The facility that Sen. Harris visited today is run by for-profit prison company CoreCivic

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CoreCivic, the second largest private prison conglomerate in the United States, was formerly named the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). Ever wonder why they changed their name? It was because of this blockbuster investigation by @MotherJones.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/cca-private-prisons-corrections-corporation-inmates-investigation-bauer/

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It’s a harrowing read that will utterly shock you. CoreCivic literally changed its name so that you won’t find this article when you Google them. Among their abuses, they tried to save so much money on medical expenses that they made pregnant women bleed out and lose their babies

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CoreCivic was in financial trouble until Trump started the mass incarceration of immigrants. Internment camps are a profitable business for this horrendous company and the abuses we see today have a long history and money trail we ignored until now. We should have prevented this.

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Prisons should never ever be for profit.

This leads to corrupt judges, corrupt staff and prisoners being used to make money.

It becomes not in the companies interest to release people.

Prisoners become pawns in payments.

How many times have we seen this shit and it always ends the same way.

Wonder who owns the stock in this, wanna bet its connected to Trump somehow.

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1. updated with new details

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2. This is not a tough post to REC but a very tough read.

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3. Absolute scumbags, restitution should never be for profit. It leads to all sorts of corruption.

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4. Another for profit prison scandal in AZ.

Doug, the sicko governor of AZ, is only a symptom of a Republican disease that destroys lives without consequences.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/arizonas-prisons-boss-found-in-contempt-over-inmate-care/ar-AAz21K4

Arizona’s prison boss found in contempt over inmate care

by JACQUES BILLEAUD, Associated Press

PHOENIX — A judge on Friday found Arizona's prisons chief to be in civil contempt of court and fined the state $1.4 million for failing to adequately improve health care for inmates.

The decision involving Corrections Director Charles Ryan stems from the state’s acknowledged failure to follow through on some improvements that it promised in 2014 when it settled a lawsuit over care.

The lawsuit said some prisoners complained their cancer went undetected or they were told to pray to be cured after begging for treatment.
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In testimony in late March, Ryan blamed Corizon Health Inc., the health care provider for Arizona's prisons for the past five years, for the failure to make all of the improvements. The company isn't a target of the lawsuit.
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He was criticized in the 2009 heat-related death of an inmate who was left for nearly four hours in an unshaded outdoor holding cell during triple-digit heat. No criminal charges were filed in the death, though more than a dozen corrections employees were fired, suspended or otherwise disciplined.

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5. it sickens me.