As a life-long Democrat and recent former member of the Nassau County (NY) Democratic Party Executive Committee, it makes me hessitant to contribute to, and support, DNC candidates when their leader is so obviously in bed with private prisons and their profits from the missery of others. Prisons should be run by the State or Feds (as appropriate for the court in which they prisoners were tried and the laws that they were convicted of breaking). Supporting privatization of prisons is not the kind of democracy I worked so hard to achieve. (When I started in Nassau County we were a Republican stronghold. Now we control North Hempstead and until two years ago, the County as well). Please do not set such a bad example for our Party. We need the 99% and your actions can only turn them away.