Training Our Protectors
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Issues
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  • Effects on Local and State Economies
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  • Effects on Families
  • Lack of Accountability
  • Moral Issues

National Civil Rights Coalition Launches Campaign to End For-Profit Private Prison System
From www.enewspf.com - September 5, 2013
Corporate Investors and Board Members Urged to Drop Exploitative Business
For-Profit Prison Company Tells Investors: Economy Recovery Will Put More People In Prison
From www.eastbayexpress.com 
Business Insider Australia writes July 18 that "as the U.S. economy improves, people are going back to work, investing in their homes, and preparing to make new purchases.
Prisons For-Profit in Texas and Beyond
From austincut.com
When I was first told about privatized prisons, I thought it was one of the most absurd things I had ever heard.

Effects on Local and State Economies

The Drain of Public Prison Systems and the Role of Privatization: A Case Study of State Correctional Systems
Released February 2010
by David W. Miller
NAACP Report Says Shift in Funding Toward Prisons 'Failing Us' | PBS NewsHour | April 7, 2011
From www.pbs.org
A new report from the NAACP shows states are devoting increasingly larger portions of their budgets to prisons, while education gets smaller and smaller portions.
Worst bailout ever?: Corporate welfare meets community destruction
From www.salon.com - September 4, 2013
The powerful private prison industry wants more prisoners, to maintain profits. The "solution" will horrify you
Prison Privatization: A Meta-Analysis of Cost and Quality of Confinement Indicators
Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2009, pp. 383-394

Letter: For-profit prisons don't care about well-being of prisoners
From qconline.com - May 24, 2013
The prison population in this country is exploding, and corporations like Criminal Corrections of America and GEO are profiting handsomely, thanks to Operation Streamline, a program begun under the Bush administration.

This means more profits for these companies at the expense of taxpayers, because every dime they make comes from the feds. They employ cheap labor and could care less about the health and well being of their prisoners.


CCA has doled out $881,898 in contributions since last year (in Russia it's bribery, here we call it lobbying), leading to a stock split and gains of 171 percent.

They are trying to buy prisons that are closed (select ones that they can make huge profits on) and reopen them with unqualified staff and minimum standards. Running the penal system is something that should be left to the government (just like health care and our schools).

Tom Keith,
Moline 


Moral Issues

Moral monstrosity: America’s for-profit Gulag system — RT Op-Edge
The private prison population in the US has rocketed 17-fold over the last two decades mostly on the shoulders of the deep-pocketed prison lobby, and the business continues to thrive.
2013 Jailing for Dollars: The Moral Costs of Privatizing Justice
From www.fordham.edu 
Stephen Henderson: Running prisons for profit nearly criminal
From www.livingstondaily.com
Privatization works best in parts of government where the profit motive aligns closely with the need to provide a direct, definable service to constituents.
For-Profit Prison: Making Money Off Of Crime
From www.youtube.com 
"There was a unit manager who solicited other inmates to assault me and beat me." When social scientists study the criminal justice system, they say that imp...
When prisoners mean profit, the numbers don't go down
From www.guardian.co.uk 
Zoe Williams: Cracking down on Sky TV for inmates is easy. Solving the paradox of a privatised prison service is going to be a lot harder
Freedom Forum CEO Tied to For-Profit Prisons
From fair.org
Charles Overby has a foot planted firmly in two very different worlds. In one, he is a champion of the free press. In the other, he is part of a group at the helm of a corporation that has worked h...
Wells Fargo Profits from Private Prisons
From www.mediaroots.org 
November 22, 2011 
MEDIA ROOTS — As
big banks inject record amounts of cash into lobbying this year, largely aimed at access to fin

Effects on Families

For-Profit Prison Bankers Prey On Inmates' Families With Exorbitant Fees
From www.huffingtonpost.com - October 2, 2014
Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series examining how financial companies charge high fees to the families of prison inmates.

No Accountability

For-Profit Prisons Admit To Corruption Without Consequence
From www.prosebeforehos.com 
To fill your billfold, it often helps to have a lawmaker in your pocket.
Two private prisons among worst three jails, inspectors find
From www.guardian.co.uk  
G4S-managed Oakwood and Serco-run Thameside ranked in 'serious concern' category in annual rankings
'It was absolute hell': Inside the private prison
Capital & Class, Vol. , No. 96, Autumn 2008, pp. 3-30
Eighteen Months of Sometimes Deadly Screw-Ups: Ohio Must Get Out of the For-Profit Prison Business
From www.aclu.org
Eighteen months after the first state-owned prison sold to a for-profit prison company, and there is no doubt that the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) is woefully unfit for the job.
State Report Highlights Dangers of For-Profit Prison in Ohio
From www.clevescene.com 
CCALake Erie Correctional Institution lies on the outskirts of Conneaut, Ohio.Nestled up against the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, the Lake Erie Correctional Institution strikes a concrete contrast against a springtime blue sky.

World's largest for-profit prison corporation marks 30-year anniversary
From afsc.org
This year, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the world's largest for-profit prison corporation, is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
Private Prison Profits Skyrocket, As Executives Assure Investors Of ‘Growing Offender Population’
From thinkprogress.org 
A major U.S. private prison operator known for inmate abuse, violations, and disregard for the truth reported a 56-percent spike in profit in the first quarter of 2013, due in part to its new strategy for drastically reducing its taxes, the...
Hip Hop and Prison for Profit
From rapgenius.com
Check out this article written by dope MC Homeboy...
NOW on PBS 419 Prisons for Profit 
From www.youtube.com
Corporations are running many Americans prisons, but will they put profits before prisoners? A grim new statistic: One in every hundred Americans is now lock...
Prisons for Profit . NOW on PBS
From www.pbs.org
Corporations are running many American prisons -- will they put profits before prisoners?
Private prisons and the profit motive — MSNBC
On Tuesday, the ACLU of Ohio released a timeline tracing the decline of the country's first privately-owned prison.
Daily Kos: Help us take down the private prison industry
From www.dailykos.com - September 6, 2013
The number of people detained in for-profit prisons ...
Brown's Prison Plan Bucks National Trends, Enriches For-profit Prison Corporations
From www.huffingtonpost.com -September 6, 2013
With these records, how do these companies continue to win such lucrative contracts? Part of the answer lies where the companies invest their profits.
Largest Prison-Owning Corporation Issues Massive Dividend of $675 Million to Shareholders
From www.blackbluedog.com -September 5, 2013
If you want to make money these days, owning stock in a prison company is the place to do it.  The confinement of human beings, while selling their cheap labor to companies seeking to save on labor costs has become a cash cow.
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For-Profit Prison Companies Have A Worrying Plan For Boosting Profits
From www.businessinsider.com - November 21, 2014
Say hello to for-profit psych facilities.