TYT: Taxpayers Spending 1 Billion Dollars on Georgia Prisons

[alp227]

Run time: 06:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHx7JftWVFw   Posted on YouTube: January 08, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 309   Posted on DU: January 10, 2011 By DU Member: alp227 Views on DU: 1346

 
Source: Vanita Gupta and Chara Fisher Jackson, "Georgia Prison Strike an Outgrowth of Nation's Addiction to Incarceration." Daily Kos: January 6, 2011.

Gupta is deputy legal director for the national ACLU, and Jackson is legal director for the Georgia ACLU.

[valerief]

1. Wonder what corporate jobs the prisoners do for next to nothing, too. nt

[howaboutme]

2. Privatization always equals corruption

The first rule of government is that any time public money is used for privatization the outcome is never good for the public.

It creates a revolving door of corruption between the "business" and those public employees entrusted to ensure that it is being managed in the public interest. Opportunity for the bureaucrats then becomes about the public getting screwed. It creates bribes and campaign funds to ensure that politicians are working in the corporate interest and never in the public interest.

[TatonkaJames]

3. What ^ said

If people don't believe the level of corruption in our government then they should
read their local newspaper. In it they will find each year how many of the cities and
states officials are brought up on charges of taking money.
In my state the mayor of one town went to jail for taking money. Someone wondered how
he could accumulate a home in his town, a new shore home and $500,000 boat within a year of being elected.
Well, he's incarcerated now and when he gets out of jail he'll make more money from idiots paying to
hear him speak or go into politics again like Marion Barry, which shows the stupidity of people voting for a criminal.

Now this goes from local to state level to federal. When you get to the federal level you're
talking MILLIONS of dollars. How many rep's have we seen imprisoned over the years or their
friends who took the rap for them ? Would you do 5 years in a golf club knowing when you come out you will
have a billion from silver deals you've scammed ?

I'm still amazed the Bush administration wasn't in the least concerned about $9 BILLION dollars that went missing
at the beginning of the Iraq war. When you place a 24 year old fresh out of college in a position that had his
head spinning with fear of not knowing what's going on when pallets of money were being delivered and moved around so fast
it was easy for the money to be hauled off and put in an overseas account to be split later.

Conspiracy theory or paronnoia ? Maybe, but the record of all the corruption for all these people is there as proof
they are thieves.

So yeah, it's never good. That's why they spend a hundred fifty million of their own money like Meg Whitman did to get elected.
To serve her state and country ? Hah ! They go from business to government to business again after they change the laws to make
their businesses more profitable and deregulated.

But I digress.

[howaboutme]

4. Every time I hear

that BS and accolades from and about politicians "serving their country" it makes me physically ill. The longer they are in office the more opportunity they have to steal.

Don't forget the 2.3 TRILLION dollars that Rumsfeld said were unaccounted for at the Pentagon just before 9-11. Coincidentally the area of the Pentagon that had the records for much of it was destroyed on 9-11 and many of the budget analysts killed. Just a coincidence that the story died after 9-11.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kpWqdPMjmo

[TatonkaJames]

5. Well, I see...

we're on the same page ! Makes for a better Universe knowing there are others out there !

[Independem]

6. Georgia Prison List

Here is a list of all the Georgia Prisons. If anyone has information on the visitation rules (dress code, how much money you can bring in, visitation times, hotels in the area, etc.) feel free to post here. 2006
Arrendale State Prison

Augusta State Medical Prison

Baldwin State Prison & Inmate Boot Camp

Autry State Prison

Bostick State Prison

Bullouch Co. Correctional Institution

Burruss Inmate Boot Camp

Calhoun State Prison

Carroll Co. Correctional Institution

Central State Prison

Clarke Co. Correctional Institution

Clayton Co. Correctional Institution

Coastal State Prison

Coffee Correctional Facility (Private Prison)

Colquitt Co. Correctional Institution

Coweta Co. Correctional Institution

James Correctional Facility (Private Prison)

Decatur Co. Correctional Institution

Dodge State Prison

Dooly State Prison

Effingham Co. Correctional Institution

Floyd Co. Correctional Institution

Georgia Diagnotic & Classification Prison

Georgia State Prison

Gwinnett Co. Correctional Institution

Hall Co. Correctional Institution

Hancock State Prison

Harris Co. Correctional Institution

Hays State Prison & Inmate Boot Camp

Homerville State Prison

Jackson Co. Correctional Institution

Jefferson Co. Correctional Institution

Johnson State Prison

Lee State prison

Lowndes State Prison

Men's State Prison

Metro State prison

Milan State Prison

Mitchell Co. Correctional Institution

Montgomery State Prison & Inmate Boot Camp

Muscogee Co. Correctional Institution

Phillips State Prison

Pulaski State Prison

Richmond Co. Correctional Institution

Rivers State Prison

Rogers State Prison

Rutledge State Prison

Scott State Prison

Screven Co. Correctional Institution

Spalding Co. Correctional Institution

Smith State Prison

Sumter Co. Correctional Institution

Telfair State Prison

Thomas Co. Correctional Institution

Troup Co. Correctional Institution

Valdosta State Prison

Walker State Prison

Ware State Prison

Washington State Prison

Wayne State Prison

Wheeler Correctional Facility (Private Prison)

Wilcox State Prison

http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=186553

Florida’s privatization of mental health services Florida Trend

GEO Care, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of The GEO Group, Inc.

Privatized Prisons & Mental Health, Thats Crazy.


http://people.forbes.com/profile/george-c-zoley/36580
http://www.geocareinc.com/news.asp

Crime has been Down but In recent decades the U.S. has experienced a surge in its prison population, quadrupling since 1980, partially as a result of mandated sentences that came about during the "war on drugs."

[Independem]

7. Nation's Indigent Defense Systems

Georgia's problems are long-standing. Twenty years ago, The National Law Journal, in a six-month investigation of the defense of capital murder defendants in six Southern states, including Georgia, found poorly trained and underpaid lawyers in a hodgepodge of standardless systems with actual disincentives to effective representation.

Georgia, however, seemed to turn a corner in 2003 when the governor signed into law the Georgia Indigent Defense Act. The law created a statewide network of public defender offices and an Office of Georgia Capital Defender to represent death penalty cases.

But state funding has never kept pace with the need, triggering the recent round of lawsuits. "All of the promise we had from this new public defender system is just evaporating," Bright said.

http://www.schr.org/action/resources/georgia_murder_case_shines_spotlight_on_nations_indigent_defense_systems

Public Defender Offices Nation wide are underfunded, but Prisons get Hundreds of Millions, Screwing the puplic at will is a money maker, totally out of control business for profit and ramped corruption.

[Swagman]

8. privatisation is the biggest scam ever foistered on the people

the mantra that private companies can do it cheaper. They have NEVER done it cheaper. I hate it with a vengeance.

[Roy Rolling]

9. Cheaper?

It makes no sense. How can a for-profit group deliver cheaper services than a non-profit group? The for-profit group must take out PROFIT from the operation that the non-profit group does not.

The myth is only sustained if one buys into the premise that is being hammered home by right-wing exploiters: "government workers are less productive". Which, to a certain extent may be true in context---desperate private workers will do anything and prisoners will work for nothing as required by law.

By that same definition, Chinese prison labor and unpaid child labor is very productive, too. But at what social cost? That is something business does not care about.

[howaboutme]

11. It is a huge danger to our society and the USA power structure

It puts unelected corporate interests on a power par with government. They become partners and we become more serf like. Corporations already are beginning to retain law enforcement powers with speed camera administration and in the criminal justice system.

Anytime corporations get power in government it leads to cronyism and revolving doors with bureaucrats that inevitably will cost taxpayers because of corruption and abuse. Government managers will play the system with our tax money so that they can retire early and get plum jobs with the contractors that they administer. Politicians will get campaign donations. We need to demand an end to expansion of the public private partnership which is a license to steal our tax dollars.

[RavensTown]

10. Unbelievable