Inside a Private Prison: Blood, Suicide and Poorly Paid Guards

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/us/mississippi-private-prison-abuse.html

JACKSON, Miss. — On the witness stand and under pressure, Frank Shaw, the warden of the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, could not guarantee that the prison was capable of performing its most basic function.

Asked if the guards were supposed to keep inmates in their cells, he said, wearily, “They do their best.”

According to evidence and testimony at a federal civil rights trial, far worse things were happening at the prison than inmates strolling around during a lockdown: A mentally ill man on suicide watch hanged himself, gang members were allowed to beat other prisoners, and those whose cries for medical attention were ignored resorted to setting fires in their cells.

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The case, which has received little attention beyond the local news media, provides a rare glimpse into the cloistered world of privately operated prisons, at a time when the number of state inmates in private facilities is increasing and the Trump administration has indicated that it will expand their use.

A heartbreaking, harrowing read.

[bronxiteforever]

1. Kick and recommend for visibility of this evil.

What would Doctor King say and do?
Thanks for posting-this must be seen.

[Wwcd]

2. Oh yeah, Jeff Sessions claims more prisons will be built under his watch.

Human rights no longer is a prescident in the US.

Under Trump, America will rapidly resemble N Korea prisons.

I personally believe the increase in prisons would become the new slave labor of the Trump govt.
A modern day Concentration Camp.
This idea dates back to Newt Gingrich's "Contract With America", in a creepy way.


Hoeryong Concentration Camp, North Korea

North Korea is shrouded in mystery, with its prisons just the same.

Kwalliso No 22 is completely isolated, keeping an estimated 50,000 prisoners locked up.

Their crimes vary from criticising the government to being politically unreliable, with entire families of perpetrators sent to the camp.

The inmates are never released.

One former guard revealed that prisoners were like “skeletons”, beaten regularly with many subjected to water torture and kneeling torture.

Reports of human experimentation have also surfaced out of the camp.

It has been reported that the camp was closed down but satellite images have suggested some buildings are still in use.

There are others certainly as inhumane:

South America, Bankok, Russia...

[malaise]

3. This needs to be read by all

Get thee greatest page

Torture is live and well - thanks Bush and Cheney

One of my worries about private prisons is that the goons who own them can also use these to commit assassinations and robberies.

[jalan48]

4. Private prisons. Who can support these monstrosities or justify making money off of prisoners?

[haele]

6. Those who can buy their own reality and prefer to live like elites or pretend they're gods.

Even though in the back of their minds, they realize their lifestyle depends on the preservation of the illusion of leadership and control over everyone else. So they're fearful of a larger, prosperous world that can shatter that illusion of god-hood. Sociopathic cowards trying to be seen as heroes in their own little snowglobe worlds.

They're little more than gangsters themselves. Just with bigger bank accounts, a better address, and a more acceptable social façade.

The real "win-win" answer these animals see by supporting privatized government is to be able to imprison all those uppity lesser people on minor infractions so they either rot in a cell or if they do get out, they're forced to live outside society at large, and make money off them at the same time. Fewer stronger or otherwise uncontrollable people who can topple their play fiefdoms.

Haele

[jalan48]

7. +1

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Kick.

[Tipperary]

9. What lovely human beings all involved are. The prisoners and the guards.

None seem to have the slightest concern for empathy or human life. Ugh. Truly an ugly thing to watch. It is truly sad how so many seem not to have those feelings anymore.