Safara Parrott of Be Better Belmont on how the ties between Belmont and CoreCivic were born out of a long history of profit and racist complicity.
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Attorney Kelley Henry joins Pastor Kevin Riggs and Kevin Sage to discuss her work as a Death Row Attorney, specifically with the urgent Pervis Payne case.
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LISTEN ? An important new episode of #FloodsOfJustice is LIVE.@riggs_kevin and @KevinSage talk with death-row attorney Kelley Henry about her work fighting injustice in the carceral state, namely about the urgent case of Pervis Payne.
FULL PODCAST ? https://t.co/oekPW2M2po pic.twitter.com/JqwNH8Z3Fr
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) October 15, 2020
On Fox Nashville’s Politics in Focus Sunday, Republican strategist and Trump 2020 Davidson County Co-Chair Rick Williams came out against private prisons, which flies in the face of Republican policy.
WATCH: “Keeping Prisoners Should be Done BY GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES”
Davidson “Trump 2020” Co-Chair @ricknashlimo comes out AGAINST private prisons (!) on @FOXNashville’s Politics in Focus.
FULL: https://t.co/Wf199aECbR @HarrietvWallace @jlhthe3rd @BillRPhillips1 @chrisjollyhale pic.twitter.com/DqxBJq9q16
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) January 1, 2020
ALSO – Davidson Democrats black caucus chair Jasper Hendricks wondered aloud why private prisons get more per inmate than state-run prisons. A good question.
WATCH: “CORE CIVIC gets $66/inmate. If @NashSheriff Hall ran the jail he‘s only get $37. WHY?? —- @CoreCivic has a suite @Titans STADIUM.” @jlhthe3rd posing good Q’s about private prisons in TN & lack of accountability on “Politics In Focus”. @FOXNashville @HarrietvWallace pic.twitter.com/yyqdpHTvJv
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) January 1, 2020
Tell your local reps it’s time to stop letting people profit off of the incarceration of human beings, especially at the border. President Trump has increased the investment in private prisons tremendously, as has the state of Tennessee under Governor Bill Lee.