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IDemo

(16,926 posts) Thu Mar 26, 2015, 09:41 PM Mar 2015

My tooth-grinding habit was not helped by listening to NPR this morning [View all]

The featured story was about the economic devastation to a Texas town after a prison riot forced the closure of the institution that had been virtually its only source of income. Interviews with people determined to "get our prisoners back" for the good of the bottom line. The whole focus was on what a great source of moolah private prisons can be and what a tragedy it is if they go away.

You would have thought the town's orphanage had burned down.

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My tooth-grinding habit was not helped by listening to NPR this morning [View all] IDemo Mar 2015 OP

Prisons should not be for profit. WDIM Mar 2015 #1

Yuck. mahina Mar 2015 #2

Yes, I noticed that too. ErikJ Mar 2015 #5

So that's what that was. Someone here had the tv on as background & i couldn't figure out ND-Dem Mar 2015 #8

Governor Perry will provide them with better economic opportunities. Martin Eden Mar 2015 #3

Perry should be in prison himself. nt ErikJ Mar 2015 #6

NPR peddling RW memes to independents is WORSE than Fox. Faryn Balyncd Mar 2015 #4

Absolutely, the Totebaggers think NPR is liberal.. Fumesucker Mar 2015 #14

If it was the main source of jobs in town, I can understand why they felt that way; ND-Dem Mar 2015 #7

There would almost certainly be MORE jobs. Private prisons are notorious for cutting staffing LeftyMom Mar 2015 #9

likely, yes -- except that these days, at least in my area, public jobs are being cut, ND-Dem Mar 2015 #11

In a nation with an utterly outsourced economy, prisons ARE the only economy in some places Wella Mar 2015 #10

Jesus Christ....... Enthusiast Mar 2015 #12

once we privatized prisons, crime REALLY paid spanone Mar 2015 #13