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Quote:Private prison company offers to buy 48 states’ prisons

In exchange for keeping at least a 90 percent occupancy rate, the private prison company Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) has sent a letter to 48 states offering to manage their prisons for the low price of $250 million per year, according to a letter obtained by the Huffington Post.

The company says it’s a way for states to help manage their current budget crisis. “We believe this comes at a timely and helpful juncture and hope you will share our belief in the benefits of the purchase-and-manage model,” CCA chief corrections officer Harley Lappin said in the letter.

But reports indicate that private prisons do not actually save states money, since the average inmate costing more than in public prisons. Worse yet, for-profit prisons have been accused of heightened levels of violence toward prisoners and have limited incentives to reduce future crimes by current inmates, through education and training programs, counseling or drug and alcohol rehabilitation, according to a report from the American Civil Liberties Union.

Last year, the CCA became the first for-profit prison company to buy outright a state-owned prison, under the auspices of the Administration of Ohio Governor John Kasich ®.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/14/pr...s-prisons/
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some scary shit
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Yep, now just make slave camps out of prisons and we are all set for NWO...
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You can't combine privatization of jails and the state. It is a recipe for disaster.
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(02-15-2012 11:26 AM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:  You can't combine privatization of jails and the state. It is a recipe for disaster.

Yeah but the few benefit which is really what anybody cares about. Laugh
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(02-15-2012 11:32 AM)HeartofShadows Wrote:  
(02-15-2012 11:26 AM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:  You can't combine privatization of jails and the state. It is a recipe for disaster.

Yeah but the few benefit which is really what anybody cares about. Laugh

Until they find themselves at the wrong end of a gun.
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