(CCA-owned private prison) Fatal Mississippi prison riot quelled, authorities say

[alp227]

Source: CNN

Authorities said early Monday they had put down a prison riot that claimed the life of a guard as it continued into the late evening Sunday.

Catlin Carithers, a 24-year-old senior correctional officer, died of injuries sustained in the disturbance at the Adams County Correctional Facility in Natchez, Mississippi, according to Tennessee-based Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which owns the facility.

The county coroner said earlier the guard died of head injuries. Carithers joined the company in 2009, CCA said.

It was not immediately clear what prompted the riot, which began about 2:40 p.m. (3:40 p.m. ET) Sunday, officials said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/21/us/mississippi-prison-disturbance/index.html

[lib2DaBone]

1. Corporate fo-profit prisons need to be outlawed...

America already has THE highest prison population in the world.... (including Russia and Communist China)

[CanonRay]

2. Only the State has the right to hold you prisoner

not any corporation. I think private prisons are illegal and unconstitutional.

[groundloop]

3. +1 Has this ever been argued in front of a judge?

I've never heard of a case where someone argued a private corporation didn't have the authority to hold someone against their will. If someone knows of such a case I'm sure many here would love to hear about it.

[CanonRay]

8. I've never heard of any such case...

this has just always been my opinion.

[provis99]

9. if Blackwater mercenaries have the right to shoot us dead in New Orleans streets,

private prisons have a right to hold us against our will.

[Archae]

4. I just wonder what caused this riot.

It could be even nothing.
Prisoners who have nothing to lose, and are bored, overcrowded and frustrated, they'll lash out.

[gratuitous]

5. A "24-year-old senior correctional officer"?

She'd been with the company for three years. I wonder what the qualifications and responsibilities are for being a "senior" correctional officer, or if it's just a title a person gets after a certain amount of time on the job?

As far as what prompted the riot, we may never know, as that would be too revealing of CCA's company secrets or something.

[angstlessk]

7. That sentence struck me like a bolt of lightening..24 year old senior correctional officer?

What must the junior correctional officers be like? 16? 18? Most have under 3 years? Three years makes one a senior? hell it takes four in high school!..I bet the turnover is utterly amazing (and not in a good 'amazing' way)

[gopiscrap]

6. We should never have for profit

Prisons, schools, transportation, health care and utilites!!!

[Odin2005]

10. Slave owners supressing slaves in revolt.