If the First Paragraph of This Alone Doesn't Give You Chills..It's Like a Horror Film

[DaveJ]

39. I'm not going to feign outrage over this.

If all prisons required occupancy then I'd understand. If it's just some of them, then no big deal. And Even if all prisons were private, it is simply a contract that would require the government to pay the owners if the occupancy fell below a certain level. It is not a guarantee that people will be imprisoned to keep occupancy rates high. It means that if prisoner levels fall then government owned prisons will be the first to let them go.

I'm not going to pretend to be shocked over this. There are plenty of other much more shocking things happening. And if we need to build more prison to lock of the likes of Cheney, Rove, Romney, Bush, etc, then I'm all for it. Actually, there are petty scam artists ruining things for the rest of us too.