmeyer, President of Death Penalty Alternatives for Arizona will speak about the current status of the death penalty in general, and the specifics in Arizona.

Ed Schad will be executed on Oct 9. There will be a vigil held for him outside Florence Prison (Walls)

Clemency hearing for Roth Jones October 16

Roth Jones Execution will held onOct. 23

Fifty Years of Amnesty International

Prisons and Human Rights

400 people a day enter prison/jail in AZ

harsher penalties make overcrowding

Immigration issues contribute to overcrowding

Immigrants have been known to disappear-MCSO staff worker

For-Profit Prisons

Banking on Bondage

Huge Windfall for private prison industry

No reason to allow people out of prison

Slavery $.05 to minimum wage ( only about 30 people)

In a2010 Annual Reportfiled with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) stated: The demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by . . . leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices . . . .

ACLU Private prisons

Private prisons

Tough immigration laws are a boon toThe Prison Industrial Complex

"The private sector would stand to benefit the most because the feds have turned to them to meet their immigration needs," said Kevin Campbell, a senior research analyst at investment firm Avondale Partners, who is recommending CCA and GEO Group.

He thinks private contractors could snag 80% of the additional inmates.

How does a minimum security prison become a maximum security prison?

How do you get solitary confinement?

Lifetime parole

Lie detector test mandatory- you must pay for the test-penile electrodes

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