Wouldn’t you love to see just one university tell student protesters to shut up and mind their own business?

CNN reports.

University of California dumps private prison stocks after student protests

The University of California is taking its money out of prisons.

Student activists won a victory by convincing the University of California to dump nearly $30 million in stock in for-profit prison companies.

The Afrikan Black Coalition argued that the prisons and the university were profiting from the over-criminalization of minorities.

“UC has blood on their hands,” the group said in November. “Private prison corporations exist to build centers of white supremacist dehumanization, turning Black, brown, and immigrant bodies into a profit under the guise of rehabilitation.”
The group hailed the decision as “historic and momentous.”

The sale of the stock in Corrections Corporation of America (CXW) and The Geo Group (GEO) was confirmed by the office of UC President Janet Napolitano, who was formerly secretary of Homeland Security and governor of Arizona.


 
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