03/13/2019

Immigrant Advocates Just Got JPMorgan Chase to Stop Financing Private Prisons

Published By

The Nation

On March 5, JPMorgan Chase made headlines by announcing that the bank would no longer finance private-prison and immigrant-detention companies. This is the first major bank to make such an announcement, marking a potential sea change in the fight against private prisons. But it’s more than that—it also marks the sophistication and tactical savvy of an immigrant-rights movement that is working to cut off all sources of funding for the private immigrant-detention industry.

Read the full op-ed from CPD’s co-executive director, Ana Maria Archila.