Laurie Shanblum

Laurie Shanblum is the Senior Director of Business Development for the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). She has worked in the prison-industrial complex for thirty-seven years, both in juvenile and adult corrections, as well as in criminal justice, including both the public and private sectors. She is also a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), where she serves on the Private Sector Executive Committee, as well as on the Public Safety and Elections Task Force. She also sits on ALEC's Homeland Security Subcomittee.

CCA, an organizational member of ALEC, helped write Arizona’s racist and anti-immigrant Senate Bill 1070.