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   [thread] prison industrial complex

   See also:
   Poverty industrial complex
   https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111025108282701968

   Prisons, conditions
   https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110653873757382969

   Private Equity at Heart of Cop City
   Profiting f. prison-industrial complex
   https://truthout.org/articles/private-equity-influence-is-at-the-heart-of-cop-city-report-reveals

   * 2021 Atlanta leased land to Atlanta Police Foundation $10/yr
   * since then approved $67M to supplement 1/3 contribution APF promised
   * current project total $90M

   #PrivateEquity #StopCopCity #Atlanta #capitalism #PrisonIndustrialComplex #corporations

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     * APF one of U.S.’ highest-revenue police foundations
     * supports projects that supplement Atlanta Police Department’s $250 million budget
     * watchdog organization Private Equity Stakeholder Project investigates ties betw. private equity & APF
     * argue that private equity influence is at heart of planned forest conversion (Cop City)

     #neoliberalism #MilitarizedPolice #PoliceAccountability #DefundPolice #DefundBillionaires #APF #PESP #CopCity #StopCopCity #Atlanta #PoliceState #neofascism

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     * private equity companies provide DeKalb County Jail, Fulton County Jail, & Atlanta City Detention Center w. commissary, communications, medical services
     * profit f. detention of protesters
     * other corporations profit f. increased police surveillance
     * 2016+ Atlanta paid APF $3.6 million to acquire SWAT equipment, license plate readers, thousands of surveillance cameras for its biggest program, Operation Shield

     #MilitarizedPolice #DefundPolice #APF #CopCity #StopCopCity #neofascism

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     Private equity Profits f. Destroying Atlanta Forest
     Connections to Cop City & Blackhall Studios
     https://pestakeholder.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/PE-Profits-from-Destroying-the-Atlanta-Forest_March_2023.pdf

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     Cop City: Atlanta City Council OKs $67M for Facility Despite Mass Protests & Armed Raid on Bail Fund
     https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110498034813139445
     https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/6/cop_city_atlanta_vote_bail_fund
     https://web.archive.org/web/20230609031916/https://newrepublic.com/post/173275/atlanta-council-approves-cop-city-funding-despite-opposition

     #MilitarizedPolice #DefundPolice #APF #CopCity #StopCopCity #neofascism #corporations #PrivateEquity #PrisonIndustrialComplex #GOP #Atlanta #RightToProtest #HumanRights

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     Addendum 1

     A Billionaire Conserving Montana Is Funding the Group Bulldozing the Atlanta Forest
     Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank is helping fund the forces behind Cop City
     https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110471619577888008
     https://inthesetimes.com/article/arthur-blank-cop-city

     #HomeDepot #ArthurBlank #DefundBillionaires #MilitarizedPolice #DefundPolice #APF #CopCity #StopCopCity #neofascism #PrivateEquity #PrisonIndustrialComplex #GOP #Atlanta #RightToProtest #HumanRights #PrivateEquity #corporations #DefundCorporations