By FRAUD and CORRUPTION.
This proposal has been promoted to 48 states. If it's accepted, how long do you think it will be, before you, or someone you know, gets caught up in a system that you won't be able to get out of.
Then you to can be added to the rolls of "forced labor slaves" to ensure the lowest paid wage, by the corporate ladder of control.
Or in other words, welcome to Atlanta's "Chain Gang", or Russia's "Gulags" or Germany's forced "labor camps" of WWII.
I leave you,with the choice of name you're comfortable with, but there is one choice with which you will certainly have no control over, that being one of decent humane treatment. "For Profit" takes that one right out of the picture.
Good luck America, you'll need it.
At a time when states are struggling to reduce bloated prison populations and tight budgets, a private prison management company is offering to buy prisons in exchange for various considerations, including a controversial guarantee that the governments maintain a 90% occupancy rate for at least 20 years.
By M. Spencer Green, AP
The $250 million proposal, circulated by the Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America to prison officials in 48 states, has been blasted by some state officials who suggest such a program could pressure criminal justice officials to seek harsher sentences to maintain the contractually required occupancy rates.
"You don't want a prison system operating with the goal of maximizing profits," says Texas state Sen. John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat and advocate for reducing prison populations through less costly diversion programs. "The only thing worse is that this seeks to take advantage of some states' troubled financial position."
Corrections Corporation spokesman Steve Owen defended the company's "investment initiative," describing it as "an additional option" for cash-strapped states to consider.
The proposal seeks to build upon a deal reached last fall
