laws, committing horrendous human rights violations, and if we actually lived in a country where such things as human rights mattered, handing over the prison system to a bunch of profiteers who have created a new slavery, would never have happened in the first place.

I hope she take every penny in profit they ever made and that it shuts them down permanently.

You got it right.

...which would make some truly captivating 24/7 television.

but I would gladly tune in to watch that.

stop them from committing what is a crime, denying people medicine they need to remain alive, demonstrates just how psychotic and sick these morons who themselves belong out of society imho, really are.

I'm sickened by what is going on in this country that claims to be so righteous, so 'free'.

Thanks for your comment, you said it succinctly.

Even a few years ago I would not have believed that my nation would stoop to this.

for profit prison industry to exist.

They can only serve to corrupt government turning it into a autocratic, fascist regime in alienation against the people.

The very concept of for profit prisons is anathema to any society claiming to revere freedom and democracy.

I'll rec it 1000 times.

And I agree with everything you said.

Lock them down

courts incarcerate. These two institutions are entwined in each other. What's next? Privatizing our justice system? I hope not.

But calling her a 73-year old Embezzler doesn't generate as much outrage I suppose.

I object on principle to emotional manipulation, as I do to for-profit prisons.

73-year old woman would have sufficed.

I have no idea what point you're trying to make with this. Here is another in a seemingly infinite list of outrageous abuses that seeks some relief through media exposure, and you want to complain that "It's sensationalistic"? What country do you live in?

The point can be addressed without accusing the poster of exploiting the story for personal gain.

I hope we haven't reached that level yet. But it's not far off.

Lets all cheer.

Are we civilized or are we not civilized?

We should stop all abuse that occurs in prison.

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especially given with how the over zealous DA's around the country are willing to throw the Ryan Ferguson's in jail, to rot forever, while untested DNA found at the crime scene also rots and molders in a vault somewhere.

Luckily young Ryan was recently released, but only because his father spent ten years advocating and was able to find a determined defense attorney to work the case correctly.

But there are a hell of a lot of other innocents, of all ages, behind bars for no real reason other than local authorities needed a conviction.

Jails and prisons should be clean, safe environments.

FOR ALL

Provide rehabilitation. However, the disgusting and dangerous life style that encloses people once they are jailed makes it difficult for anyone to have anything but PTSD as a result of their experience.

Not receiving the right cancer medication? Solitary? Really?

Do you remember what you were doing when you first heard about the for-profit prisons being built? What crossed your mind? Or did it escape your notice that private facilities by their nature have no public oversight? Or what? The scandals have been trickling out for years.

I know what crossed my mind -- a very appalled "What could possibly go wrong with this notion?"

mean she should be subjected to torture, and/or a denial of medication that could cost her, and the other inmates their lives?

Of course she shouldn't. As I said above, calling her a 73-year old WOMAN would suffice.

her treatment more than just her problem, it means there are children who probably love her and whose own lives are likely to be adversely affected if they learn that someone they love has been treated this way, as if she were sub-human. When rights are denied to one person, it often doesn't just affect that one person, it affects those in their immediate families, their friends, and then society as a whole.

It doesn't matter, whether she is a grandmother or not, or an ax murderer or a thief, but it adds context to the story and if it brings home the horror of these prisons by allowing people to relate to her in a human way, sometimes people need to know that just because someone committed one crime, doesn't mean we should not care about them, if it humanizes them, then it is a good way to get more attention and empathy for a story that badly needs attention.

The 25-year-old mother, the 30-year-old father, the 80-year-great-grandmother, and so on.

is that people are often put in solitary because they're a danger to other inmates, but that is less likely with someone that old.

If she had instead gone on a killing spree, the media would certainly describe her as a 73-year-old grandmother.


It's sensationalistic, but it's the nature of the beast.

"doesn't generate as much outrage I suppose..."

I imagine also that many will make no mention of the actual substance of her complaints and rather focus on the irrelevant to better validate their own petulant outrage as well...

Only the state can take away your inalienable rights if you break it's laws and hold you against your will. Incarcerating a offender in a "private prison" flies in the face of a government "of, for, and by" the people. It gives corporatists the "right" to hold you against your will.

If I ever break the law and get sent to prison, I want it to be because my crime was against "the people" and not "the investors."

I hate private prisons but in reality the government still has control over who gets there.

I suppose it's the image of being held by private enterprise.

Besides, isn't the OP about a woman who was thrown into isolation by the corporation and given nauseating meds by the corporation?

Where's the accountability?

in all prisons private or public run..it is a universal issue. ..California, a very blue state abuses prisoners, too. and the Democratic governor is fighting the fixes.

its a no win situation

america what happened? Oh never mind, mr. greed is good reagan, bush sr, jr happened.geez 73 years old in solitary for asking for medical care. The more I think about this, the angrier I get.

Based on a true story from the 1950's...southern mental health facility used to warehouse criminals from overflowing prisons among the patients. Complete failure to treat, punishing abuses that even killed detainees.

Fought by a letter writing campaign from the inside documenting all the abuse. Ultimately gained attention of a state senator who initiated investigations that put an end to it in that place at that time.

For all the politicians, judges and corporate executives that have profited from these monstrosities.

And hand over control to former inmates that were abused.

But money talks, as we see with our very own War Criminals, and Wall St. Criminals. Too bad that woman didn't embezzle billions, she would have been living in a mansion. Her real crime was not committing one that made her 'too big to fail'. Jail is for the little people these days. The big criminals get bailed out, by the little people.

But it also requires strength in numbers..... unity to support each other.

Very cool. (Awful what they did to the women there but she did something.)

As Fascism progresses the outrages will grow and the intimidation level will amp up until people are afraid to speak out. The nation has reached a crisis level.