Labor Struggles Continue in Australia

Just a quick update here on the potential strike by GEO Group employees in Australia; the workers are now threatening "industrial action," meaning they're going to stop working.  The guards are asking for better pay and higher staffing levels (the prison experienced a riot in January that was exacerbated by a lack of staff), requests the GEO Group considers "totally unrealistic."

Occupy Protests Private Prisons in Harlem

Keeping up with today's short theme, here's a link to an article about a protest organized by the Occupy camp that took place in Harlem earlier this week against Wells Fargo, because it invests so much money in the private prison giants CCA and the GEO Group.

Goodyear, AZ "Grateful" To Not Get a Private Prison

That is all.

National Actions Targeting Private Prison Investors

More coverage from the protests last week over Wells Fargo's and other banks' continued investments in the private prison industry:

Protesters Shut Down Wells-Fargo

Really quick, I just want to give a shout-out to the protesters who came out last week against Wells-Fargo, shutting down 2 branches in California due to the bank's being the "king of private prison finances."