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Amnesty International @ ASU West

Amnesty International @ ASU West. Welcome! This is the place where we stand together on issues of social justice.

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Amnesty International @ ASU West

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  1. Amnesty International @ ASU West

  2. Welcome! This is the place where we stand together on issues of social justice

  3. AnnouncementsAI Tempe has meetings the first Sunday of each monthSunday, October 6th, 12:30 - 2:00 pm.Nello's Pizza Tempe1806 E Southern AveTempe, Arizona

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. Fifty Years of Amnesty International

  7. 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

  8. 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)

  9. In a 2010 Annual Report filed 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 . . . .

  10. ACLU Private prisons Private prisons Tough immigration laws are a boon to The Prison Industrial Complex

  11. "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.

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

  13. 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

  14. All photos from Amnesty International Website Used by permission HURT

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