Lenient treatment of corporate executives who knowingly and intentionally harm the public is widespread. Corporate non-prosecution or deferred prosecution agreements (N/DPAs) — where the state agrees to drop or defer charges in exchange for the corporation paying a fine and
Since the 1980s, there has been an expansion of federal, state, and local law authorizing eviction for criminal activity. This growing body of carceral housing law fostered a system of tenant screening, monitoring, and marking that replicates the harms of
Corporate law and corporate power insulate private correctional owners, operators, and contractors from essential monitoring, oversight, and accountability. The macro scripts that have legitimated the alliance between “private” and “public” actors within the criminal law and carceral sector demonstrate
Over the past several years, increasing public scrutiny has led to the closure of private prisons across the country. Faced with out-group status, corrections corporations have responded by diversifying their services in government-run prisons, which has allowed them to