Stealing From The Mouth of Public Education to Feed the Prison Industrial Complex

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4. It sure is.... Here in Wisconsin, after the exposure of ALEC, a connection

of this war on drugs legislation led by scott walker was revealed..

Here is a link to start with:Scott Walker and American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) have long history:http://bdgrdemocracy.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/scott-walker-and-american-legislative-exchange-council-alec-have-long-history/

The following bills were authored by Walker in the 1997 session (the preceding link allows for a search by bill number):

AB740 – Prohibits Public Funding of Abortion

AB953 – Releases Doctors, Nurses, and Pharmacists from liability for refusing on religious or creed beliefs, to provide services such as birth control, abortion, and end-of-life actions such as feeding or breathing tube removal.

AB441/SB46 – Justice Substitution – an almost exact version just recently passed the Joint Judiciary Committee.

AB634 – Authorizes the DOC to contract for privatized inmate services, including transport and incarceration, outside OR inside the state.

All the bills above are carbon copies of “model legislation” in the ALEC playbook. They also have (and had) powerful corporate money and influence in their development. The major power players in ALEC today: