The student group said it objected to the university's allying itself with any company that profits from incarcerating people.
It is believed that incalculable emotional damage could result from incarcerating the defendant whose own life has been a seemingly unending series of punishments.
But regardless of the crime committed, the law prohibits a court from incarcerating children younger than 14, preferring to rehabilitate them.
While judges elsewhere in the state were shifting away from incarcerating juveniles for delinquency, Luzerne County was becoming infamous for imposing heavy sentences for minor infractions.
The attorney general's coffers are lined by many who stand to benefit from incarcerating cannabis users.
After the ballot measure's passage, members joined other advocacy organizations to steer the savings generated from incarcerating fewer people to community-based organizations for mental health, drug abuse and other social services.
The questions is: What is the impact on American cultural and social relationships when we, as a nation, allow corporations to profit from incarcerating more and more of our very own citizens?
Jones-Sawyer said his bill, unlike the previous proposal, would address concerns from store owners without stepping back from the overall goal of the voter initiative: to stop counties from incarcerating people for minor or petty crimes that are sometimes tied to mental health or drug abuse issues.
"One thing we learned from being incarcerated," Calvin Ollins said.
The task ahead is to prevent our imagination from being incarcerated by smart technologies.
If private corporations are making money from housing incarcerated individuals, are the facilities less likely to rehabilitate their prisoners and reduce recidivism?
