Powerful Private Prison Profits

[donsu]

http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/03/07/powerful-private-prison-profits/


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Corrections Corp of America

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CCA is the fifth largest U.S. prison system, with 69,000 beds in 63 prisons in 19 states plus Washington, DC. Only 3 states and the federal government run larger prison operations.

Prison Industry Is Big Business
Now that the U.S. has over 2 million prisoners behind bars — the largest prison population in the world — the prison industry is big corporate business. Shares of CCA stock are traded on the New York Stock Exchange (CXW), and with 1000 people added to U.S. prisons and jails each week, the future of CCA is looking bright.

But never mind its current success. CCA, like most companies, wants even more business. And there’s only so many criminals to go around. What’s a poor prison company to do?

Recruiting California Inmates

Seeing how California’s prisons are so overpopulated, CCA is recruiting convicts from Schwarzenegger land to come do their time in Tennessee!

Using a video advertisement piped into correctional institutions, CCA is showing thousands of west coast inmates why they should volunteer to move east of the Mississippi:

Larger and cleaner jail cells.
ESPN plus 78 other TV channels.
Views of tranquil cow pastures.
Inmates in the “Dorm of the Week” get to stay up all night, watch a movie, and choose between cheeseburgers or pizza.

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Rise of the Prison-Industrial Complex
In addition to CCA, there are other booming private prison companies: the GEO Group runs 61 prisons with 49,000 beds, and Cornell Companies has 79 prisons with a capacity of 19,200.

As with the Military-Industrial Complex, which profits by sending more and more of the population to war, the Prison-Industrial Complex profits by putting more and more of the population behind bars.

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And therein lies the true reason such a high percentage of the U.S. population is incarcerated: it makes money.
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they are making huge bucks on the backs of weed tokers

aaarrrrgggghhhh

what a country

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Prison guard unions are also very interested

in keeping the incarceration rates up in order to keep high employment rates among their members. They advocate against all kinds of leniency in sentencing, drug decrim, etc. A case in which one part of the proletariat is very interested in feeding on the ones beneath them in the hierarchy.