Thom Hartmann: Private Prisons Lobbying for more Prisoners?

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Run time: 06:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdJZqmIei-E   Posted on YouTube: June 24, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheBigPictureRT Views on YouTube: 97   Posted on DU: June 24, 2011 By DU Member: thomhartmann Views on DU: 827

 
Amanda Carey, Reporter, Daily Caller.org, joins Thom Hartmann. We're number one! That is...in the size of our prison population. The United States boasts the highest rate of imprisonment than any other developed nation in the world. But that's not enough for some people - specifically the private prison industry. The Justice Policy Institute just released a report detailing how the private prison industry is spending millions of dollars every year to lobby lawmakers around the country to pass tougher laws to throw more people in prison - ideally - private prisons. And it's working. In the last decade - the number of people in prison increased 16% - but the number of people in private federal prisons increased 120%. That's massive profits. In fact - the two largest private prison corporations in the country - the Corrections Corporation of America and the GEO Group - raked in nearly $3 billion in revenue last year. So isn't this a problem in American that corporations have a direct interest in throwing more and more people in prison - shouldn't we be working on ways to keep people of prison?

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[PDJane]

1. Yeah, of course.

That's one of the things that is so wrong with privatiing prisons.

[vanbean]

2. As Roy Rolling says:

"Not private prisons, profit prisons".