Koch's Criminal Justice Agenda:
Protect White-collar Criminals and
Expand the Prison Industrial Complex
For over a decade, Koch Industries and their network of donors have funded a pro-corporate "criminal justice" movement called Right on Crime. It is in lockstep with the criminal justice reform efforts being carried out by the American Legislative Exchange Council.
These reformers seek to protect the interests of their funders, namely white collar criminals and corrections profiteers. While Koch Industries and many members of their network have faced costly convictions, Right on Crime reformers seek to make it harder to convict white collar criminals. Other reforms seek to expand the privatization of prison reentry services, all the while funded by the private contractors lining up for the contracts.
What is worse, many of these reformers are being carried out by the exact same individuals and organizations who proliferated "tough on crime" laws and corrections privatization. Many of them have also been identified as attendees of Koch's secretive donor summits.