AZ losing 3 million + per year and costs have gone up 14% for housing AZ prisoners since turning the

[lonestarnot]

business of housing criminals over to private prisons. Can't find a link for it at local news station where I heard it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/private-prisons-buying-state-prisons_n_1272143.html

[panader0]

1. I have to rec this

[lonestarnot]

2. No you don't. All you have to do is die and pay taxes, unless of course you're nitwitmitt rmoney.

[Peepsite]

3. I thought they were housing people in tents

To save money.

[NMDemDist2]

19. that's just Maricopa County Jail

courtesy of Sheriff Joe

[Live and Learn]

4. Amazing, people were so upset about being forced to pay private health insurance companies

but there is hardly a comlaint about our tax payer dollars funding private prisons. This trend is digusting and dangerous.

[lonestarnot]

6. Well when it becomes profitable to keep people in a pen. then yep, dangerous. R Pie Hole even saves

on A.C. with his fucking tents in 114 heat as is forecast for tomorrow.

[Zalatix]

13. I've questioned the sustainability of private prisons many times.

[CrispyQ]

14. I believe there's a serious disconnect with people.

I think when they hear that some institution has been privatized, they think that the taxpayers no longer pay for it.

I believe there are a huge number of people who actually think this.

[Nevernose]

5. When will people learn

That privatizing government work is invariably more expensive? Granted, the pensions are less in a privatized system, but the profits always cost more in the long run. Look at our military for example A.

[freshwest]

8. +1,000

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. People have been brainwashed into thinking the public sector can do things cheaper...

...even though it's expected to do the same thing with a profit instead of at cost from the same fund.

We need to start saying, "Eliminate the middle man".

[12ZTR]

7. Red state genius

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/08/06/641971/private-prisons-cost-arizona-35-million-more-per-year-than-state-run-prisons/

[tmponlinestore]

10. Spam deleted by Warren DeMontague (MIR Team)

[Mr Dixon]

11. SMH

Private prisons is just a Wall Street profit shell game, and don’t forget the lobbyist in AZ that support that crazy witch governor, the Game is rigged and the poor and middle class are now viewed and profits. The more people I can imprison the more money I make “isn’t that just grand?”

[malaise]

12. From a kpete thread

[rustydog]

15. well duh! Their contracts stipulate

the jails they run (on the taxpayer dime) must maintain a certain occupancy rate.

Then those damn operating costs keep going up you know....gotta charge more. how much does CCA CEO make over say, a jail administrator on the Taxpayer teat?

[librechik]

16. well, duh, the #1 reason "we people" even ask for a public option is it's cheaper

without the profit taking, as well as reliable. What, the military isn't reliable? Say that to your watercooler opponents. They can't beat that.

Yes, Arizona Legislators and Voters, enjoy being robbed by the private sector because you have been fooled into thinking government is Satan by soulless profiteers--meanwhile you are demonizing the Real America into a 3rd world country.

Morons.

[lindysalsagal]

17. And they wanna do the same thing to the schools.

Maybe people will care if it's their little darlings, rather than felons.

[nanabugg]

18. Wonder how many state jobs the prisoners have taken away for AZ law-abiding citizens?

And I wonder how much the private entity makes from those slave laborers?