The escape of 3 murderers from the MTC prison in Kingman, Arizona, was facilitated by MTC's inability to properly secure, staff, and operate a prison. Among the issues that contributed:
Floodlights were burned out.
Officers had inadequate firearms training and weapons were not well inventoried.
75 percent of the inmates did not wear proper identification.
Apparently the facility had a highly-malfunctioning alarm system that had gone off 89 times during the course of the day the prisoners escaped. So the staff had begun to largely ignore it, sometimes taking more than an hour to check on it.
The control panel that showed the status of the perimeter fence was riddled with burned-out bulbs so it couldn't be properly monitored.
One of the guard posts supposed to be maintained near the perimeter fence was vacant for most of the day. So no one saw the prisoners walk out of a dormitory door that had been propped open (though it was supposed to be locked) with a rock and climb over a chain-link fence that didn't have barbed wire on it.
Thankfully this has woken up at least someone with some power in Arizona who now questions the ability of MTC to operate a facility; DOC director Chuck Ryan. After stating he lacked confidence in MTC's ability to secure the facility, he removed a lot of medium- and higher-security inmates from the facility, and says he wants MTC to prove to him that the state of Arizona shouldn't cancel its contract with the company.
The control panel that showed the status of the perimeter fence was riddled with burned-out bulbs .
ReplyDeleteCCA had nothing to do with this you IDIOTS!!!!
ReplyDeletewhat's your point? they're not the only company that abuses people and violates their rights in the process of privatizing a prison. It would have been too hard to tell people to go to whyihateccaandgeogroupandmtcandlcs.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteAgreed.
ReplyDeleteNowhere in your post do you even mention CCA. You're anti PIC which means you cover ALL stories on private prisons.
you're right; I am anti-PIC, but in particular, I'm against the idea of incarcerating people for profit. we spend about $70 billion incarcerating people in this country every year, and far outpace any other country in the world in our rates and real numbers of incarceration. As I say right under the title, I hate anyone who makes a profit from incarcerating human being. MTC is included in that.
ReplyDeleteI also hate Bondage for profit!! The ones that get hurt the most are poor people because they can't afford to fight back!
Deleteyou're exactly right; much of the discrimination that exists in our CJS is due to the fact that poor people simply can't afford legal counsel. Someone's experience with the CJS is only as good as the lawyer he/she/the corporation can afford. And it's not like poor people can pay lobbyists millions of dollars to cozy up to politicians
DeleteIts alarmingly clear that we are "storing" more Americans than ever. This story, although titled improperly, still proves that the almighty dollar comes before anything else and that corporate prisons should be monitored as much if not more than state or federal run facilities.
ReplyDeleteHow would you have titled it differently? I think its supremely appropriate, given all the information that came out about MTC's failures to secure the facility. I totally agree with your sentiment, but as far as running a prison is concerned, I think this is a prime example of what not to do
DeleteCCA is not MTC. If your going to start a website bashing a company then you need to know what you are talking about. CCA and MTC are two different corrections companies. WOW!!!
ReplyDeletei'm really at a loss here... can you please just read the comments above? i don't need to go over this again.
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