Private prisons use our tax money to give kickbacks to judges and governors to incarcerate as many Americans as possible!!

were fucking serfs...and our leaders are no better than the kings and queens we fled to start this country...

slavery is alive and well in america...wake up

Rich Scott is pushing to privatize more of their prisons.
He got a lot of campaign money from them. Two articles.

"Florida lawmakers are poised to make dramatic changes to the state’s prison system, turning over as many as 14 prisons to private companies in hopes of trimming the cost of housing the state’s criminals.

But as the Legislature moves aggressively to expand the reach of private prisons, fundamental questions remain unanswered. Such as: Do private prisons really save Florida taxpayers money? And if so, how much cheaper are they?"

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/23/2181158/effort-to-privatize-florida-prison...

Study: Privatizing prisons has questionable benefits
"Privatizing Florida’s prison system has done little to lower costs or reduce recidivism rates compared to prisons operated by the state, according to a report released Friday by the Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy.
"Florida's experience with privatized prisons raises serious questions about whether the taxpayers are getting their money's worth," FCFEP Executive Director John Hall said in a news release."

http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2010/04/05/daily58.html

News like this demonstrates why some functions of government should ALWAYS be maintained by the state. Allowing people to profit from prisons, roads, and state security puts incentives in morally wrong directions.

I don't give a shit if a private company says it can build and operate a prison for one third the cost of a state run institution - it leads to abuse of prisoners, increases in recidivism, and graft.

Didn't it come out that the Arizona immigration law was directly written by a private prison company? That's worse than a kickback.

Legalize drugs and half the prisons in the country would end up closing.Good that the prisons are being sued much easier to sue private prisons than sue the government.Hopefully they lose enough money that the financial pain will force them and others to change.

This is just the next money making plan, housing bubble has been milked pretty well, with still more to suck dry. Now they have moved on to private prisons which are another great source of income, with repeat uneducated customers. Once you’re in you never really get out, there are no jobs for people who have served time, it hard enough for regular folks to get jobs at Mickey Dee’s. So when they try for 3 months to get a job and continue to strike out it will not be long before these ex-con’s become desperate and return to the only life they know, nasty cycle. This is nothing new, only difference is the coverage now being paid to the people who have always profited from this situation. Judges getting kick back, DA padding there record 95% success rates, cops moving up in the rank with BS busts and the private contracts raping the states for cash, padding the pockets of politicians. It’s called Use POOR PEOPLE FOR PROFIT(PPFP).

The GOP at work.

Surprise surprise surprise? NO! And with Citizens United, this could get uglier.

I dont know what to say. I am a broken record on this issue . This is not a new thing . not a new problem . I read long ago that . people were paid to house and imprison persons who were caught up in the legal system IN PRIVATE HOMES . Who do you think would get the extra work ( money ) . Answer; the friends and relatives of the court ( the judge ) . That was in some of the original 13 colonies. Some accused witches were said to have been held this way. Now fast forward to the time between WWI and WWII when experimenting with eugenics became somewhat popular in the good old USA. Young people aproaching and of reproductive age were prevented from reproduction by incarceration on vague charges. The vague charges were just to provide cover and denieabillity for the motivation . Any citizen of this country should become aware of this part of our history by reading the book MAKEING MEN MORAL. Dont know where my copies are and donot recall those attributed as authors . The book was required reading in some classes at AZ State University in Tempe AZ . You can be sure private persons were working the system to make money on these latter day incarceration pressures that devastated the lives of huge numbers of innocent young people. Thankyou Navider for the posting.

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Lame!!! Such Corruption...

Shocker - seems the alarm was sounded here in Arizona when GED Jan and her staff were filling their pockets with private prison cash while authoring the horrid SB1070 bill... nobody gave a shit. Once again, welcome to the Corporate States of America where profit trumps all laws, decency, and morals!

we are becoming a coorperate run police state with plenty of slave prisoners for free labor.

The private prison system has destroyed American lives, economy, and FREEDOM. You want me to go to jail for what? Smoking the herb? Failing to pay fines with money I don't have? Resisting false arrest? Living my life? Fuck you private prison system, fuck you very much.

Privatizing any program that should be run by the government is never effective or efficient. Not only does it cost more, but generally employees are under-trained and underpaid. It is also easier to become corrupt. These programs include: Prisons, Public Schools, Public Utilities, Public Works (road, bridges, and water/sewer), Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. All the programs the GOP wanted to privatize so their rich buddies can get richer.

This is just ONE example of how privatizing any government program is bad and shouldn't be allowed.
The current GOP tried it with Medicare.....but it didn't go over well.
They're trying to destroy our public education system and slowly replace it with the already fraud ridden charter schools.
Eric Cantor was quoted as saying he wanted to abolish Social Security.
A few other guys said they want mandatory 401K's instead.......why? .....so wall street can rob us of more pension money? Wasn't the 1.7 Trillion they already stole enough for them?

They're also pushing the line with Medicaid. They call it Block Grants.
Block Grants let the states do whatever they please with the money......and to hell with the tax payers.

It's time to make lobbying ILLEGAL.
It's time to stop private for profit corporate funded groups, their lobbyists and think tanks from writing our laws.
It's time to reverse Citizens United and go back to transparent election funding.

WTF?

free market libertarians are championing this alright, they love nothing more than taxing the poor and slaves the give to the fucking rich-prison guards

Private prisons are like communism on paper fairly good Idea, but because it assumes the good will of people and that natural law will prevail, things go poorly. People are not inherently good, and without proper oversight things do not go well in private prisons. A coworker told me of a friend of his that was shipped off to one of these private prisons he did his time plus an extra year for someone to locate his paper work so that he could be released, he sued and the company counter sued, thats been locked up now for several years, he tried to sue the state but they said it wasn't their problem and the judge agreed. As more and more prisons go private, how many more of these stories will surface, how much more pain and agony will be caused by the drive for profits?

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A society that privatizes jails promotes criminalization. Privatization of wars promotes endless wars. Privatization of healthcare promotes sickness. Seems obvious. The private sector is by nature competitive and as humans have no limit to how competitive and aggressive we can be, so for those sectors to grow these bad things must happen.... we need to find a balance where we privatize things that do not promote the reverse effects that we are seeking.

Odd that you are seeing this on Russian television and our media has given it no coverage that I have seen lately. I have read articles about it but had not seen video coverage until now.

This should really piss off and wake up Americans to privatizing of any Government job that is part of the commons!