US private prison program rebooted by Trump administration
Source: theguardian.com
The Trump administration has scrapped Barack Obamas program of ending the justice departments use of private prisons, embracing an industry that has come under sharp criticism from civil rights advocates.
Jeff Sessions, Trumps attorney general, on Thursday rescinded a six-month-old directive for the Federal Bureau of Prisons to wind down contracts with prison companies, claiming that the measure had impaired the bureaus ability to meet the future needs of the federal correctional system.
Therefore, I direct the bureau to return to its previous approach, Sessions said in his memo to Thomas Kane, the bureaus acting director.
The move prompted spikes in the share prices of the major for-profit prison corporations, companies which contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to Trumps presidential election campaign and inauguration funds.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/23/trump-revives-private-prison-program-doj-obama-administration-end
The fascist concentration camps are up and running again.
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)It is just another way for a few people to get filthy rich. Trump is rounding up undocumenteds so that we can load up private prisons and the folk at the top will get stinking rich.
FarPoint
(12,309 posts)Privatization of Everything....$$$$$ deregulation.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)If you really want a job you can become a prisoner. Bad food, poor living conditions, little or no health care, no more gyms, no more TV, no more libraries, no more education, and do not forget the unchecked abuse.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)By military contractors I'm talking security and food... like that. Stuff our military always did before and doing a better job for much less money and following military law.
hibbing
(10,095 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)with prison for profit....... mucho $ kickbacks for politicians to be had,,,,, at one time they were charging the prisoners room and board and if couldn't pay they had time added on to their time.
0rganism
(23,933 posts)"The move prompted spikes in the share prices of the major for-profit prison corporations"
tidy batch of money to be had there if you know what's coming, eh? short tourism, go long on the prison industry
sadly, insider trading would be near the very bottom of the list of this demon administration's crimes
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Link to tweet
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Dustlawyer
(10,494 posts)Always a quid pro quo and no agency out to bust them for it.
lark
(23,078 posts)All of the wrong of the Bush WH, plus personal treason as the cherry on top. There is no good coming from these organizations, they are a lot of what's wrong iwth the country, so of course, he' in favor. That's why Sessions hates MJ, that's who's filling up lots of prisons and they want more prisoners. Wonder how much they paid drumpf and Sessions, bet it was substantial.
atreides1
(16,068 posts)Organization
dembotoz
(16,796 posts)not that i have done anything
but eventually they will start rounding some of us up for something
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)legal slavery.
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Formally abolishing slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865.
douglas9
(4,358 posts)BOISE, Idaho (AP) A federal jury says private prison company CoreCivic had a longstanding custom of understaffing an Idaho prison, and that the company was deliberately indifferent to the risk of serious harm that posed to inmates.
But jurors also found that the company, formerly called Corrections Corporation of America, doesnt have to pay damages for the problem because the inmates who sued failed to prove that the understaffing happened in the hours before they were attacked by a prison gang.
The jury deliberated for several hours before handing down the verdict late Thursday evening in a Boise courtroom. Afterward, attorneys on both sides of the case claimed a victory of sorts.
The inmates brought the lawsuit in 2012, contending that CCA deliberately understaffed the prison in order to boost profits, and that the understaffing created conditions that allowed a prison gang to hide in a janitorial closet for several hours before jumping out to beat and stab the inmates.
http://www.courthousenews.com/jury-prison-company-violated-rights-but-no-need-to-pay/