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Dee Hubbard: Organizer, Researcher, Activist Against Private Prison Movement

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

From Frank Smith, Organizer, Private Corrections Institute on Dee Hubbard: It hasn't ever been publicized, but Dee and I were largely responsible for initiating and "following the money" that resulted in the successful prosecution of a dozen Alaska legislators, lobbyists and executives. She and I uncovered a great deal of incriminating evidence of corruption starting back when we began working together against Alaska for-profit proposals in 2000. I had recruited her to the issue, but it wasn't much of a chore as she was already incredibly knowledgeable about state politics and immediately devoted her boundless energy to the task. We even were responsible, though it also never has been publicized, for stopping the "Bridge To Nowhere." Gravina Island had been proposed as the site of a Cornell prison in 2001, with the feds expected to pick up the quarter billion dollar cost of the bridge and an electrical intertie...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 02, 2009 (boomark / email).