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For-Profit Prison Corporations Promise Investors A Growing Offender Population
ThinkProgress on the rosy outlook from Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group, the nations first- and second-largest operators of for-profit prisons:
During a conference call touting its success, representatives at GEO Group boasted that the company continues to have solid occupancy rates in mid to high 90s and that they are optimistic regarding the outlook for the industry, in part due to a growing offender population. GEO Senior Vice President John Hurley assured investors during the call:
We have a longstanding partnership with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the United States Marshal Service and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE.
We continue to see meaningful opportunities for us to partner with all three of these federal agencies. The federal bureau of prisons continues to face capacity constraints coupled with a growing offender population.
During its investor call in February, CCA CEO Damon Hininger assured investors a strong continued demand for beds.
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silverweb
(16,402 posts)ananda
(28,891 posts)Our society is so sick.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)... even the ones run by the Feds/States.
marmar
(77,109 posts)RainDog
(28,784 posts)DiverDave
(4,891 posts)for people to make money, and HOPE for more people in jail is UN-american.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Or is it that they just really do not give a shit, since the notion of people rising up against them went away sometime around Bush's first Reign of Fear?
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)We should be grateful there are strong Amerkin industries like this..
Deny and Shred
(1,061 posts)commentary on society when for-profit prisons partner with government law enforcement agencies to keep the occupancy rates high.
What if there aren't enough felons? Find some. Get government to lower the bar, alter the criteria, extend sentences - anything to keep the cells filled. No wonder DoJ is pushing marijuana prosecutions. All involved ought to do some major soul searching.
meow2u3
(24,775 posts)From what I've read about them, they're no better than the concentration camps of the 20th Century.