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In reply to the discussion: Apparently privatization has created an increase in incarcerations. [View all]Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)11. I'm not so sure. Look at this:
We are living in boom times for the private prison industry. The Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation's largest owner of private prisons, has seen its revenue climb by more than 500 percent in the last two decades. And CCA wants to get much, much bigger: Last year, the company made an offer to 48 governors to buy and operate their state-funded prisons. But what made CCA's pitch to those governors so audacious and shocking was that it included a so-called occupancy requirement, a clause demanding the state keep those newly privatized prisons at least 90 percent full at all times regardless of whether crime was rising or falling.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/private-prisons-occupancy-quota-cca-crime
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Apparently privatization has created an increase in incarcerations. [View all]
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
OP
When prisons are privatized, there is usually a minimum inmate occupancy percentage specified
djean111
May 2014
#1
Yes, and that's something else I didn't know. How can this go on under our very noses? nt
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
#19
YES!!! Europeans just don't believe it, they don't get it. The U.S. is SO IMMORAL in every way
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
#33
This kind of thing is exactly why you have to write policy with the assumption that the...
Shandris
May 2014
#4
It is time to start. What upsets me is that every day I find out a new for-profit evil in this
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
#14
with the drug laws being changed, it should be interesting to see the prison population drop.
hollysmom
May 2014
#5
Big time. The only PLEASING THING is that some of these ahs are ending up in prisons themselves
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
#22
Republicans believe that everything can be bought and sold and a profit made of it. By the way...
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
#13
I honestly didn't. I knew it was sick to privatize such a thing, but to artificially increase the
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
#20
Yes it does. That needs to be publicized every chance we get, till it becomes a source of
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
#30
Private prisons are also using their profit to lobby for longer sentences.
ohnoyoudidnt
May 2014
#25
That's another thing, yes - the corrections officers and prisoners are all in danger. nt
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
#32
You did??? The whole time I was horrified watching it. How can something like that happen in this
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
#31