Growing up in Prison

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or as the institution used to be called - school.

theonestonecutter raised this in another whyzzat thread and mentioned the article about police in Texas schools that was published by the Guardian.

I replied
The government pays good money for every American incarcerated. A school is not so much a place of learning but a gold mine. If you can get people arrested early then they are more likely to become permanently involved in the justice system and a finding of guilt is the sound of gilt.
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and today I found out that I'm not the only person to suspect that. Maddison Ruppert at EndTheLie.com posted an article today on the same premise, titled "Creating lifelong customers: the school-to-prison pipeline and the private prison industry".

Among the links from that article are examples of ridiculous policing in schools including this video depicting a special needs students arrest for not tucking in his shirt.


Also linked is a pdf report from the Justice Policy Institute that examines how prison for profit corrupts the justice system and costs too much.

Gaming the System: How the Political Strategies of Private Prison Companies Promote Ineffective Incarceration Policies
 
No excuse for this video at all, shameful.
 
The violence in the video is more than just ridiculous, but at the same time I can understand why cops are in schools - because kids with guns are way too common. I think it's ridiculous that school buses need to fully stop before crossing any railroad tracks, but they do because I imagine some school bus was hit by a train once so new rules were put in place to ensure it never happens even if it's unlikely. And yet, this increases the change that a school bus will be hit from behind my a semi-trailer. So it's easy to believe that there are people who feel better with a cop in a school for that same reason. However, having a cop in a school can lead to this. It's all about risk management.
 
Why this took place in Obamaland, Chicago. The city where Obama had a sweet heart deal with convicted felon, Tony Rezko, for land that his house was built on. So I'm not too surprised this happen there, as regrettable as it was that a student got beaten by school police.

What I don't get is why was private prisons included in this thread, other then emotionally link it to student getting beatened? Private prisons are not the problem, it's the school system and the parents that are the problem. Private prisons take only what is sent to them by the courts after they are arrested by the police. Blaming them is sort of like blaming the people at the dump for having garbage piled up. If the private company is charging too much for their services to run a prison, they don't get the next contract. Very simple, states do not have the money to throw at anything anymore. If they can save on not having more state employees demanding more benefits and retirement, the cheaper the taxes are for everyone.

I'm sure the student's parents will get something out of this after the City and SEIU (or whatever the cop's union is) will make sure this goes away.
 
Dammy said:
What I don't get is why was private prisons included in this thread, other then emotionally link it to student getting beatened?
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Perhaps it's because you didn't read the post and the links?

In short: The private prisons needs bodies in jail so they can bill the government. Encouraging heavy policing at school helps turn normal belligerent teenagers into people "known to the police". Teenagers are often defiant and resistant to authority. These are not crimes per se, but putting police in the schools criminalizes normal adolescent behaviour.

The private prison companies like to lobby politicians for more policing and for longer sentencing as this feeds their bottom line. They put money into the campaigns of politicians who are "tough on crime" and in favour of privatization. They have also been known to bribe judges to get more "customers". It's not at all like blaming the dump for having garbage piled up - unless the people at the dump were making money based on the size of the pile and were paying politicians to buy extra stuff on the public purse just to send along to the dump.

And the private prisons end up costing more than the public ones did - though the guards get paid less and the prisoners do more work that they don't get paid for but the prison companies do.
 
As state governments wrestle with massive budget shortfalls, a Wall Street giant is offering a solution: cash in exchange for state property. Prisons, to be exact.​
Corrections Corporation of America, the nation's largest operator of for-profit prisons, has sent letters recently to 48 states offering to buy up their prisons as a remedy for "challenging corrections budgets." In exchange, the company is asking for a 20-year management contract, plus an assurance that the prison would remain at least 90 percent full, according to a copy of the letter obtained by The Huffington Post.​
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