Thursday, June 14, 2012

Private prisons

  • According to a recent article in the New Yorker Presidential candidate Mitt Romney continues to promote the agenda of privitization. The reasoning behind this is that the private industry is more efficient than the public sector.
  • (Examiner)
  • Mississippi - Sometime between the 8:45 p.m. and the 9:15 p.m. staff shift change on July 30, 2010, Tracy Alan Province, John Charles McCluskey and Daniel Kelly Renwick escaped from Arizona State Prison-Kingman. Just after 10 p.m.
  • (Corrections.com)
  • U.S. Justice Department investigators found that both state officials and the GEO Group Inc.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • In the early 1990s, the state was under a federal court order to reduce overcrowding, but instead of releasing prisoners or loosening sentencing guidelines, the state incentivized the building of private prisons.
  • (New York Times)
  • Today, the privatization of prisons refers both to the takeover of existing public facilities by private operators and to the building and operation of new and additional prisons by for-profit prison companies.
  • (Corrections.com)
  • Nearly 20,000 inmates were once jammed into triple bunks in day rooms, gyms and other areas, and more than 9,000 inmates remain in private prisons in other states.
  • (Contra Costa Times)
  • From some of the poorest towns in America to some of the wealthiest investment firms on Wall Street, CNBC's Scott Cohn travels the country to go inside the big and controversial business of prisons.
  • (CNBC)
  • The governor has proposed ending the practice of sending California prisoners to private prisons in other states, and he has explored new rules to reduce corrections department staffing. But more can be done.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • Adam Gopnik, The Caging of America In an age when freedom is fast becoming the exception rather than the rule, imprisoning Americans in private prisons run by mega-corporations has turned into a cash cow for big business.
  • (Palo Verde Valley Times)

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