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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThree States Dump Major Private Prison Company In One Month
State lawmakers who embraced private prisons as a cost-cutting measure are starting to have trouble ignoring their abysmal conditions. Corrections Corporation of America, the largest and most powerful private prison company in the nation, lost four prison contracts in the past month after extensive reports of abuse, neglect, and even fraud within their operations.
Idaho cut ties with the corporation on Wednesday, which turned the states largest prison into a violent hellhole inmates called Gladiator School. Earlier this year, CCA was caught understaffing the prison and using prison gangs to control the population. The company admitted to falsifying nearly 4,800 hours of staffing records to squeeze more money out of the state for nonexistent security work. Shift logs at the prison showed the same security guards working for 2 to 3 days at a time without breaks.
Last week, Texas closed two CCA prisons, including one with a history of suspicious prisoner deaths. One lawsuit alleges prison staff ignored an inmates cries for medical assistance, forcing her to give birth in a prison toilet to a baby that died four days later.
CCA was also booted from Mississippi earlier this month after multiple deadly riots over poor food and sanitation, lack of medical care, and mistreatment by guards. Mississippi is hiring another private prison company, MTC, to take over CCAs contract even though MTC runs another prison with the highest inmate assault rate in the state. Mississippi already terminated contracts with the other major private prison company, GEO Group, after it was found guilty of turning a juvenile facility into a cesspool of unconstitutional and inhuman acts. Despite this record, the state is apparently not ready to give up on private prisons.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/21/2193261/three-states-dump-private-prison-company-in-one-month/
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Three States Dump Major Private Prison Company In One Month (Original Post)
UrbScotty
Jun 2013
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(5,043 posts)1. For profit prisons are an abomination!
No one should have a profit motive to incarcerate people. No one should have a profit motive for keeping people in jail.
This system is a serious blight on our society.
Now states are realizing just what a raw deal they are.