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The Biggest Prison Profiteer Of Them All (Original Post) damnedifIknow Nov 2013 OP
Thanks, good watch . orpupilofnature57 Nov 2013 #1
ALEC once again! This toxic Koch think tank really needs to GO. BlueCaliDem Nov 2013 #2
Our media ARE the Koch brothers and their ilk. We don't have a media protecting us. The media valerief Nov 2013 #4
As do the police, as does the justice system, as does the congress, A Simple Game Nov 2013 #6
hi franciskouasi Nov 2013 #3
Welcome to DU! valerief Nov 2013 #5
welcome to DU gopiscrap Nov 2013 #7
Besides prisons dotymed Nov 2013 #8
Shame on America for allowing this to go on. Scuba Nov 2013 #9

BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)
2. ALEC once again! This toxic Koch think tank really needs to GO.
Sat Nov 16, 2013, 09:23 AM
Nov 2013

It's astounding to me that our media are fixated on a website and keep hammering on website glitches while ALEC is slowly infesting our country, state by state to the detriment of the average American taxpayer.

What's also startling? Except for Bill Nelson of Florida, all the others (as far as I saw) were Republicans - the "Big Gubment is Evil" people who want to cut spending on programs our poor and working poor need, but who have no problem siphoning off taxpayer money in massive amounts to private business. It's shameful.

valerief

(53,235 posts)
4. Our media ARE the Koch brothers and their ilk. We don't have a media protecting us. The media
Sat Nov 16, 2013, 09:29 AM
Nov 2013

protects them.

A Simple Game

(9,214 posts)
6. As do the police, as does the justice system, as does the congress,
Sat Nov 16, 2013, 12:00 PM
Nov 2013

as does the President...I'm beginning to sense a pattern...

dotymed

(5,610 posts)
8. Besides prisons
Sat Nov 16, 2013, 12:48 PM
Nov 2013

CCA also runs very profitable probation services in many places. They lie to probationers so they can be "legally" violated. This ends in incarceration for the many people who "violate" their probation.
In Tn., they are very lucrative, have many judges and lawyers as investors and almost anyone who goes to court gets (at least) probation, to start with...

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