Why This Company Wants You in Prison

[Auggie]

It has something to do with the $1.7 billion they made off the privatized incarceration industry just last year.

“CCA” has become a dirty word.

Kanye West cited it when rapping about America’s class of “New Slaves.” Anonymous invoked it to describe a bad financial investment that undermines justice. And for state after state, the word represents a failed approach to public safety.

And that’s how it should be. Because profiting off mass incarceration is a dirty business. When private prison company Corrections Corporation of America—or CCA—squanders taxpayer money and runs facilities rife with human rights abuses, it’s dragging its own name through the mud.

MORE: http://www.thenation.com/article/176997/video-why-company-wants-you-prison

[Scuba]

1. A national shame.

[zebonaut]

3. Prison for Profit

Corporations are about profits. That means they want more prisoners. Don't forget the "mental health" for profit corporations as well. Another booming profitable industry.

[msongs]

4. aided and abetted by the democratic party usa INC and republicans as well...

democrats should absolutely reject for-profit poor houses

[PeoViejo]

5. The Police have morphed into Press Gangs

The shame. This and Civil Forfeiture are a toxic mix.

[Auggie]

6. What's of particular surprise (to me) is mention of Arizona's immigration law …

the video states it isn't really about identifying/deporting illegal immigrants but a way in which to fill more cells.

This isn't the first instance of judicial and legislation corruption regarding for-profit prisons -- it's well documented in other states.

What scares me is the propensity that more and more corrupt officials -- judges and police -- will be looking to fill quotas in return for favors, political or other. I see violations of civil rights, and stiffer and more unjust state laws, to make the process easier too.

[DeSwiss]

7. Once you accept the reality that we live in a fascist (lite) country.....

...then it all starts to make perfect sense. The needs of the corporation and the needs of the state, are one and the same.

- K&R

[Quantess]

8. K & R