Want to defund the prison industrial complex, exploitative prison labor, and immigration detention centers? Prison Free Funds can help you find out if your money is invested in these economic systems of oppression and exploitation.
For-profit firms have flooded money into prison and detention center infrastructure and services, and have used industry associations to lobby for harsher policing and longer sentencing, even for non-violent offenders. Mass incarceration is a manifestation of racist policy, particularly devastating for poor communities, immigrants, people of color, and their families. Inmates work for pennies per hour while their families pay exorbitant fees to keep them supplied with bare necessities. Powerful, private equity interests and corporations reap enormous profits from the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border and the policing of immigration.
By using this free online tool and our prison industrial complex-free action toolkit, you will be able to harness your economic power to shift your hard-earned savings away from these systems and support the movement for true equality and liberation for all people.
Prison Free Funds focuses on two aspects of the prison industrial complex: companies involved in the prison industry (such as private for-profit prison operators and prison services providers), and companies involved in the militarization of borders and the policing of immigration. The company-level research is provided by the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization devoted to service, development, and peace programs throughout the world.
Index | Rated as | Prison industrial complex grade |
---|---|---|
S&P 500 | IVV | D |
Russell 1000 | IWB | D |
Russell 2000 | IWM | F |
Russell 3000 | IWV | F |
S&P 100 | OEF | D |
Russell Top 200 | IWL | D |
MSCI ACWI | ACWI | F |
MSCI EAFE | EFA | F |
MSCI Emerging Markets | EEM | A |
MSCI ACWI ex U.S. | ACWX | F |
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