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| style="color:#000000;" | <div style="padding:2px 5px; font-size:120%;">[[File:forprofitprisons.jpg|120px|left|alt=Guns, Prisons, Crime, and Immigration]]'''This page documents how bills pushed by ALEC corporations help result in taxpayers subsidize subsidizing the profits of the private prison industry by putting more people in jail for-profit prisons and keeping them in prison jail for longer.''' The bills also would put more guns on streets and interfere with local law enforcement decisions about how best to interact with immigrant communities. '''Through ALEC, corporations have both a VOICE and a VOTE on specific state laws. ''Do you?'' '''</div>
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<big>'''Corporations and their politician allies voted behind closed doors through ALEC to change America's criminal justice system and enrich profits.'''</big><br>
On the surface, many ALEC bills look like basic tough-on-crime legislation, but some corporate leaders of ALEC benefit financially from such legislation -- meaning that what has been sold to the public as good for public safety was often pushed by corporations that profit from such changes in the law, without politicians disclosing their corporate allies' financial interest to the public when such bills , pre-approved by the corporations , were introduced.
Examples include:
