AZ review shows private prisons cost more - So legislature ends the study.

[kpete]

FRI MAY 04, 2012 AT 03:27 AM PDT
AZ review shows private prisons cost more. So legislature ends the study.
by Mother Mags

If you're a state hellbent on turning corrections over to the for-profit prison industry, what do you do when an annual survey shows that private jails are often more expensive than the old fashioned public variety? Especially if, by law, the state may contract for private prisons only if they prove to be less expensive? Simple, just eliminate that pesky study.

Buried in the $8.6 billion budget proposal passed at the state Capitol this week is a plan to "eliminate the requirement for a quality and cost review of private prison contracts."

It means there would no longer be an annual review of how private prisons operate.
CBS5.com http://www.kpho.com/story/18143695/state-lawmakers-look-to-ease-oversight-on-private-prisons

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/04/1088662/-AZ-review-shows-private-prisons-cost-more-So-legislature-ends-the-study-

[Scuba]

1. Next: "Jobs in Jail", where corporate police pick people up off the street...

... and take them to these corporate jails where they'll be sorted according to what kind of work they can do, then assigned to companies like US Senator Ron Johnson's (R-Wi) company, PACUR. Driving down labor costs while keeping jobs in America!

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. You've got it ...

And the model was created just over 200 years ago, when African-American Freemen were "arrested" for such crimes as "vagancy" and "public disorder" (while in their homes), and "rented" out to the local plantation owner.

[Scuba]

3. What seems to have changed is that now they prey on all the poor, not just blacks.

[Gemini Cat]

5. Some of the men were "rented" out to coal companies as well.

This was after slavery.

[HiPointDem]

13. +1

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. +1

[ck4829]

4. K&R

[jwirr]

6. WHEN are people going to get it in their heads that "for profit" means just what it says.

[newspeak]

7. it's bad enough of the "for profit" motive

but, politicians, judges getting kickbacks. It's an environment for corruption, while the taxpayers wind up paying more. Not only that, corporations garner more power in the government than "we the people."

[abelenkpe]

8. I'm sure private defense contractors cost far more

as well. Privatisation is a scam that leads to increased government corruption, corporate power and robs taxpayers.

[felix_numinous]

9. For profit prisons are a crime in themselves.

We have got to start calling these people out for what they are--this SHOULD be illegal--the blatant conflict of interests is a crime. When has this country ever had this level of corruption in all of our history?

[RevStPatrick]

11. Plenty of times.

This is nothing new.
It's just that we had brief "golden age" after WWII, which lasted for about a generation.

[felix_numinous]

12. ..

[ZombieHorde]

10. God damn it. nt

[Comrade Grumpy]

15. Arizona. Jesus Christ. What is wrong with that state?

Where batshit crazy goes to retire.

[Solly Mack]

16. That's not shocking is it?

All the more sad for it.

[progressoid]

17. ...

[Zorra]

18. I live in AZ. The state legislators here should be locked up in one of their prisons

just for being too stupid, ignorant, and evil to have any right to exist.

They are an offense against nature, heinous evolutionary throwbacks who threaten the survival of the human race if their genes get any farther in the gene pool.

It's soooo unbelievable how stupid, corrupt, and inefficient they are. This state is way gone beyond broke, and it was this way even before the banksters collapsed the economy.

A day at the state capitol:

This meeting of the Arizona legislature now called to order:

Grunt. Pffffft. hehheh. Eat! Me eat! bfffft. snort. EAAAT!

Voices in unison: Eat gooood! (Scratching) (Banging on chairs!) Where Pearce? Pearce go home? Eaaaat!

Senator I.B Ready: (Grunt)I propose we rename the State Courthouse after my recently departed brother, JT Ready, who sacrificed his life in the service of our great state by murdering unarmed women and babies who were suspected of being librul Mexican foreigners.

Banging on table, Voices in unison: Yea! JT gooood! Kill!!! Eat!!! Eat gooood!

Motion passed.

Now we go home? Voices in unison: Hooome! Pearce go home? Eaaaat! Beeeeer! TeeeeeVeeee! Teeeeveeee! ooo ooo ooo!

Another highly productive day for conservative members of the AZ legislature.

[coalition_unwilling]

21. DUzY for sure! - n/t

[Zorra]

22. It's really not funny.

That was copied and pasted from the minutes of an actual legislative session.

[fascisthunter]

19. yet conservatives claim to be against high taxation

well, you pay more this way. Congrats.

[applegrove]

20. Co-option once again.