WH won't renew contracts with private prisons
Briefing on now - Susan Rice speaking
= new reply since forum marked as read
Execution of criminal penalties is an exclusive and inherent STATE function that should never be sub-contracted to private interests.
-Laelth
"privatized". "Privatized" doesn't sound nearly as nasty as what we have under "profitized" prisons.
Anything that says PRIVATIZE or when mentioned in a conversation, I immediately say PROFITIZE
Same goes with REGULATIONS, I use PROTECTIONS
Putin (Pooo Tin), I say Put In, as in bend over, which Pendejo45 did a lot.
You're Welcome.
This one will come in handy, too! Thanks!
Never liked the idea of for-profit prisons -- I mean, what happens when there are too many law abiding and acquitted people to fulfill your quotas?
rocktivity
Great news, the man is moving fast!
when a bunch of guys burst into a tavern, read a legal announcement about a whaling ship that can't depart for a months-long voyage because it's short-staffed, and proceeded to haul the youngest men out of the place -- despite one young man's protests that his dining partner was his pregnant wife.
rocktivity
making it too easy for WHN* to reverse course. We need to get private enterprise out of the incarceration industry. No way people should be profiting off of prisons.
*WHN=what's his name 
Last edited Sat Feb 13, 2021, 02:04 PM - Edit history (1)
when profitability depends on spending as little on the prisoners as possible while NEEDING as many prisoners as possible. All privatized prisons should be banned.
rocktivity
He is literally the only Dem in congress I support a primary challenge against (unless Feinstein tries to run yet again and stay in the Senate until she is less than 2 and a half years short of being 100 years old).
Cuellar is in a safe Blue district, it has never once elected a Rethug in history.
We need to run a good centrist (the only ones who have run the last 2 times are far left Berniecrat types who cannot get elected there) who actually believes and supports our platform. In the last full congress before this one that just ended, Cuellar also voted with Trump almost 70% of the time.
Besides being extremely anti-LGBTQ (he is completely against LGBTQ rights to marriage and also opposes other protections for us), he is A - rated by the NRA, anti-immigrant, and a forced-birther (what I call pro-lifers) who votes that way. Cuellar and Dan Lipinski (who lost) were top targets of EMILY’s List in the 2020 Democratic primaries.
there is this:
(Cuellar endorsed, campaigned for, and fund-raised for a Republican RWNJ, racist, climate-change denialist, John Carter (who beat Democrat MJ Hegar, who went on to lose to Cornyn for Senate in 2020)
Onward Together is an American political action organization founded in May 2017 by former U.S. Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to fundraise for progressive political groups including: Swing Left, Indivisible, Color of Change, Emerge America, and Run for Something.
Private Prison Democrat Backs Private Prison Republican at Big Money Fundraiser
https://www.indivisiblehouston.org/private-prison-democrat-backs-private-prison-republican-at-big-money-fundraiser/
It’s rare to see Democratic incumbents raise money for Republican politicians and vice versa in any election cycle, but it’s particularly rare to see in 2018, a year when the House and Senate are up for grabs and there are heated elections all over the United States. Yet that’s just what we’re seeing here in one congressional race in Texas.
A Politico explains:
WITH CONTROL OF THE HOUSE IN PLAY … DEMOCRATIC TEXAS REP. HENRY CUELLAR invited supporters to a breakfast fundraiser for REPUBLICAN TEXAS REP. JOHN CARTER this morning in San Antonio at Mi Tierra Cafe. The invite sent from a Cuellar political staffer links to a “John Carter Conservative for Congress” contribution page with donor levels up to $2,700. Cuellar’s decision to raise money for Carter stands out at face value because he is raising money for the opposition. But the peculiarities don’t end there. Carter’s opponent, MJ Hegar, is a strong candidate running a powerful effort and has the endorsement of the Blue Dog Coalition… a group backed by non other than Cuellar himself.
So what gives? Private Prison lobbyists, apparently. Cuellar and Carter are the #2 and #3 congressional recipients of private prison industrial complex cash (the #1 recipient, John Culberson, is also in the Texas House delegation). Geo Group, the largest player in the $3 billion private prison industry, is the largest provider of immigrant detention.
As Dallas Morning News reported:
“GEO has come under scrutiny by immigrant rights organizations for alleged mismanagement and abuse in detention facilities. GEO faced class-action lawsuits in which detainees alleged that they were forced to work. In a GEO facility in California, three detainees died in custody. The American Civil Liberties Union accused GEO of denying detainees food, water and bathroom access.”
Cuellar’s dedication to private prisons and manufacturing immigration problems in league with Republicans to benefit his own campaign coffers is a recurring theme in his congressional career. Earlier this year, he was utilized as a stooge representative by the office of Senator John Cornyn to resurface an old immigration lie in order to present a straw man argument on family separation, all while incentivizing the separation of families. That lie began long ago, in 2014, when Cornyn and Cuellar initially touched base on the issue. Cuellar claimed in the aftermath of the fundraiser that he was merely attending the event, but the fact that his staff sent out the email betrays his motivation to assist Carter directly. Equally hollow is Cuellar’s claim that “friendship is more important than partisanship”; the only thing worse than bitter divisive partisan infighting getting in the way of policy progress and justice is when a Republican and Democrat work together to hurt people and uphold a crooked industry that shouldn’t exist.
snip
"GEO GROUP GAVE GENEROUSLY TO TRUMP" to run lucrative detention centers
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212276389
PRIVATE PRISON COMPANY GEO GROUP GAVE GENEROUSLY TO TRUMP AND NOW HAS LUCRATIVE CONTRACT
Spend Money to Make Money
https://www.newsweek.com/geo-group-private-prisons-immigration-detention-trump-596505
On August 19, the day after Yates' announcement, GEO Corrections Holdings Inc., a subsidiary of the GEO Group, donated $100,000 to the pro-Trump PAC Rebuilding America Now. Then, on November 1 —seven days before the presidential election— it gave another $125,000 to the organization.
In addition, GEO Corrections Holding Inc. had donated $200,000 to the Senate Leadership Fund, a Republican PAC, on September 27, 2016, and $100,000 to the Conservative Solutions PAC on April 17, 2015.
GEO Group's top recipients (All of Congress)
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.php?id=D000022003&type=P&sort=A&cycle=2018
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.php?id=D000022003&type=P&sort=A&cycle=2016
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.php?id=D000022003&type=P&sort=A&cycle=2014
Private Prison Campaign Cash Still Welcomed by Some Democrats in the Trump Era
https://rewire.news/article/2018/09/14/private-prison-campaign-cash-still-welcomed-by-some-democrats-in-the-trump-era/
No congressional Democrat has received more financial backing from private prisons than Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), who has taken $88,990 from GEO Group and CoreCivic America since 2012, according to Open Secrets. Cuellar, who has voted in line with the president 68.9 percent of the time, has received more campaign cash from GEO Group in 2018 than any congressional lawmaker but Rep. John Culberson (R-TX). Almost all of Cuellar’s private prison campaign cash over the past six years has come from GEO Group, which has a history of in-custody deaths and other abuses. Cuellar’s office didn’t answer questions submitted by Rewire.News about the Democrat’s acceptance of private prison campaign money.
snip
