The Prison Business

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Louisiana is the epicentre of incarceration for profit. Locking people up is one of the biggest industries in the land of the free and getting taxpayers to foot the bill is just the Orwellian icing on the cake. It's a self reinforcing system, the more it grows the more it can grow, just like cancer, and like cancer it is eating the host.
 
Nice little earner and all too predictable.
 
There are so many Democrat politicians in prison in Louisiana that the average taxpayer's don't mind paying a little extra just to keep them there.:D
 
Bill Chandler, executive director of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, said his group has gotten complaints about the facility in the past year, mostly from people saying they weren't getting adequate health care.
Frank Smith, who runs the online prison watchdog group Private Corrections Working Group, said those are the kinds of conditions that usually trigger a riot.
"The big problem is CCA tries to cut corners in every possible way. They short-staff, they don't fix equipment, and things just get more and more out of control, and that's what leads to these riots. It's just about maximizing short-term profits," Smith said.
The sheriff said the conditions at the prison had nothing to do with this riot, and he said there was probably little CCA could have done to stop the disturbance.
"I think this kind of thing can happen anywhere at any time," he said.
In a brief statement, CCA spokesman Steve Owen said the company would work with authorities to investigate what happened.
CCA houses about 75,000 offenders and detainees in more than 60 facilities around the country, according to its website.
In 2004, inmates at a different CCA prison in Mississippi set fire to mattresses, clothing and a portable toilet. No injuries were reported. The company announced after that disturbance that it would add about 25 guards at the Tallahatchie County facility.
In Idaho, violence at a CCA-run prison has prompted federal lawsuits, public scrutiny and increased state oversight. In 2010, Vermont inmates being held at a CCA prison in Tennessee were subdued with chemical grenades after refusing to return to their cells.

http://news.yahoo.com/sheriff-gang-started-prison-riot-mississippi-180946730.html
gang related... of course...good thing propaganda is legal now...
 
ruh roh raggy...

What Started a Mississippi Prison Riot? Depends on Who You Ask


“This could have happened anywhere, anytime,” Mayfield told the Associated Press.
Prison watchdogs say that’s not necessarily true. What little independent information that has emerged from inside Adams County Correctional Center suggests a different story—one of mistreatment and abuse at the hands of guards that may have reached a breaking point.
At 5 p.m. on Sunday evening, an inmate reportedly phoned a local TV station with a cell phone, sending photos to confirm that he was indeed held inside the facility.
“They always beat us and hit us,” the prisoner told the local reporter. “We just pay them back. We’re trying to get better food, medical (care), programs, clothes, and we’re trying to get some respect from the officers and lieutenants.”
According to the news report, the prisoner said that nine guards had been taken hostage.
In an interview with Colorlines.com, Patricia Ice, who directs the legal program at the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, said that her organization has heard reports of neglect and abuse inside the Adams County facility. Ice said she received a call last month from a California woman who reported medical neglect of a family member in the jail.
“I got a complaint from a family member saying that a man had lung cancer and was being ignored,” Ice said. “Three weeks earlier, he was examined by a doctor and diagnosed with lung cancer but had not received any treatment at all.”
Prisoner’s rights advocates say that the accounts of these inmates are consistent with documented conditions in private prison facilities around the country.
“Private prisons have a financial incentive to spend as little as possible in order to make a greater profit,” said Bob Libal, of Grassroots Leadership. Libal is a longtime advocate for the rights of prisoners held in private facilities. “They skimp on staff salaries and training, which leads to high turnover rates. They spend as little as possible on services in order to maximize profit. This mentality leads to poorly run facilities where abuse, neglect, and prisoner uprisings are common.”
The Corrections Corporation of America operates over 60 jails and detention centers in 20 states with the capacity to hold over 90,000 people. The facilities have a track record of violence.

http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/05/corrections_corp_of_america_prison_riot_mississippi.html
 
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