There are jails that are run by government agencies where almost every single service in that jail has been outsourced to private tests.

Telephone services, video calling services, tablets, money transfers, laundry services, community corrections, so think about electronic monitoring, right?

People pay for the electronic monitors on their ankles.

Food, commissary, literally every step of the way you walk in a jail or prison and you will see

private actors.

The government is not separate from that.

They are a collaborator and conspirator with these private companies and also profit, not just the corporations themselves. Hi, I'm Josie Duffy Rice.

And I'm Donovan Ramsey.

And this is Justice in America.

Each show we discuss a topic in the American Criminal Justice System and we try to explain what it is and how it works.

Thank you so much everyone for joining us today.

You can find us on Twitter at Justice Underscore Podcast.

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rate us on Apple podcast. We'd love to hear from you. We open the show with a

clip from our guest, Bianca Tylick. Bianca is the founder and executive director of Wirth Rises.

Wirth Rises is a non-profit advocacy organization that's dedicated to

dismantling the prison industrial complex and they deal a lot with privatization.

Yes, so today's subject is privatization.

In other words, it's the ways in which corporations are making money off of people who are criminal system involved. But first we're

going to talk about the word of the day. I guess it's more of a phrase. It's

Broken Windows policing. The Broken Windows theory is a criminological theory that states that visible signs of crime,

antisocial behavior, and civil disorder creates an urban environment that encourages further crime and disorder including serious crime, things like

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