Privatization of the Criminal Justice System

Across the country, private companies are running critical aspects of the criminal justice system from pretrial monitoring to diversion programs, from drug testing to GPS tracking, from prison telephone services to commissaries.  Often the criminal defendant is required to bear the costs of these services.  This panel explores the increasing role of private companies in the criminal justice system and the impact on criminal defendants, particularly the indigent.  

Please note: only those who attended the program in-person are eligible to receive CLE credit.

Panelists

• Robert N. Weiner (Moderator),  Partner | Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
  
• Sara Totonchi,  H. Lee Sarokin Executive Director | Southern Center for Human Rights
  
• Tara Gamboa-Eastman, Legislative Aide | California State Assembly
  
• Asher Waite-Jones, Staff Attorney | East Bay Community Law Center.  

CLE Materials

• Private Alternatives to Criminal Courts: The Future Is All around Us - Malcolm M. Feeley
  
• How Privatization Increases Inequality -  In the Public Interest (ITPI)
  
• Crimsumerism: Combating Consumer Abuses in the Criminal Legal System - Brian Highsmith
  
• Cashing in on Convicts: Privatization, Punishment, and the People - Laura I. Appleman
• Commercialized (In)Justice: Consumer Abuses in the Bail and Corrections Industry -  National Consumer Law Center
• REPORT: Pay or Prey: How the Alameda County Criminal Justice System Extracts Wealth from Marginalized Communities -  East Bay Community Law Center 
• Problem with Probation: A Study of the Economic and Racial Impact of Probation Fees in California (2018) - Tara Gamboa-Eastman
• Profiting from Probation: America’s “Offender-Funded” Probation Industry (2014) - Human Rights Watch
• “Set Up To Fail” The Impact of Offender-Funded Private Probation on the Poor (2018)  - Human Rights Watch