Proponents of privatizing government services (i.e. "conservatives") love to talk about supposed improvements in efficiency and delivery of services the private sector offers compared to the government. In reality, attempts to privatize government services, including everything from military service to social security, are nothing more than government welfare for wealthy corporate donors and empowered individuals. Politicians give contracts to companies and individuals who contribute to their campaigns and causes, not to companies who will perform the services in good faith. The private prison industry is a shining example of this phenomenon.
Which brings me to this article. I'll let the author speak for herself: "Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have continued to use troubled detention facilities despite documenting flagrant violations of their own detention standards, including poor medical care and mistreatment of detainees."
ICE's own records indicate a litany of areas in which private prison operators have failed to live up to contractual obligations and failed to operate safe, humane facilities. Yet they continue to get contracts, due in large part to the millions of dollars the industry spends in lobbying and campaign contributions every year.
Very cool. I always enjoy the interviews. Thanks for having this blog
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ReplyDeleteI was in south central in 2015 during a certain incident where I saw a door to a cell screw up so they had to move the inmate into a cell with a different inmate which was a member of a certain white gang which I will not say out of respect that I'm not a member so I can't say their business. Anyway in prison it's basically understood if a sex offender comes in your cell you do the worst you can to them for the children they hurt. The gang member told the guards I'll kill him if you put him in here and the guy said I fear for my life when he said that I fear for my life it was supposed to be automatic protective custody but they laughed and made him go into the cell anyway. When I got up the next morning I saw where he beat the guy to death and cut pieces off him after he was dead and then placed him in his bed. When they finally discovered it they were falling in his blood and they denied it all and even said he died enroute to hospital. Rather a sex offender deserves it or not it was plain and simple incompetence and really assessory to murder but no charges filed who would have thought.
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