Private prison worker tried to have inmate murdered: report

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/private-prison-worker-tried-to-have-inmate-murdered-report/



Private prison worker tried to have inmate murdered: report
Joshua Holland, Moyers & Company
01 Oct 2014

In July, we told you about the nightmarish experience that Michigan officials had after they turned over prison food services to a private company, Aramark Correctional Services.

The private prison industry had paid for a bogus “study” suggesting that states which privatized their prisons would reap huge benefits — with better services delivered at lower costs — but Michigan found that the contract with Aramark, which pays its employees an average of $11 per hour in compensation, was dogged by incidents of its workers smuggling in contraband, having sex with prisoners, serving rancid food that sickened inmates and running out of food (which leads to unrest and is considered a serious security issue in a correctional facility).

The private prison company had been plagued with problems in other states as well. Alan Pyke reported for ThinkProgress that Aramark’s “poor handling of a food contract was blamed for causing riots in a Kentucky prison in 2009, and issues similar to the ones Michigan officials report have cropped up in Aramark-run prison kitchens in Florida, Ohio and Indiana.

Our July post relied in part on some intrepid reporting by Paul Egan of the Detroit Free-Press. And last week, Egan followed up with another eye-opening story about Aramark’s disastrous track record…

[Hoppy]

1. WatzamatterYuuz? THis makes perfect sense.

Kill 5% of the inmates and the cost to feed prisoners is reduced. Then they can prove to authorities that Aramark service is cost effective.