Prison Free Funds: Stop Profiting From Exploitation of the Prison Industrial Complex
For-profit firms have flooded money into prison and detention center infrastructure — and lobby for harsher policing and longer sentencing, even for non-violent offenders. Mass incarceration is particularly devastating for poor communities, immigrants, people of color, and their families. Inmates work for pennies per hour while their families pay exorbitant fees to keep them supplied with bare necessities. Powerful, private equity interests and corporations reap enormous profits. If this is not your idea of justice, you certainly don’t want your mutual fund investments, including 401(k) plans, supporting it.
Panelists Include:
Dalit Baum, Director of Economic Activism, American Friends Service Committee
Andrew Behar, CEO, As You Sow
Julie Goodridge, CEO, Northstar Asset Management
Patience Marime-Ball, Founder and CEO, Women of the World Endowment