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KACP Anonymous Bullying and Harassment Report 

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CyberBullying

Cyber-bullying involves the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others. "Cyberbullying" is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones. It has to have a minor on both sides, or at least have been instigated by a minor against another minor. Once adults become involved, it is plain and simple cyber-harassment or cyberstalking. Adult cyber-harassment or cyberstalking is never called cyberbullying.

Harassment

Harassment covers a wide range of behaviors enacted by one person to another person that are intended to disturb or upset, and usually repetitive in nature. Harassment can come in many different forms including unwanted text messages. Text messaging harassment is when someone continuously sends text messages to a person when they either aren't supposed to or have been asked to stop doing it.

Bullying

Bullying occurs when a person is exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more other persons, and he or she has difficulty defending himself or herself. Bullying is aggressive behavior that involves unwanted, negative actions. Bullying involves a pattern of behavior repeated over time. Bullying involves an imbalance of power or strength.

Depression

Most people have felt sad or depressed at times. Feeling depressed can be a normal reaction to loss of a friend, loss of a relative, poor performance in school, and loss of a sporting game, students life's struggles, or an injured self-esteem. But when feelings of intense sadness, feeling helpless, hopeless, and worthless last for many weeks your depression may need to be treated as a medical condition and you may need to seek counseling and talk about how you are feeling to a counselor or physiologist.

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Cyber-bullying involves the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others. "Cyberbullying" is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones.

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Information about Puberty for Teens and Families.

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As online multiplayer games become more dynamic social spaces, hate and harassment persist. How often is this happening? How often are gamers calling this out? 

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Free to Play- Anti Harassment and Hate Speech Study in Gaming Communities from the ADL

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Free to Play- Anti Harassment and Hate Speech Study in Gaming Communities from the ADL

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Free to Play? Hate, Harassment and Positive Social Experience in Online Games 2020

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ADL's nationally representative survey looking at the experience of hate, harassment and positive social experiences in online multiplayer games in 2020.

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Is There Racial Inequality at Your School?

Based on civil rights data released by the U.S. Department of Education, ProPublica has built an interactive database to examine racial disparities in educational opportunities and school discipline. Look up more than 96,000 individual public and charter schools and 17,000 districts to see how they compare with their counterparts. | About Our Data | Related Story Local Stories

School districts where White students are more likely to be in an Advanced Placement class or gifted and talented program, compared with Black students.

Note: When unified school districts do not exist, we display secondary school districts. In districts where there are too few students of a specific group to calculate a measure, we omitted the result.

Nationally, White students are 1.8 times as likely as Black students to be in an Advanced Placement class.

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Syrus Hall, a 17-year-old from Mobile, Ala., has heard it all before: "You'll grow out of it." "It's a phase." "You're just confused."

"It makes me mad," he says.

Hall is transgender and in the early stages of his transition; he gets weekly shots of a low dose of testosterone.

"I worked really hard to be able to transition," he says. "I dealt with bullying at school, and people being mean to me just because I exist. If I can deal with that, I know who I am. I'm not going to go back."

So Hall is watching with alarm as the Alabama legislature advances bills that would outlaw hormone treatment for him and other trans youth in the state.

Thinking of the bills' proponents, he says, "Why should some guy who has never met me ... why should he get to tell me what I can and can't do? Why does he get to decide what is right for people who just want to be happy?"

This year, state legislatures have proposed a record number of anti-transgender bills.

Alabama is one of 20 states that have introduced bills that would prohibit gender-affirming medical care for trans youth.

And Alabama's bill is one of the toughest.

It would make it a felony to provide transition-related medical treatment, such as puberty blockers, hormones or surgery, to transgender minors.
"I didn't have the words for what I felt"
A high school junior, Hall hopes to study forensics in college. "I'm thinking about being either a forensics investigator or a forensic psychologist," he says.

Hall was assigned female at birth. But, he says, when he hit puberty around fifth grade, "That's when I started to fully get uncomfortable with, like, the way that I looked or the way that I felt. Like, in my head I looked a different way than I looked in the mirror."

Even though he was feeling this way, he didn't know how to explain it. "I felt different than everyone else that I knew," he says, "but I didn't have the words for what I felt. Like, I didn't know that trans people existed until I was about 12 or 13. I had never heard of trans people."

That's where the Internet comes in. Hall spent long nights online doing research to figure out who he is, and ultimately, over time, he came out as trans to his family.

Hall and his mother, Carla Saunée, found a clinic in Birmingham that provides medical care to trans youth. For his appointments, they wake up at 3 a.m. and drive four hours from Mobile to meet with the pediatric gender health team from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, which includes a pediatrician, endocrinologist, psychologists and a chaplain.

After lengthy psychological counseling, and with his mother's permission, Hall was prescribed testosterone.
"He's more himself"
On a recent Zoom call with his pediatrician from UAB, Dr. Morissa Ladinsky, Hall talked joyfully about the changes he's started to see.

"The first thing I noticed was hair," he told her. "You start growing so much hair! And I was excited because I was like, 'Oh, something's happening! This is so cool!' And then I started noticing my voice changing a little bit."

"That voice - I'm lovin' it!" Ladinsky replied, and as she heard Hall chuckle, she added, "See, that laugh. I love that laugh!"

The physical changes are one thing, but the emotional transformation has been dramatic, too.

As Hall's mom describes it, her son used to be reclusive, and would mostly stay in his room.

Now that he's transitioning, she sees him becoming more confident and social, with good friends.

"He's more himself," Saunée says. "He's happy. You know, he's like a big kid. He'll still sit on my lap and cuddle up with me, and those are things he wasn't doing before."

The swift progress of the trans medical care ban through the Alabama legislature has caused anxiety for families like theirs.

"Throughout the last few weeks," Dr. Ladinsky says, "almost every clinic visit [has] ended with either a parent or a child choking back tears, saying, 'Where do you think those bills are going? Is it really gonna happen?'"

The Alabama legislation is called the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act.

It passed overwhelmingly in the state Senate, by a vote of 23-4, and could go before the full House as early as this week.

At a House health committee hearing this month, lawmakers heard an impassioned plea from Sgt. David Fuller with the Gadsden, Ala., police department, who is father to a transgender girl.

"The health care she got [at the UAB gender health clinic] was vital to her staying alive," he told the committee. "If you take this health care out, my kid's dead."

Those testifying in favor of the bill included retired Alabama pediatrician Bill Whitaker, who claimed, "The truth is that there are only two sexes based on biology, female and male, that it's impossible to change one's sex."

Pediatrician Den Trumbull of Montgomery stated, "Medical procedures intended to alter or delay the normal sexual development of a gender-confused child is child abuse."

The bill's sponsor, state Sen. Shay Shelnutt, R-Trussville, has defended his legislation this way: "The bottom line is, we have a responsibility to protect Alabama's children. Minors are not mentally capable to make a decision of this caliber."

Those who treat transgender youth say remarks like these are not just factually wrong; they also stigmatize an already marginalized and vulnerable population.

This month, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a statement calling bills that prohibit trans medical care, or that ban trans girls from women's sports teams, "dangerous."

The academy warned that the bills "[threaten] the health and well-being of transgender youth," and concluded, "Politics has no place here."

For Dr. Ladinsky, the spread of anti-trans medical care legislation around the country is deeply disturbing. "There is a lot of viscerally repugnant language in those bills that really evoke pain and evoke fear and couldn't be farther from the truth," she says.

She points out that in their Birmingham clinic, no minor child is making the decision for treatment on their own. There is a detailed informed-consent process, and the child, their parents and the entire medical team all have to agree on a treatment plan.

Ladinsky also emphasizes that their hospital never performs gender-affirming surgery on minors.

But if the Alabama bill becomes law, she and her medical team could be charged with class C felonies for prescribing puberty blockers or hormones.

That means they could face up to 10 years in prison.

"As a doctor and a parent, the idea of this precedent scares the living crap outta me," Ladinsky says.

Bills like the medical care ban, she says, would "extend the reach or overreach of a state legislature. ... into the domain of parenting, and into the intrinsically sacred space of medical decision-making between a parent, child and the physician."

Earlier this month, the bill's Senate sponsor, Shay Shelnutt, acknowledged that he has never spoken to a transgender youth.

That admission boggles the mind of Hall's mom, Carla Saunée.

"I would ask him just to spend the day with us," she offers. "Let's have a conversation. It doesn't even have to be us! Find you a transgender youth and be around them, and experience who they are. You can't write a bill when you have zero experience with the transgender population."

There's another part of the Alabama legislation that infuriates Saunée, who teaches marketing and business technology at a public high school in Mobile.

It's a section that would force school staff to out transgender children to their parents.

"I think it would be dangerous," Saunée says, for students whose families would reject their gender identity.

"If a kid comes to me and asks me to call them by their pronouns and their name, I'm not going to deny them that," Saunée says, "because they deserve to be comfortable in an environment that is meant for them to be safe in. ... Who are you to tell me as an educator that I have to go break trust with a student, to out them to their parents, when that is not my place, at all?"

LGBTQ advocacy groups are gearing up for immediate court challenges if any of the medical care bans bubbling up around the country become law.

For Hall, Alabama's legislation would deny something essential: the person he knows himself to be. And, he says, the notion that he's a "gender-confused child" who's just "going through a phase" causes real pain.

"It's wrong," he says. "It's really messed up. And it hurts people. When people who know who they are can't access the things they need to make themselves feel better, it's awful."

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'It's Hurtful': Trans Youth Speaks Out As Alabama Debates Banning Medical Treatment

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Syrus Hall, a 17-year-old from Mobile, Ala., has heard it all before: "You'll grow out of it." "It's a phase." "You're just confused." "It makes me mad," he says. Hall is transgender and in the early stages of his transition; he gets weekly shots of a low dose of testosterone.

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Biases, we all have them... where are yours? Complete a series of simulations and quizzes to find out the messages society stores in you about other people.

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So, you want to better understand gender, or need help explaining it to someone else?

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Microaggressions are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership

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Find out what life on a reservation is really like, from the perspective of Genevieve Iron Lightning, a young Lakota dancer on the Cheyenne River Reservation.

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How does the community a person lives in impact their opportunities? Who has access to high quality education and who does not? Check out the Opportunity Atlas to see this data represented visually.

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The Opportunity Atlas is an initial release of social mobility data, the result of a collaboration between researchers at the Census Bureau, Harvard University, and Brown University. While the estimates in the Opportunity Atlas are not provisional, we are still testing aspects of the research product, including census.gov integration, planned annual data refreshes, and variable additions. Any opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Census Bureau. All results have been reviewed to ensure that no confidential information is disclosed. The statistical summaries reported in this paper have been cleared by the Census Bureau's Disclosure Review Board release authorization number CBDRB-FY18-319.

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Map the childhood roots of social mobility

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Learn which people were settled in land areas before European colonization.

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'Blue Lives Matter' Group Says They Want Street Mural In New York City | NBC News NOW

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Homeostasis: How does our body's systems respond to changes in our environment? 

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Homeostasis: How does our body's systems respond to changes in our environment? 

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Homeostasis-the monitoring and adjusting that goes on in the human body at any given time-is astounding. Your body continually makes adjustments to the body systems you use during everyday activities. In this interactive, make adjustments in respiration or heart rate or energy delivery in response to changing activities, and anticipate how a change in one system changes the balance in another system.

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This is an overview of Sandra Bland's story with commentary from her family.

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WALLER COUNTY, Texas - New cellphone footage from the now infamous traffic stop of Sandra Bland shows her perspective when a Texas state trooper points a Taser and yells, "I will light you up!"

Bland, 28, was found dead three days later in her Waller County jail cell near Houston. Her death was ruled a suicide.

The new video - released as part of a WFAA-TV exclusive in partnership with the Investigative Network - fuels the Bland family's suspicions that Texas officials withheld evidence in her controversial arrest and, later, her death.

Until now, the trooper's dashcam footage was believed to be the only full recording of the July 2015 traffic stop, which ended in Bland's arrest. The trooper claimed he feared for his safety during the stop.

The 39-second cellphone video shot by Bland remained in the hands of investigators until the Investigative Network obtained the video once the criminal investigation closed.

Bland's family members said they never saw the video before and are calling for Texas officials to reexamine the criminal case against the trooper who arrested Bland, which sparked outrage across the country.

"Open up the case, period," Bland's sister Shante Needham said when shown the video.

Needham and other Bland family members believe the video was intentionally withheld.

"We also know they have an extremely, extremely good cover-up system," Needham said.

Texas Department of Public Safety officials declined an on-camera interview but said the video was not withheld.

"The premise that the video was not produced as a part of the discovery process is wrong," DPS said in a statement. "A hard drive containing copies of 820 Gigabytes of data compiled by DPS from its investigation, including the dashcam videos, jail video footage and data from Sandra Bland's cell phone, was part of discovery."

Although dashcam footage shows that Bland had her phone in her hand during the confrontation with the trooper, officials never publicly released the footage.

Cannon Lambert, the attorney who represented the Bland family, said the video was not produced during discovery, which was done under seal, in the federal lawsuit.

"I've not seen it," said Lambert, when shown the video by Brian Collister, chief reporter with the Investigative Network.

"If they had turned it over, I would have seen it, Brian. I've not seen that," Lambert said when shown the video in his Chicago law office.

Lambert and Bland family members said the video takes them inside her car, where they can experience the confrontation and her arrest as if through Bland's eyes.

Bland was on the way to the grocery store when DPS Trooper Brian Encinia pulled her over for failing to use her turn signal when she changed lanes. The initial stop was recorded on dashcam.

Encinia asked Bland to stub out the cigarette she was smoking. She refused, and he opened her car door and threatened to drag her out.

Bland began recording Encinia with her cellphone just moments before Encinia pulled his Taser, pointed it at Bland and said, "I will light you up! Get out! Now!"

After the arrest, Encinia told authorities that he feared for his life and didn't know what Bland could grab inside her car and purse.

"My safety was in jeopardy at more than one time," Encinia told investigators.

Encinia was fired from the DPS and indicted by a grand jury for perjury, a charge that was later dropped when Encinia gave up his license and agreed to never work as an officer again.

No Waller County lawmen were indicted in connection with her jail cell death.

The Texas Rangers and Federal Bureau of Investigation searched Bland's phone during their joint investigation and discovered her video two months after the traffic stop and her death. But Bland's family members say it was never given to them.

They filed a federal wrongful death suit against Waller County and Texas DPS. The suit was settled in 2016 for $1.9 million.

As part of the settlement, the Bland family was required to return all evidence given to them as part of the federal court proceedings. They say the cellphone footage was never part of the discovery they received.

Despite repeated attempts, no one with the Texas Attorney General's office, which represented DPS in the federal civil lawsuit filed by the Bland family, has commented for this story.

DPS officials said they provided all the evidence required of them as part of the lawsuit. An investigative report mentions the cellphone video, but the mention is buried more than 60 pages into the document.

The Bland family's attorney said the video shows Encinia knew Bland wasn't a threat.

"He sees exactly what's in her hand," Lambert said of the cellphone recording. "How can you tell me you don't know what's in her hand when you're looking right dead at it? What did she do to make him feel his safety was in jeopardy? Nothing."

In the video recording, Bland tells Encinia she has "a right to record."

Encinia's lawyer argued that dashcam video showed the trooper's actions were justified.

"He gets upset, but before that ever happened, we had seen her reach out of view on the passenger side," attorney Chip Lewis said. "That is the impetus to get her out of the car."

Special prosecutor Darrell Jordan told the Investigative Network that he did have the video. Because grand jury proceedings are secret, it's unclear whether the video was shown to Waller County grand jurors.

In early 2015, Bland began posting videos on YouTube that she made with her phone, using the title "Sandy Speaks." She made videos often, discussing subjects such as officer-involved shootings of unarmed black men and compliance at traffic stops.

For Bland to have recorded some of her last moments before the downward spiral that ended in her death is not unexpected, but still jarring, her family said. They want the investigation into the arrest by the trooper reopened.

"[The video] not only shows that [Encinia] lied, but that he really had no business even stopping her, period," said Shante Needham. "And at the end of the day, he needs to go to jail."

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WFAA-TV, and Brian Collister and Eva Ruth Moravec, Investigative Network

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New cellphone video shows what Sandra Bland saw during arrest by Texas trooper

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WALLER COUNTY, Texas - New cellphone footage from the now infamous traffic stop of Sandra Bland shows her perspective when a Texas state trooper points a Taser and yells, "I will light you up!" Bland, 28, was found dead three days later in her Waller County jail cell near Houston.

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The forgotten police bombing of a Move compound in Philadelphia

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The forgotten police bombing of a Move compound in Philadelphia

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The forgotten police bombing of a Move compound in Philadelphia

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Emmett Till, Age 14, Abducted and Murdered

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No. And this is a HUGE source of misunderstanding.

Prejudice is when a person negatively pre-judges another person or group without getting to know the beliefs, thoughts, and feelings behind their words and actions. A person of any racial group can be prejudiced towards a person of any other racial group. There is no power dynamic involved.

Bigotry is stronger than prejudice, a more severe mindset and often accompanied by discriminatory behavior. It's arrogant and mean-spirited, but requires neither systems nor power to engage in.

Racism is the system that allows the racial group that's already in power to retain power. Since arriving on U.S. soil white people have used their power to create preferential access to survival rights and resources (housing, education, jobs, voting, citizenship, food, health, legal protection, etc.) for white people while simultaneously impeding people of color's access to these same rights and resources.Though "reverse racism" is a term I sometimes hear, it has never existed in America. White people are the only racial group to have ever established and retained power in the United States.

Below is a prime illustration of racism.

This Philadelphia map created in the 1930s by government and lending agencies indicates various neighborhoods' financial risk level. White policy makers considered race as much of a risk factor as a building's condition. These risk levels allowed white people like my family to buy into "best" neighborhoods with the lowest mortgage rates while leaving people of color behind in "hazardous" neighborhoods. The linked cycles of advantage and disadvantage gained traction as white people in "best" neighborhoods accessed better education, food, jobs, healthcare and home equity growth while people of color in "hazardous" neighborhoods suffered inferior education, food, jobs, healthcare and zero or declining home equity. The housing footprint created by these policies is largely intact today.

To learn more about the above practice, called redlining, click here.

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Are prejudice, bigotry, and racism the same thing?

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No. And this is a HUGE source of misunderstanding. Prejudice is when a person negatively pre-judges another person or group without getting to know the beliefs, thoughts, and feelings behind their words and actions. A person of any racial group can be prejudiced towards a person of any other racial group.

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What is the "School to Prison Pipeline?"

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What is the "School to Prison Pipeline?"

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How the School-to-Prison Pipeline Functions

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Which companies make profits from prison labor? 

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Which companies make profits from prison labor? 

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Over 4100 American companies use prison labor to manufacture and sell goods to consumers. Worthrises.org tracks them all.

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A. State Correctional Spending

The authors analyzed the annual corrections spending of five states, each of which has the largest incarcerated population within its geographic region: California (West;129,593), Florida (Southeast; 101,424), New York (Northeast; 51,727), Ohio (Midwest; 52,233), and Texas (Southwest; 163,909). From the annual spending data of each state, the authors included the name of every for-profit, private vendor paid $150,000 or more by the state's correctional agency. By focusing on the largest correctional systems in each region, the authors captured not just the largest national players, but also the largest regional players. State detail and sources:

For California, the authors analyzed the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's CY 2018 spending using the State Contracting and Procurement Registration System (caleprocure.ca.gov/pages/public-search.aspx).

For Florida, the authors analyzed the Florida Department of Corrections' FY 2017 spending using the State of Florida Vendor/Payee Payments System (fs.fldfs.com/dispub2/newvpymt4.shtml) and contracts, grant awards, and purchase orders using the Florida Accountability Contract Tracking System (facts.fldfs.com/Search/ContractSearch.aspx).

For New York, the authors analyzed the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision's FY 2017 spending using New York Open Book - Spending (wwe2.osc.state.ny.us/transparency/spending/spndMain.cfm). The authors also analyzed current contracts as of February of 2018 using New York Open Book - Contracts (wwe2.osc.state.ny.us/transparency/contracts/contractsearch.cfm) and included any for-profit, private vendor with a contract valued at $1,000,000 or more.

For Ohio, the authors analyzed the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections' FY 2017 spending using Ohio Checkbook (ohiotreasurer.gov/Transparency/Ohios-Online-Checkbook).

For Texas, the authors analyzed the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's FY 2016 spending using the Texas State Spending Transparency Visualizations (comptroller.texas.gov/transparency/spending/visualizations.php) and included any for-profit, private vendor that was paid $50,000 or more.

B. Federal Spending

Correctional Spending

The authors reviewed the U.S. Department of Justice spending data available at USAspending.gov (www.usaspending.gov/). However, this source does not cleanly parse out spending specific to the Federal Bureau of Prisons nor does it aggregate total agency payments by vendor. Consequently, the authors could not conduct a systematic analysis of federal correctional spending to identify for-profit, private vendors paid $150,000 or more by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as intended. It is possible that vendors to the Federal Bureau of Prisons are underrepresented in this report.

Immigration Detention Spending

The authors analyzed the annual immigration detention spending of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from July 2017 to June 2018 using GovSpend (www.govspend.com/) and the agency's current contracts as of July of 2018 compiled by Sludge (readsludge.com/2018/07/06/who-is-making-money-from-ice-in-your-state/) and included the name of every for-profit, private vendor paid $150,000 or more by the agency.

C. Corrections and Law Enforcement Associations

The authors reviewed and included the corporate sponsors, partners, affiliates, and members of national and state corrections and law enforcement associations as well as the vendors listed in their professional marketplaces where available and accessible as of April 2018. More specifically, the authors reviewed the American Correctional Association, Association of State Correctional Administrators, American Jail Association, American Parole and Probation Association, Association of Women Executives in Corrections, National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, National Organization of Hispanics in Criminal Justice, National Sheriffs' Association, National Correctional Industries Association, Corrections Technology Association, Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials, Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute, and the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System.

D. Advocacy Resources, Media Articles, and General Search

The authors reviewed hundreds of reports, articles, and resources published by other criminal justice and immigration detention organizations and reputable media outlets covering the prison industrial complex and its corporate players. The authors also conducted broader web searches using keywords that produced additional corporate names.

E. Other

For simplicity, the authors aggregated or omitted certain types of corporate correctional vendors:

The authors aggregated local car dealership franchises under the corporate car manufacturer.

The authors excluded single or limited partner medical and legal practices, single or limited partner property realty corporations, and hotels or lodging used for staff travel.

Most information provided for each listed corporation was taken directly from its website or the online presence of its subsidiary or parent company. State budget data, press releases, advocacy reports, and media articles also provided critical information about the listed corporations. The source columns provide the major information sources for each listed corporation.

A. Active Brand

Demarcates corporations that are still active under the listed corporate name and those that are not. Corporations marked "N" are no longer operating under the listed corporate name but may have been acquired and rolled into another corporation. See "Notes" for details.

B. Headquarters Location

State or country of corporate headquarters of the listed corporation.

C. Number of Employees

Number of people employed by the listed corporation.

D. Year Founded

Year the listed corporation or its direct predecessor(s) was founded.

E. Year Last Acquired

Year the listed corporation was last acquired either directly or indirectly through the acquisition of a parent company by either an industry competitor or financial investor (e.g. private equity firm). See "Parent Company," "Owner/Major Investor," and "Notes" for more information.

F. Corporate Structure

Lead Executive

The leading executive of the listed corporation (e.g. chief executive officer, chairman, founder, partner, etc.).

Owner/Major Investor

Any major private equity investors of the listed corporation. Some major investors may hold a minority stake. See "Notes" for acquisition and investment information.

Parent Company

The parent company of the listed corporation if it is a subsidiary of a larger corporation or holding company. See "Notes" for acquisition information.

Parent Stock Ticker

The stock ticker of the listed corporation or its parent company if publicly traded on any international stock market.

Parent Public Exposure

The listed corporation's level of public exposure based of its parent company or investor:

Tier 1a - Publicly Traded - Targeted Correctional Exposure: Corporations that are publicly traded on any international stock market and have a business segment targeting the prison industrial complex in their business model or through marketing, advertising, or sponsorships.

Tier 1b - Publicly Traded - Other: Corporations that are publicly traded on any international stock market and are presumed to be unintentionally or unknowingly engaged in the prison industry.

Tier 2 - Investment Firm-Owned: Corporations that are privately held and owned or heavily invested in by private equity and other investment firms.

Tier 3 - Large Privately-Owned, Requires Outside Financing: Corporations that are privately held and have or are estimated to have $200 million or more in annual revenues and likely require corporate financing for growth.

Tier 4 - Small Privately-Owned: Corporations that are privately held and have or are estimated to have less than $200 million in annual revenues.

G. Business Sectors

Using publicly available information, the authors assigned each listed corporation to at least one sector and one subsector. For corporations that operate in more than one sector or subsector, the authors assigned a secondary sector and subsector. For corporations that operate in more than two distinct sectors or subsectors, the authors listed the two most dominant. Because not all business models fit neatly into the defined sectors or subsectors, the authors encourage readers to delve further into the business models of corporations that draw their interest.

H. Immigration Detention Engagement

Demarcates corporations engaged in immigration detention.

I. Support of Prison Labor

Demarcates corporations that use or support prison labor, either directly or as part of their supply chain. Importantly, readers should not assume that a corporation rejects the use of prison labor simply because they are not marked as supporters prison labor. The authors only flagged corporations if there is recent, publicly available evidence of support for prison labor. The true list of corporations that support or benefit from prison labor may be much longer.

J. Harm Score

Measures the engagement of each corporation in human rights violations along three criteria: the salience or gravity of the violation, their responsibility for the violation, and their responsiveness to advocacy engagement. Each criterion is scored on a scale from 1 to 5, making the overall harm score range 3 to 15. To score each corporation the authors used a screen developed by the Investigate Project at the American Friends Services Committee available at https://investigate.afsc.org/divest. Because scoring is subjective, the authors at Worth Rises calibrated internally and, consequently, the resulting scores may not reflect the views of the American Friends Services Committee.

K. Divestment

Demarcates corporations recommended for divestment based on a harm score of more than 10.

L. Financials

The authors collected financial information from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, annual reports, and FactSet for publicly traded corporations; acquisition announcements for acquired corporations and parent companies; and PrivCo for privately held corporations, as available. FactSet maintains a financial database of public corporations for members. PrivCo maintains a financial database of private corporation for members.

Annual Revenues ($Mn)

The actual or estimated annual revenues of the listed corporation in USD million for the last available year. Figures are specific to the listed corporation, not its parent company or a subsidiary. Revenue figures include all reported revenues for the listed corporation and should not be interpreted as revenues generated specifically from the prison industrial complex.

Revenue Year

Fiscal year of the reported revenue figure.

Prison Industry Revenue Only

Demarcates corporations with business models that are entirely dependent on the prison industry from those that are only partially engaged.

M. Political Spending Since 2010

Working with the National Institute on Money in Politics, the authors gathered data on lobbying expenditures and corporate campaign contributions made to federal and state candidates, major party committees, and ballot measure committees since 2010 by corporations that derive all their revenues from the prison industry. The data also includes contributions made to political campaigns in a few local races, namely city elections in Chicago, New York City, and Washington D.C. and supervisor elections in Orange County, California.

N. Notes

Any information detail that may add color beyond what the data already offers.

O. Sources

Website

Corporate website for the listed corporation.

Corrections

Source for proof of engagement in corrections for the listed corporation. Corrections sources may be references to the corporation's general website, a specific page on its website, its relation to a subsidiary or parent in the data, a trusted advocacy report, a credible media article, or a corrections agency's spending data.

Immigration Detention

Source for proof of engagement in immigration detention for the listed corporation. Immigration detention sources may be references to the corporation's general website, a specific page on its website, its relation to a subsidiary or parent in the data, a trusted advocacy report, a credible media article, or an immigration agency's spending data.

Prison Labor

Source for proof of engagement in prison labor for the listed corporation. Prison labor sources may be references to the corporation's general website, a specific page on its website, its relation to a subsidiary or parent in the data, a trusted advocacy report, a credible media article, or a correctional industries' website.

Financials

Source of financial information for the listed corporation.

Other

Any other direct source relevant to the listed corporation. The most common other sources are press releases providing acquisition details, proof of the sponsorship of correctional or law enforcement associations, and other media coverage.

A. Corporate Identification

Regional, Size, and Agency Coverage

This report systematically looked at the correctional spending of five states and, in large part, only included corporations collecting over $150,000 annually. Looking broader into other states and local agencies or lowering the payment threshold would likely produce thousands of additional corporate names. As discussed above, the report is also limited in its coverage of correctional vendors serving the federal government.

Accurate not Exhaustive

The authors chose to include only corporations that they could determine with confidence are currently engaged in the prison industry whether as standalone corporations, active subsidiaries, or absorbed predecessor corporations. There are lists that charge major publicly traded consumer products corporations with profiting from prison labor. And while likely accurate accusations at the time of their publishing, they may now be outdated. Choosing to preserve the integrity of the corporate identification process, the authors have decided against including these corporations without additional corroboration of their continued engagement.

Obscurity of Prison Labor

Given the lack of transparency in corporate supply chains, this report is likely limited in its coverage of corporations benefiting from prison labor. However, it does capture suppliers of raw materials to correctional industries, an aspect of prison labor that is often overlooked, given that their purchases are reflected in state spending data. Unfortunately, state revenue data, which would capture corporations that consume products created using prison labor, is not readily accessible.

B. Corporate Data

Dominance of Privately Held Corporations

The overwhelming majority of corporations that operate in the prison industrial complex are privately held. Thus, collecting information about their business models, corporate structures, and financial performance is incredibly difficult. Accordingly, there are gaps in corporate data for many of the listed corporations, including major players in the prison industrial complex.

Limitations of Sector Designations

In an effort to organize the thousands of corporations that operate in the prison industrial complex, the authors created a set of 12 industry sectors plus investors and a structure of subsectors that fits within them. However, not every corporation neatly fits into one of these sectors. While the authors have made their best effort to appropriately categorize every listed corporation, they encourage readers to follow the provided sources for clarity.

Underestimate of Political Influence

Political contributions are generally difficult to trace. The authors worked with the National Institute on Money in Politics to analyze the political spending of the corporations that derive all their revenue from the prison industry. While the spending data captures campaign contributions to federal and state candidates, major party committees, and ballot measure committees, as well as lobbying spending, it is short on contributions made to local campaigns and initiatives. The data also omits corporate contributions made to political action committees and individual campaign contributions made by affiliated corporate executives, two common vehicles for political contributions. Accordingly, the authors warn that the political spending figure is likely to be a significant underestimate.

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