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If you have thoughts about any of our episodes or have an idea for a future episode, please reach out to us! In this episode, we break down how private prisons became a major part of Arizona’s corrections system and why the state relies on contract prison beds at one of the highest rates in the country. We walk through where private prisons came from, how sentencing policy and population growth sh...

If you have thoughts about any of our episodes or have an idea for a future episode, please reach out to us! In this episode, we talk about Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and how immigration enforcement in Arizona became one of the most visible and controversial policy issues in the country. We walk through where ICE came from, how Arizona became a national testing ground for enforce...

If you have thoughts about any of our episodes or have an idea for a future episode, please reach out to us! In this episode, we talk about Arizona's Universal ESA program and how it got started, who the players were, how it impacts Arizona families, and how it has grown into a huge drain on our state budget and our public schools.  Citations:  https://sosarizona.org/the-truth-about-esa-vouch...