Executions in Texas cost 2.3 million dollars (might we start to ask who profits from death?). Private prison complexes make $72,000 from filling one bed for a year—and heads of those companies are currently hard at work lobbying for policies that increase racial profiling and arrests of Latino/as and African Americans. Want to learn more about our prison system? Listen to this fabulous talk—new at the The School— from Laura Markle Downton.

