Prison companies in the United States are earning record profits thanks to the influence of correction industry lobbyists on political leaders and the criminal justice system. Something that boosts that influence is the practice of counting prisoners as residents of the districts in which they are incarcerated, instead of the neighborhoods they come from, which ends up inflating the political power of the rural areas where prisons are concentrated. This is the view of lawyer Rey López-Calderón of the Washington-based organization Common Cause, author of the “Democracy Behind Bars” study. He spoke with Samuel Orozco on the program Línea Abierta.
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