Black icon namesake on the board of a huge private prison corp. maxed donation to HRC

[Waiting For Everyman]

Here's what I learned on Twitter yesterday (while looking up the subject of lobbyist Dem super delegates, another disgusting situation), and boy was I shocked right down to my toes. I thought I'd seen cold-hearted arrogance, but this tops everything:


Thurgood Marshall Jr., son of the first black Supreme Court Justice, sits on the board of Corrections Corporation, the private prison giant. For showing up at a couple of meetings, he is paid $178,546 per year, and has maxed out his donations to Hillary For President.

https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/700069893043978241


He is literally making money from slavery, and she is running for President on it.

(I wonder how many hours young black men had to work for free to put that $178K in his pocket, and that max donation in Hill's coffers? Betcha it was a lot of hours.)

Gee, the both of them must care so deeply about the plight of too many black men wasting away in prison. I bet they cry over it into their bank books every night. More likely they laugh over it at the country club.


Here's his bio on Corrections Corp.'s website, posted beside a smiling picture of him:

Thurgood Marshall has served as a director and member of the Nominating and Governance Committee since December 2002. Marshall is a partner in the law firm of Bingham McCutchen LLP in Washington D.C., and a principal in Bingham Consulting Group LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bingham McCutchen LLP that assists business clients with communications, political and legal strategies. Marshall, the son of the historic Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall, has held appointments in each branch of the federal government, including Cabinet Secretary to President Clinton and Director of Legislative Affairs and Deputy Counsel to Vice President Al Gore. In his role under President Clinton, Marshall was the chief liaison between the President and the agencies of the Executive Branch. He serves on the American Bar Association Election Law Committee and serves as a board member of the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation, the National Womens Law Center and the Supreme Court Historical Society, and serves on the Ethics Oversight Committee of the United States Olympic Committee. Marshall earned a bachelor's degree in 1978 and a juris doctor degree in 1981 from the University of Virginia, after which he clerked for United States District Judge Barrington D. Parker.

http://www.cca.com/board-of-directors

Hillary's remarks yesterday:

...
And then finally and so importantly, we need end-to-end reform in our criminal justice system.

Not half measures, but a full commitment with real follow-through. Now this is something we can talk about for hours. In fact I gave my first speech of this campaign in April not far from here, and it was about reforming criminal justice, because the inequities that persist in our justice system undermine our shared vision of what America can and should be.

Our legal system is still, all too often, stacked against those who have the least power, who are the most vulnerable. And we’ve seen the toll it takes on families torn apart by excessive incarceration and children growing up in homes shattered by prison and poverty
...
And let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline. It’s diverting too many African-American kids into the criminal justice system, instead of giving them the education they deserve. We’ve seen a significant increase in police involvement in school discipline, especially in schools with majority-black students.

We’re seeing an over -reliance on suspensions and expulsions. I’m sure many of us remember that horrifying video of the girl in South Carolina being thrown out of her desk and dragged across her classroom by a school police officer. A classroom should be a safe place for our children. We shouldn’t even have to say that, I don’t think.
...
So here’s what I ask of you, hold me accountable. Hold every candidate accountable. What we say matters, but what we do matters more. And you deserve leaders who will do whatever it takes to tear down all the barriers holding you back and then replace them with those ladders of opportunities that every American deserves to have.

I’m also asking all Americans to join in that effort. As Cornell Brooks, the new head of the NAACP said in our meeting this morning – none of this is a ‘they’ problem, it’s a ‘we’ problem, and all of us have to admit that. And you know what, it is not an urban problem, it’s an American problem. Ending systemic racism requires contributions from all of us, especially those of us who haven’t experienced it ourselves. White Americans need to do a better job of listening when African Americans talk about the seen and unseen barriers that you face every day.

"Ending systemic racism"... oh really Hillary? Not likely while you're busy profiting from it via Thurgood Marshall Jr.

Thurgood Jr. openly sitting on the board of this private prison system 100% sickens me. I can't imagine what his father would think if he could see this. So what do you think DU, especially black DUers? Is this ok? Is the person who takes donations like this the one you want standing up for you?

As I see it, if this isn't a GIGANTIC SCANDAL for both of them, then it's the same as admitting that the huge number of blacks in prison is not a problem, everything is just fine as it is, and there's no legitimacy in bringing it up ever again.

IT CAN'T BE BOTH WAYS. Denial only goes so far.

[VulgarPoet]

1. K/R.

Absolutely disgusting.

[Waiting For Everyman]

2. Apparently only you and I and 1 other DUer think so.

Go figure. I know my OPs sink like rocks, but this one is really outrage-worthy.

[roguevalley]

6. It is. There are some who don't give a damn and to think that this is true is disheartening. Thank

you for this important news.

[navarth]

30. You're not alone.

I don't see every post, but something like this I will kick every time. Don't give up the fight.

[JimDandy]

47. Here's another kick to expose this outrage. n/y

[Waiting For Everyman]

49. Thank you guys (all here).

For helping to get this seen by lots of eyes. It's depressing but it's the kind of thing we need to know about.

[SammyWinstonJack]

70. Disgusting on so many levels. NO MORE CLINTONS!

[tblue37]

75. KnR for visibility. nt

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Waiting For Everyman.

[Waiting For Everyman]

5. Thanks,

Uncle Joe and to the additional Rec-ers.

I know.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

4. Jr. on that board is disturbing, to the extreme. :(

That he supports Clinton is telling.

[Divernan]

60. He's the only cough/sellout/cough black on the board

On 09/04/2015: Thurgood Marshall, Independent Director sold 23,587 shares of at $29.013 per share for a total of $684,329

Earlier that year, he'd exercised an option and bought 14,105 shares for $147,820 on the same date he'd sold 3,598 shares for $147,841.

03/30/2015 Thurgood Marshall
Independent Director 14,105 Exercise $147,820
03/30/2015 Thurgood Marshall
Independent Director 3,598 Disposition $147,841
* Date represents the date on which the insider initiated the transaction for $.

http://insiders.morningstar.com/trading/insider-activity.action?t=CXW®ion=usa&culture=en-US

Stock options for board members are a really super-duper way to transfer $$$ to the One Percent, don't you agree, Buffy? Can anyone explain to me how he sold 3,598 shares for market value of $147,841, but was able ON THE SAME DATE to purchase 14,105 shares for $147,820. My understanding would be that Board members are offered options to buy at way below market value.
Pretty sweet, right!


I don't see how this man even identifies as black or with the American black experience. His mother was Fillipino; his current wife is white. He's had a pampered, sheltered, privileged One Percent level life: Georgetown Day School in D.C.; Dalton School in NYC; Phillips Exeter Academy; University of Virginia for undergrad and law school.

His Wikipedia bio describes him as chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation. According to documents filed with the SEC, he is a director serving on the board of Corrections Corporation of America,[1] the largest commercial vendor of federal detainment and prisoner transport in the United States

While his Wikipedia page states he is currently Chairman of the USPS Board of Governors, according to the official website, he is NOT currently a member of the Board. When he held that position, it paid $30,000 per year plus +10,000 per diems to attend monthly meetings.
http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/leadership/board-governors-bios.htm#p=1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Governors_of_the_United_States_Postal_Service

As a trustee of the Ford Foundation, he receives $25,000 per year. The Ford Foundation, the world’s second largest private foundation, denies that its spending of millions of dollars on groups pressuring the federal government for stricter regulation of Internet traffic is connected to its multi-million dollar investments in major tech companies.

Crossover Between Ford Trustees and Industry Moguls
The Ford Foundation’s $10.9 billion endowment aims to promote its social-justice mission.

Its board of trustees serve on committees that set policy for the foundation, with members overlapping in their committee assignments. For example, Ford Foundation president Darren Walker and foundation trustee Robert Kaplan, a Harvard Business School professor and senior director for the Goldman Sachs Group, both sit on the board’s Investment Committee. Kaplan, who also chairs Google’s Investment Advisory Committee, sits on the foundation’s Finance Committee and Education, Creativity, and Free Expression Committee.

As to full-time employment, post law school (no mention of making law review or any distinction as a student) he held a series of assignments/jobs with extremely well-connected Democrats, ending with Bill Clinton.

Early in his career, Marshall clerked for United States District Judge Barrington D. Parker and then served as a Counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy with the Senate's Judiciary Committee; Counsel to Senator Ernest F. Hollings and Senator Albert Gore Jr. with the Senate's Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee; and Counsel to Senator Albert Gore Jr. with the Senate's Governmental Affairs Committee.

He then served as Director of Legislative Affairs and Deputy Counsel to Vice President Al Gore, for whom he had previously worked in the United States Senate and as Deputy Campaign Manager of the Gore For President Campaign in 1988 and as traveling policy advisor on the Clinton-Gore Presidential Campaign.

Marshall came to his current law firm from the Clinton Administration, where he had served since 1997 as Assistant to the President and White House Cabinet Secretary. In that role, he managed White House relations with the executive departments; his responsibilities included organizing cabinet meetings and briefings, compiling a daily update of cabinet department activities, and coordinating responses to natural and transportation disasters.

Marshall is member of the following boards: United States Postal Service Board of Governors [4], Ford Foundation [5], Corrections Corporation of America [6], Genesco [7], The Third Way [8], National Women's Law Center, the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service [9], and the Supreme Court Historical Society [10]. He has been a member of the Ethics Advisory Committee of the United States Olympic Committee [11] since its inception in 2001 and chairs the Advisory Commission of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Election Law [12].

Marshall was born in New York City and earned a Juris Doctor at the University of Virginia School of Law in 1981 and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia in 1978. He graduated from The Phillips Exeter Academy and attended school at Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C. and the Dalton School in New York City.

[WillyT]

7. Huge K & R !!!

[cali]

8. Ugh. Sickening

[Fumesucker]

9. 1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evils

[Fuddnik]

25. Or, as I say....

"Evil is the root of all money".

Big money, anyway.

[senz]

51. Matthew 16:26 For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world

yet loses his soul?

[reformist2]

10. The prison industry is second only to the war machine in its repulsiveness.

[rhett o rick]

93. I agree. nm

[dreamnightwind]

11. Thanks for the OP, pretty damning - eom

[AzDar]

12. Ugh.

[bbgrunt]

13. K n R

[Yurovsky]

14. And people try to say that money doesn't corrupt ...

this should be exhibit A. I'm sure many other people have cashed in on various connections to enrich themselves with no regard to the human costs involved. I expect it out of conservatives... heck, most of them would be proud to be a board member on the Plantation.

I guess I just expect more out of Democrats. When they reduce themselves to such behavior, it just stings of betrayal.

[Duppers]

19. The corruptible are corrupted by money.

A few aren't...like this guy...

[SammyWinstonJack]

71. Love that!

[840high]

57. ..+1

[sarge43]

91. It's the love of money that corrupts

Case in point

[snooper2]

15. I guess no agreed upon talking points for this topic yet

:waitslol:

[Skwmom]

16. What people will do for money. (sigh)

[MaeScott]

41. That is so disappointing. nt

[Bohemianwriter]

17. Now I see reasons for Chelsea's concern trolling...

about releasing tens and hndreds of thousands of cheap slave labor..

And what again has Hillary done for the African American community?

[Duppers]

20. Zactly!

[Kalidurga]

76. I didn't even have to see this or check where the money was...

It was quite transparent what was going on.

[Bohemianwriter]

77. I just got the connection confirmed...

And I still ask the question:

What has Hillary done or will do that Bernie hasn't done or won't do for minority communities?

What I hear is crickets...

[Kalidurga]

78. Hillary actually has the same answers sort of

She talks about legislative issues and when a POC says something about the social issue of racism she says she can't fix that. She is right she can't. Neither can Bernie. Yes, we need to do something about it. No I don't know what except continue to educate people. I don't know what role the government can play in educating people oh wait...something college and maybe something in the K-12 system where we actually stop glossing over the issues of slavery and racism in this country.

[rhett o rick]

101. Clinton represents the culture that has brought us Prisons For Profits.

She accepts their "campaign" money and has long supported strong drug laws and the reduction of welfare help for the poor.

No matter what she says she will never ask Goldman-Sachs to pay for any social justice issues.

[Bohemianwriter]

102. Apparently that's not an issue..

But the myth that Bernie hasn't done anything for civil rights apparently is...according to the Hillary klan...

[SoapBox]

18. Oh good gawd...

The Elites...ruling over the little people.

They make me sick.

[snagglepuss]

21. Disgusting. K n R

[DhhD]

22. The Clinton Administration helped set up the private prison system.

http://www.dunwalke.com/10_Clinton_Administration.htm


http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/050426campus_edleysvision
snip

Thurgood Marshall lecture

To say that Edley, 52, is a passionate proponent of racial equality and equal opportunity in education would be an understatement. He’s known for being zealously obsessive about the issues. So it was no surprise that those matters dominated his eloquent, hour-long speech given as the 2005 honoree at the 16th Thurgood Marshall Lecture and Dinner, held in a packed banquet hall at a Bel-Air hotel on April 21.

The annual lecture honors the legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Marshall and benefits the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.

Edley, co-founder of the Harvard Civil Rights Project, is the first African-American dean of a top-ranked U.S. law school. That he has also served as the adviser to former President Bill Clinton on race and affirmative action makes his message enormously influential and inspiring.
more at link

[Waiting For Everyman]

36. ^^ Holy Cow!!! ^^

That is a ton of super-disturbing information. Every citizen, especially every PoC should check out what's written there.

It's key to any thought of changing the prison system, for sure.

Thank you for posting it!

[DhhD]

87. Lots of Next and Previous Pages that are astounding.

Relationships and baggage from the Clinton's past too.

[Ligyron]

104. Wow, I've been reading those links for the last few hours

Good grief, if what they did to that woman is true, heck, even if one believes half of it (and I personally believe her 99%) - this is fucking criminal.

CFR we knew about but I honestly had no idea about HUD, etc in the Clinton years.

Hillary needs to go and the problem is getting this type of info to POC in time to affect this primary..

Good job! Most important thing I've read all month...

[Fuddnik]

23. Per your request, Hillary. I'm holding you accountable.

No Hillary. No How. No Way!

[Thespian2]

24. K & R!!!

The 1%er will never slap the hand that feeds money into her bank accounts...even Jr.'s...

[speaktruthtopower]

26. There is something unseemly about that.

[onecaliberal]

27. Disgusting to the extreme...

How many more reasons does one need to see she is wholly owned by the corporate machine and will only do what they tell her to do. It's the money, not people stupid.

[LiberalArkie]

28. Lee Fang does put out some very good articles.

[avaistheone1]

29. What a disturbing legacy of Thurgood Marshall (Sr)!!

[navarth]

31. [phone]

[LiberalArkie]

32. That is why there will not be those FEMA concentration camps unless of course they are run

by Corrections Corporation of America.

[Duval]

33. Disgusting!

Just when you think it couldn't get worse. Thank you Waiting For Everyman.

[d_legendary1]

34. For some reason Stephen from Django Unchained comes to mind

Its a thought I'm am not quite comfortable with.

[jwirr]

35. This makes me very sad. Thurgood Marshall was and excellent

man. This apple is a long ways from the tree.

[uponit7771]

37. Why is this important?? People who work on WS donate to Sanders

[99th_Monkey]

40. It wouldn't be nearly as important, if it wasn't for Clinton WH's War on Drugs, mass incarceration

and ending welfare as we knew it.

This is just a continuation of those unfortunate policies, policies Clintons have supposedly
"apologized for".. but not really.

[JimDandy]

46. Yes. Obvious lip service is obvious. n/t

[ananda]

38. I bet Thurgood Marshall Sr is turning in his grave!

Hard to believe the son of a man like that would sit on
a corporate board that condones slavery and is part
of the horrible prison industry that incarcerates Blacks
at an alarming rate.

[wendylaroux]

39. Yuck nt

[postulater]

42. Why am I not surprised at this?

[Truprogressive85]

43. Locking up black men and other POC is a business

what is more disgusting Black people in certain circles are willing to make profit from black suffering than trying to alivate and remedy the pain.

[JimDandy]

44. I wonder if the prisoners know who their jailer is?

But then, Green always trumps Black.

[jhart3333]

45. Thank you for your fine research Waiting For Everyman.

So sad about the results though.

[LoisB]

48. Good post. What is it with these sons? Niger Innis, Thurgood Marshall Jr. Men

who, without their famous fathers, would be nothing.

[Mbrow]

50. k&R

Thanks!

[seaotter]

52. Anyone who supports private fro-profit prisons has no place in the Democratic Party.

Anyone who accepts money from them, should be ashamed of themselves, and run out of the party on a splintery rail.

[Enthusiast]

73. Huge +1!

[kath]

53. Wow. That is sickening

[libodem]

54. I hate politics

But I just can't quit you.

[arcane1]

55. The Congressional Black Caucus PAC that endorsed Clinton also gets for-profit prison money.

It's amazing.

[Hoyt]

56. I don't like these prisons, but don't have a problem with liberals serving on Boards.

I guess some think it would be better if it were just the Ted Nugent and Cliven Bundys on the boards. I'm really not sure a private prison in Louisanna can be any worse than state sponsored chain gangs.

[Divernan]

61. Tremendous financial kickbacks to board members via stock options

See post 60 above. Incarcerating mass quantities of black citizens has been very, very lucrative to Thurgood Marshall, Jr.

[Hoyt]

62. Once again, I prefer someone like him on Boards to Ted Nugent.

[Divernan]

63. It's blood money, whomever is getting paid off to sit on this board

[mhatrw]

95. LOL. Somebody has to take their money, so it might as well be a LIEberal. LOL

He's just taking their blood money so Ted Nugent won't.

And he's helping us all by giving some back to Hillary! HUZZAH!!!

[rhett o rick]

105. You lose your liberal label once you sell out. nm

[Ikonoklast]

82. Political pull via campaign donations so the politicians they own vote to make everything illegal,

thus ensuring a steady flow of convicts, a steady flow of profits, a steady flow of political donations.


Hillary is against decriminalizing marijuana use, I'll give you one guess as to why.

The board membership line is a straw man, and it's been documented that many for-profit prisons are absolute horror shows.

[wolfie001]

58. K & R!!!

[grasswire]

59. and she takes money to "bring them to heel"

I feel sick.

I have visited many prisons as a criminal justice reform activist. I have seen it.

[KoKo]

64. Recommend for Exposure...

Thurgood Marshall's son... Very sad.

[nyabingi]

65. Faced with the many instances in which

Hillary and Bill Clinton have not only conspired to punish and demonize Black Americans for their own political gain, but literally take money from corporations practicing slavery in order to make a buck, it seems many Black supporters of Hillary are willing to overlook most of the outrages and support her anyway. They won't comment on it, think it's irrelevant, and willing to give her a pass on it. What the f-ck is wrong?

I'm sorry but I'm not willing to overlook the fact that someone would call me a "super-predator" who needed to be tamed. I'm not willing to overlook Hillary's pandering to conservatives in the 90's in order to show that they can be cruel and merciless to Black people too. I'm not willing to overlook Hillary's warmongering and her glee at successfully having one of the African continent's most respected leaders (at least among Africans like the late Nelson Mandela) dragged through the streets and murdered. I'm not one of these "I forgive 'em" Black people and I will never forgive Hillary for what she's done to generations, and not once even f-cking apologizing or showing remorse for what she's done.

I grew up in a Baptist church in the south, and I witnessed many a smooth-talking charlatan robbing their congregation blind only to have the members say "Amen" and "we forgive him" when the sh-t hit the fan. This Black love affair with Hillary Clinton reminds me of this, and it makes me realize that some of us are perfectly fine helping others hurt the rest of us. Not saying Bernie Sanders is Black Moses (that would be the late Isaac Hayes), but at least he's never said and done the straight racist sh-t Hillary has.

[Laughing Mirror]

107. Forgive them for they know not what they do

But never expect an apology or an admission of guilt from someone causing so much harm to a people while making them believe it's all for their own good. It's like, "Let's put the past behind us. Forget everything I've ever done. Let's erase the past and look forward. Look at all the promises I make you. I'm your best advocate. I'm your best friend. Your best bet."

Enjoyed reading your post, nyabingi, your sentiments near and dear to me. Thank you for it. Bill Clinton in a recent speech almost seems be laboring under a delusion that he is some kind of Black Moses, so I'm going to go put on the Truck Turner soundtrack on my speakers, now that you brought up Isaac Hayes.

[nyabingi]

108. Thank you

I get so angry when I see that Hillary is still leading among potential Black voters in SC and when talking to other Black people online who are pro-Hillary. I think it's the familiarity that's clouding everyone's judgement and it infuriates me to no end.

My parents are pro-Hillary (with my dad being a little more open to Bernie, my mom thinking it's a woman's turn) but that's mainly because they don't know enough about Bernie yet. Still working on 'em though lol!

Think after work today I'll grab a brew and put on some Isaac too - haven't listened to him in a while! =)

[Laughing Mirror]

109. Familiarity absolutely

Image may play a part too.

The Clintons -- I've watched them through the years -- have developed a mastery at projecting an image of themselves that screams success. We've been through it all, they say. We've risen above it all.

They're masters at getting this image across. They have to. It is what they do. It is their livelihood. It is what they are paid to do. What they are paid outrageously well to do.

Putting aside all the pros and cons concerning their individual records, if you put Hillary beside Bernie in an anonymous line-up in front of me, and, say, I didn't know who they are, and you ask me which of the two represents success, I'd say, well, here's a rich white lady and here's what looks like her plumber dressed-up in a bargain-basement suit. I'd have to say, yes, it's the lady who looks like, breathes success.

But if the category is about character, about integrity, I would give the opposite response. Those qualities have a way of breathing through too.

I know, I fell for Hillary Clinton too, once long ago, when I voted for her in New York in 2000. Felt I had too. After all, there were no other options then. But now there is. And when a new option opens up to me, and it is a better one, I tend to choose the better one. I think most people do, once they know they have an option.


On dance floors decades ago, I could never get enough of that sublime Pursuit of the Pimpmobile track on Truck Turner album, when DJs put it on. That was 42 years ago, my era. Sounds as good, even better today -- no scratches in digital -- now that I've got good sound.

Enjoy your brew!

[TeeYiYi]

66. Sickening...

If for no other reason, this right here is why I've lost that lovin' feeling for Hillary and the status quo. First Chelsea with her 'concern' about reducing the American prison population and now this duplicitous, elitist, one percenter donation crap. They're not even trying to hide it anymore. Just looking at the creepy, melanin challenged members of the CCA board of directors turned my stomach... http://www.cca.com/board-of-directors

Corrections Corporation of America

Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), incorporated in Maryland and headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, is the largest owner of for-profit prisons and immigration detention facilities in the United States. The only larger operators of such facilities are “the federal government and three states,” according to CCA. [1] It is publicly traded in the United States (NYSE: CXW) and had approximately 15,400 employees in 2013.[2] In 2013, CCA was converted into a real estate investment trust (REIT), which will help the company avoid tens of millions of dollars in corporate taxes.[3][4] CCA's revenue in 2013 was nearly $1.7 billion, and it had profits of $300 million, 100 percent of which came from taxpayers via government contracts.[2]

Since its founding in 1983, CCA has profited from federal and state policies that have led to a dramatic rise in incarceration and detention in the United States -- a rise of 500 percent over the past thirty years.[5][6][7] As of 2011, around half of all prisoners in state facilities were there for nonviolent crimes, and half of inmates in federal prisons were serving time for drug-related offenses.[8]

Studies have shown that for many offenses, incarceration has little if any impact on public safety, and that time in prison actually increases a person's likelihood of committing more crimes.[9][10]

According to the Justice Policy Institute: "While private prison companies may try to present themselves as just meeting existing "demand" for prison beds and responding to current "market" conditions, in fact they have worked hard over the past decade to create markets for their product."[11]

Although it claims that it has not lobbied for bills that extend or increase sentences for prisoners, for nearly two decades CCA participated in and even led the task force of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) that pushed bills like so-called “truth-in-sentencing” and “three strikes” legislation as models for states to adopt across the nation. CCA and its hired lobbying firms have spent about $21.1 million lobbying Congress and federal agencies from 1998 to August 2014 on bills relating to immigration, detention, and private prisons.[12] CCA has spent an untold sum lobbying for states to privatize or outsource incarceration responsibilities, and over that same period, it has steadily increased its share of both state and federal prisoners or detainees over the years, to 128,195 prisoners as of 2010.[13]

The company has become a multi-billion-dollar corporation that has been strongly criticized for many aspects of its operations, which amount to two primary critiques: (1) CCA's lobbying and campaign donations have led to federal and state policies and government contracts that fatten its bottom line, often at the expense of the public interest; (2) CCA’s profit-increasing strategies constitute a vicious cycle where lower wages and benefits for workers, high employee turnover, insufficient training, and chronic understaffing can lead to mistreatment of inmates, increased violence, security concerns, and riots. As discussed below, profit-focused measures that affect inmates, such as withholding medical care or inadequate nutrition, add to the volatility of the situation. This, in turn, has led to dangerous working conditions for correctional staff. CCA's history also includes allegations of falsifying records, fraudulently billing Medicaid, violating labor laws, and all around "cutting-corners."
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Corrections_Corporation_of_America#cite_note-2013-10K-2

The for profit prison system, with its graft and campaign finance corruption and racist destruction of lives, is exhibit 'A' as to why I'm feelin' the Bern. How anyone, other than another one percenter, could intentionally vote for Hillary once they realize how deeply, financially invested she and her family are in the incarceration of America is beyond me.

The school to prison pipeline is straight up legalized slavery of the poor and minorities. America has more reasons than ever to still be ashamed of its unforgivably racist history. smh

TYY

[MerryBlooms]

67. Very disappointing and troubling. I feel the private prison industry is a disgrace, but

I doubt it will be scandalous to anyone involved. Way too many people support the private prison industry and there's huge amounts of money being made.

Thanks for the research and post... even though I don't like the results.

Rec & Kick.

[olddots]

68. really sad stuff

Unfortunately I think Americans have been made to think that there is no hope .

[Red Oak]

69. Truly sickening

[Enthusiast]

72. Kicked and recommended to the Max!

[amborin]

74. K&R

[DefenseLawyer]

79. Damn. That's the most depressing thing I've read all day. n/t

[mgmaggiemg]

80. gov should run prisons

[xocet]

81. Unreal... K & R n/t

[PWPippin]

83. Terribly sad, sickening and disgusting.

There is so much wrong with this. How can this be made public common knowledge? I wish black South Carolinians could know about this and all the interconnections before they vote. There is so much about HRC I wish could be better disseminated. Perhaps Hillary supporters won't listen, don't want to know. Still, I continue to send postings to both fence sitters and Hillary.

[monicaangela]

84. Run before you're found out Hillary...

[Merryland]

85. this is bad/sad on so many levels. n/t

[jfern]

86. Probably rewarding Hillary for having her SuperPAC run by David Brock

who ensured that his father got a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court

[kgnu_fan]

88. why people can not see the picture...?

[yourout]

89. Kicking before the censor.

It's bad for Hillary so it will get hidden.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

90. K&R

eyeopening.

[retrowire]

92. sigh* nt

[billhicks76]

94. Sell-Outs Can Be Any Color!

[snort]

96. That's fucked up in a fucked up way.

Like seeing a horse eating meat or something.

[BigBearJohn]

97. oh the webs we weave. K/R

[xynthee]

98. Appalling!

It's so disheartening the number of people willing to sell their souls! And for what, I wonder???

[raouldukelives]

99. K&R Sounds like a couple super predators need to be brought to heel.

But then, there are few predators as large, or as lethal, as organized shareholders.

From systemic racism to safety nets, from clean water to climate change, from health care to decent educations, if it doesn't benefit shareholders, they could care less.

And if it harms shareholders? Watch the hell out. They will use every dollar those investors have given and every backdoor the fiduciary responsibility they individually grant can provide to assure they continue to get richer and that nothing ever gets better for anyone but themselves.

[floriduck]

100. Just another disgusting example.

Some people will never wake up to this crap.

[Orsino]

103. Some money is too dirty for a progressive to touch. n/t

[navarth]

106. Put me down for 'disgusting' on this one. nt

[mntleo2]

110. Ewww!

(sigh) and I was just thinking that voting for her was *better* than voting for any Repug. Just sayin' ...wonder what she has to say about this ... or will she ignore it like she did as a senator to all those low income people who tried to get her to work on support for women and children, allow them to go to college, and stop fraternizing with the likes of Joe Lieberman with their bus tour crowing about how "wonderful" Welfare Reform is (written by Heritage Foundation hack Robert Rector). Gah!

Cat in Seattle