Forbes: Candidate Forum With Biden, Sanders, Trump, Warren Bears Bad News For Private Prison & Bail Bond Industries
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A panel of Republicans spoke more directly to the private prison industry. Notably, Holly Harris, Executive Director of the Justice Action Network and conservative campaign strategist from Kentucky, spoke at length to the harm she and others have observed in her state. “I’m not a fan of for-profit prisons; they have a terrible history in Kentucky. There was a rash of rapes of women that were covered up; the environment was so toxic that a prison guard actually committed suicide.” She also referenced starvation experienced by incarcerated individuals in private prisons. More generally, from a conservative perspective, she later quoted a Republican mentor, “Conservatives are all for more privatization. But we should privatize things we want more of, not less of.”