After facing increasing pressure from San Diegans opposed to the for-profit private prison industry, California State Senator Toni Atkins announced she has donated $12,000 to non-profit organizations supporting immigrants- an amount slightly more than the campaign contributions she had received. Other San Diego elected officials have taken similar steps: Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez-Fletcher has claimed she donated contributions received from CoreCivic- the nation's 2nd largest for-profit private prison corporation- but has not provided details of her contributions. US Representative Juan Vargas has promised to donate ten-times the amount of contributions he received from CoreCivic; he received $3000 from them while serving as a California State Senator. (see: http://bit.ly/VargasDirtyMoney) PLEASE KEEP THE PRESSURE ON THESE LEGISLATORS AND POLITICAL PARTIES TO DO THE RIGHT THING: Share this update with others. Encourage friends to sign the petition and ask their legislators to DONATE private prison money they have received to organizations that are helping immigrant families and to REFUSE future private-prison contributions. Thank you for your help!