Private Prison Company Allegedly Partnered With Violent Gangs To Save Money

[Tx4obama]

Private Prison Company Allegedly Partnered With Violent Gangs To Save Money

A new lawsuit brought by eight inmates of the Idaho Correctional Center alleges that the company is cutting back on personnel costs by partnering with violent prison gangs to help control the facility. Court documents and an investigative report issued by the state’s Department of Corrections show how guards routinely looked the other way when gang members violated basic facility rules, negotiated with gang leaders on the cell placement of new inmates, and in one instance may have even helped one group of inmates plan a violent attack on members of a rival gang.

Rather than working with corporate headquarters or local authorities to combat the growing threat of gangs, CCA officials at the prison — the state’s largest, with more than 2,000 beds — used those same gangs as a way to control the rest of the inmates and save money:

The inmates also contend that CCA officials use gang violence and the threat of gang violence as an “inexpensive device to gain control over the inmate population,” according to the lawsuit, and that housing gang members together allows the company to use fewer guards, reducing payroll costs.

“The complaint alleges that CCA fosters and develops criminal gangs,” attorney Wyatt Johnson, who along with T.J. Angstman represents the inmates, said in a statement. “Ideally, the lawsuit should force this to come to an end.”

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Rest of article here: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/11/15/1189091/lawsuit-private-prison-company-partnered-with-violent-gangs-to-save-money/

[pnwest]

1. oh, but the private sector is the best way to

handle EVERYTHING!!!! No way a private sector, for profit, laissez faire capitalism based prison system can fucking go wrong. Nah, never happen!

[dchill]

2. Smells like...

A Bain operation.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Where exactly should I feign surprise?

[HiPointDem]

4. kr & not the first time

[Fridays Child]

5. Well, gosh. That plan has absolutely no potential to go horribly, horribly wrong.

[gtar100]

6. Yet another tale of capitalism gone wrong.

When profit is the primary motivation, systems get corrupted. Inevitably.

[Jim__]

7. This should be shocking; but in today's America, it's not.

[Egalitarian Thug]

8. Those pinkos write this as if it were a bad thing.

What could possibly go wrong?

[tavalon]

9. Color me surprised!

Not.

[Fumesucker]

10. To recap: Violent gangs were created by politicians pushing horrible policy for personal gain

Now those same violent gangs have been put in charge of for profit prisons also created by politicians pushing horrible policy for personal gain.

When will someone point the finger at the politicians who engineered this entire fiasco?

[Scootaloo]

11. "Reducing payroll costs"

This is who you're giving your justice system to, America; men who will give the Aryan Brotherhood and Mexican Mafia reign over the other inmates in order to expand a profit margin.

[Scuba]

12. Shame on America for using private prisons. Shame, shame, shame.

[madrchsod]

13. +1......

[progressoid]

14. USA USA USA

[Uncle Joe]

15. Private for profit prisons are a counterproductive, dysfunctional, bordering on evil institution

with no redeeming quality.

If anything in our so called "land of the free and home of he brave" should be illegal that would be prisons for profit; a literal cancer on our society.


Thanks for the thread, Tx4obama.

[Tsiyu]

16. So the government is paying profiteers

to run bootcamps for gangs.

Well, there's a job creation effort if I ever saw one.







All Hail Capitalism!









For-Profit Gangs, soon to be released in a city near you!