{Undocumented} Immigrants prove big business for prison companies.

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Doesn't everything?

What a brilliant idea privatizing prisons was. Can't wait until they screw up, er, I mean, privatize, the Post Office, too.

Aug 2, 4:45 AM EDT

Immigrants prove big business for prison companies

By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ and GARANCE BURKE
Associated Press

MIAMI (AP) -- The U.S. is locking up more illegal immigrants than ever, generating lucrative profits for the nation's largest prison companies, and an Associated Press review shows the businesses have spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying lawmakers and contributing to campaigns.

The cost to American taxpayers is on track to top $2 billion for this year, and the companies are expecting their biggest cut of that yet in the next few years thanks to government plans for new facilities to house the 400,000 immigrants detained annually.


In 2011, nearly half the beds in the nation's civil detention system were in private facilities with little federal oversight, up from just 10 percent a decade ago.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PRIVATE_PRISONS_IMMIGRANTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-08-02-04-45-40

Consistent with the RW and center right idea that Teddy Roosevelt must have been nuts to fight monopolies, which are so efficient, three companies control most of this business.

So, now the taxpayer can pay the cost of the politicians, the cost of campaign matching funds, the cost of the private prisons, the cost of the bribes, er, I mean, campaign donations, owners of the private prisons pay the politicians and the cost of making the owners of private prisons rich. And that is without bribes to judges, etc. that they get for sending innocent people to jail or for giving guilty people more jail time than they would otherwise give them.

And lying turds like John Stossel would have you believe this is both cheaper and better for society as a whole than having government run prisons.

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1. I hate Republican bright ideas

like I hate Illinois Nazis.