Private company owns Oklahoma prison where 4 inmates killed

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Private company owns Oklahoma prison where 4 inmates killed
Sean Murphy, Associated Press
Updated 6:12 pm, Monday, September 14, 2015

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Current and former officials defended Oklahoma's use of privately run prisons Monday following a weekend melee at one of the facilities that left four inmates dead and several others wounded.

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The prison is one of three private facilities housing nearly 6,000 of Oklahoma's prisoners. That company, Nashville, Tennessee-based Corrections Corporation of America, and another that runs a 2,500-inmate facility in Lawton, oversee dozens of facilities and tens of thousands of prisoners nationwide.

A rash of violence at some privately-run Oklahoma lockups is prompting questions about whether there is adequate staffing and oversight.

"These are just holding pens for human beings. They're terrible and they should be stopped," said Rep. Richard Morrissette, an Oklahoma City Democrat and a longtime opponent of private prisons. "Making a profit over someone else's misery is inherently wrong, but it's not going to stop because look how much control and influence they have."


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Weekend-clash-at-Oklahoma-prison-leaves-4-dead-4-6502692.php

[silvershadow]

1. Looks like they failed to keep them safe from other prisoners. I say the private companies

pay out of their coffers for any lawsuits, rather than the public. They took on that responsibility presumably when they signed that contract. If I were in that jurisdiction i would be demanding it.

[TexasTowelie]

2. The corporation refers to it as cost cutting to improve their profit margins.

Not really, but I wouldn't doubt that comes to mind.

[99th_Monkey]

3. "...it's not going to stop because look how much control and influence they have."

I'll go there.

The Private Prison lobbyists have their clear choice for Democratic candidate
for POTUS, and it's NOT Bernie Sanders.

[starroute]

5. I already went there a couple of days ago

One more time ...

https://theintercept.com/2015/07/23/private-prison-lobbyists-raising-cash-hillary-clinton/%C2%A0%E2%80%A6

As immigration and incarceration issues become central to the 2016 presidential campaign, lobbyists for two major prison companies are serving as top fundraisers for Hillary Clinton. . . .

As we reported yesterday, fully five Clinton bundlers work for the lobbying and law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison company in America, paid Akin Gump $240,000 in lobbying fees last year. The firm also serves as a law firm for the prison giant, representing the company in court.

Akin Gump lobbyist and Clinton bundler Brian Popper disclosed that he previously helped CCA defeat efforts to compel private prisons to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests.

[IDemo]

4. I can't believe this company is still in business

Idaho kicked them out and regained state-run control after CCA demonstrated they were not up to the task.

[billhicks76]

6. Hillary Reps For Them

What a disgusting way to claim to be humane. You can't get any lower than doing the bidding of private prisons. I will never vote for her. She is a Bush inside.

[Judi Lynn]

8. Idaho corrected its mistake of allowing them there in the first place. Good! n/t

[Scuba]

7. Hillary must be so proud!