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

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72. So true, but we all know better. It will be the poor who populate the prisons

just as it is now, with a few minor exceptions.
I remember when CCA first came into middle TN., I was barely an adult. I was in college and I knew a few lawyers and judges. I attended some parties where they were present. Most of them used illegal drugs and chased college students (most were married). They spoke of CCA as an investment opportunity that was "a sure thing."
A few years later, I was on trial for back-child support. I had been giving my ex-wife cash weekly and she claimed that I had never paid her..I know, my mistake.
I was ordered to pay back child support and I was put on probation with CCA. I drove an RC Cola truck for about 15 hours a day. CCA said it was "no problem," they would work around my schedule so that I could report weekly and (of course) pay them my probation fee's. They lied. They never attempted to allow me to meet them after work although I sent my fee's in diligently.
They violated my probation 3 times. I ended up doing a year of weekends in a disgustingly unsanitary basement in the jail (filled to over-capacity), the sewage from the cells above us constantly leaked on us and we had to sleep on the floor...
I believe that lawyers, judges and bankers are the biggest stockholders in CCA, although IMO this would create a huge conflict of interest for the legal professionals.
We, the poor and (at the time) working poor are chattel that these vampires live on. This "deal" would only serve to solidify that relationship.
On my very last day of incarceration and the end of my probation, a jailer (who was very sadistic) decided to violate me because I was 15 minutes late. People were always late and were released after their 48 hours were served.
That was the day that I moved (in the middle of the night) to Indiana for the next 2 decades. I have since returned, because my family (sick mother) lives here. This place is still the same. It is a nightmare and I understand that the "good ol' boy system" that now has women too, is even worse than before..