ACLU takes on Prison Profiteers

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Join the hosts of New Abolitionists Radio as they discuss the issues and news related to 21st Century Slavery and Human Trafficking.

In a new campaign the ACLU takes on Prison Profiteers in a media educational blitz and NAR offers our perspective.

Collaborating with private prisons like the GEO Group California Governor Jerry Brown is poised to traffic 4,400 men in order to meet US Supreme Court demands of prison reductions. The men will generate an est $220,000,000 annual windfall for the prisons.

Highlighted in this week’s Overseer Chronicles will be the 2012 death of John Loxas who was standing outside of his home in Scottsdale Arizona with his grandchild in his arms when Officer James Peters fired one shot to the head, killing him.

We also discuss the 18th National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation October 22, 2013

Tonight's abolitionist's profile is Daniel Alexander Payne (February 24, 1811 – November 2, 1893).

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