If you keep pulling on the string..

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you wind up at the same stinking pile of shit. It doesn't matter what the 'issue' is....somebody is making money out of it, and that somebody has intimate ties to the corporate government. I recently posted several articles regarding the prison inudustry and the buckets of cash being raked in at the taxpayers expense.http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stillcool47
To my chagrin, I once again realize that I am very late arriving to this party. There are mountains of articles going way back that chronicle the creep of the crud seeping into the 'prison'/'security' industry. The only newness about it, is apparently to me. Greg Palast writes of it in 1999..

September 26th, 1999
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=868

Sources have told The London Observer that just two weeks prior to Garcia's stabbing, a senior employee warned Wackenhut corporate honchos that the one-guard system is a death-sentence lottery. The executive's response, "We'd rather lose one officer than two."

How does Wackenhut get away with it? It cannot hurt the company that it put Manny Aragon, the state legislature's Democratic leader, on its payroll as a lobbyist, and used an Aragon company to supply concrete for the prison's construction. Isn't that illegal? I asked State Senator Cisco McSorley. The Democratic Senator, a lawyer and Vice-Chairman of the legislature's Judiciary Committee, said, "Of course it is," adding a verbal shrug, Welcome to New Mexico.

Wackenhut agreed to house, feed, guard, and educate inmates for $43 a day (£26). But it can't. Even a government as politically corroded as the Enchanted State's realized Wackenhut had taken them for a ride. The state found it had to maintain a costly force of experienced cops at the ready to enter and lock-down prisons every time Wackenhut's "green boots" lost control. A riot in April required 100 state police to smother 200 prisoners with tear gas -- and arrest one Wackenhut guard turned violent. The putative savings of privatization went up in smoke, literally. With low pay for dangerous work, one court official told me, Wackenhut fills the hiring gap with ex-cons who get through lax background checks and teenage guards, some too young to qualify for a driver's license. Some kiddy guards and insecure newcomers make up for inexperience by getting macho with the prisoners, slamming them into walls. "Just sickening," said a witness. Right after the prison opened, a pack of guards repeatedly kicked a shackled inmate in the head. You might conclude these guards needed closer supervision, but that they had. The Deputy Warden stood by, arms folded. The company fired those guards and removed the warden -- to another Wackenhut prison.
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Wackenhut Corporation does not want to be judged by its corrections affiliate only. Fair enough. In March, this column described their other services. We reported that a British Petroleum unit had wiretapped and bugged the home of a whistle blower working with the US Congress. This black bag job was contracted to, designed by and carried out by a Wackenhut team.
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With state after state handing Wackenhut walking papers, what could have motivated HM Prison Service to invite them to operate a UK prison? The Home Office at first denied they offered new work to the company, noting huffily that the UK too canceled a Wackenhut contract, ending their operations at Coldingley Prison on February 1 by "mutual agreement." (In fact, it was not so "mutual." A confidential audit leaked into hands of a prison expert and passed to the Observer accuses Wackenhut of dubious accounting and "total disregard for fundamental tenets of Prison Services financial policy.")
I suggested the Home Office look under the corporate alias, "Premier." Breathless call the next morning: Yes, we have several contracts with Premier, including operation of the Doncaster Prison (AKA "Doncatraz") and the planned Marchington prison. Wackenhut, said the flak, is "a part of the Premier consortium." That's one way of putting it. Wackenhut owns 50% of Premier and controls Premier's UK prison operations.
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=868

George Wackenhut Dies; Security Pioneer
By Matt Schudel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 7, 2005; Page B05
George R. Wackenhut, the founder of a global security company that has guarded U.S. embassies, nuclear power plants and the trans-Alaska oil pipeline as well as neighborhood malls and countless private homes, died Dec. 31 of a heart ailment in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 85.

A hard-nosed businessman who began his career as an FBI agent tracking down counterfeiters and check forgers, Mr. Wackenhut capitalized on the nation's growing concern about corporate and personal security as he expanded his Florida-based company from a four-man operation in 1954 to a multibillion-dollar corporation.-

In 1984, he launched a subsidiary to design and manage jails and detention centers for the burgeoning private prison market in the United States and abroad. In time, Wackenhut Corp. became the nation's second-largest private prison operator. When Mr. Wackenhut sold his company to a Danish firm in 2002, it operated in 54 countries and had $2.8 billion in revenue.
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Frequent rumors that his company was in the employ of the CIA were never substantiated, but Mr. Wackenhut, who was obsessive about high-tech security gadgets in his private life, seemed to relish the suggestion. Several of his senior executives were, in fact, former CIA operatives, and his company's board of directors included former FBI director Clarence Kelly, former National Security Agency director Bobby R. Inman, and former Defense secretary and deputy CIA director Frank Carlucci.

On rare occasions, his company's clandestine work did land in the headlines. In 1991, a U.S. House committee investigated charges that a Wackenhut executive, working for a consortium of oil companies, illegally spied on a whistleblower exposing environmental damage caused by the oil industry. The executive, who had also discussed trying to implicate a California congressman in his sting, resigned immediately after a meeting with Mr. Wackenhut. Wackenhut-operated prisons have had problems as well. In 1999, the company lost a $12 million annual contract to run a jail in Texas when several Wackenhut guards were indicted for having sex with female inmates.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54899-2005Jan6.html

The following short essay provides some insight into the activities of Wackenhut Corporation, the Guardians of the famous, restricted Area 51, and many other restricted areas within the US. Wackenhut Corporation has its roots dating back to 1954, when George Wackenhut and three other former special agents of the FBI formed a company in Miami called "Special Agent Investigators," to provide investigative services to business and industry. Success was such that a year later, in 1955, another company was formed to apply the same philosophy and approach to physical security problems. Three years later, in 1958, the two companies merged under the name of Wackenhut Corporation, in Florida. From the outset George Wackenhut was the President and the Chief Executive in the company. He established the headquarters in Coral Gables. By establishing a wholly-owned subsidiary, in the same year, Wackenhut managed to extend the operation of physical security to the United States Government. The "Wackenhut Services, Incorporated" was created to
comply with federal statutes prohibiting the government from contracting with companies which provide investigative or detective services.

In 1962, Wackenhut extended its operations from Florida to California and Hawaii. Four years later, on January 1, 1966, Wackenhut became an international company, with offices in Caracas, Venezuela, through half ownership of an affiliate. In the same year Wackenhut Corporation became public, and in 1967, floated its shares through the American Stock Exchange.vBy then Wackenhut had expanded through its subsidiaries to 20 strong companies, and its contracts expanded into several countries, and various territories. It was then the single, largest security and investigative firm.

In 1978, by acquisition of NUSAC, a Virginia firm providing technical and consulting services to the nuclear industry, Wackenhut launched into energy and environment management fields. A year later, in 1979, Wackenhut acquired Stellar Systems Incorporation. Stellar Systems Inc. specialised in outdoor electronic security. The main business objective of the company is to provide security and investigative services,
first to the US Government, and then to business, industry, and professional clients.

Through Wackenhut Electronics Systems Corporation, it develops and produces sophisticated computerized security systems to add further edge to its security based services. The major clients of the investigative arm of Wackenhut are the insurance industry and financial firms. They include insurance inspections, corporate acquisition surveys, personnel background reports, pre-employment screening, polygraph examinations, fraud and arson investigations.The wide array of services offered by Wackenhut Corporation includes guard and electronic security for banks, office buildings, apartments, and industrial complexes. Training programs in English and foreign languages apply Wackenhut procedures to individual client needs. It offers fire safety and protective patrols, rescue and first aid services, and emergency support programs tailored to labour-management disputes. Its pre-departure programmes are widely in use by airports and airlines.

With about 50,000 armed security guards, and 20,000 employees, plus over 100 offices and facilities spread across the US, extending to Canada, United Kingdom, Western Europe, the Middle East, Indonesia, central and South America and the Caribbean, Wackenhut is a fearsome force, and an implement to please the desires of its clients, especially the US Government.

The darker side of Wackenhut's ambitious enterprise is its direct involvement in illegal and black projects. In the early 1980s, Dr. John Nichols, the Cabazon tribal administrator, obtained a Department of Defense secret facility clearance for the reservation to conduct various research projects, approached Wackenhut, with a detailed joint-venture proposal to manufacture 120mm combustible cartridge cases, 9mm machine guns, laser-sighted assault weapons, snipe rifles, as well as portable rocket-launchers to be built on the Cabazon Indian Reservation, and in Latin America. Amongst these proposals were details to develop biological weapons.-----------------read more:
Some of Wackenhut's directors, past and present are:

John Ammarell - Former FBI Agent
Robert Chasen - Former FBI Agent
Clarence Kelly - Former FBI Director
Willis Hawkins - Former Assistant Secretary of the Army
Paul X. Kelly - Four star General (ret.), US Marine Corps
Seth McKee - Former Commander in Chief, NORAD
Bernard Schriever - Former member, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
Frank Carlucci - Former Defense Secretary, and former Deputy Director, CIA
Joseph Carroll - Former Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
James Rawley - Former Director, US Secret Service
Bobby Ray Inman - Former Director, NSA; Deputy Director, CIA; Director Office of Naval

Intelligence
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Wackenhut, repackaged and "innocently disguised"
Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 10:52 am
Press Release: Australia Human Rights News

Wackenhut, repackaged and "innocently disguised" attempts comeback

Wackenhut, the parent company of Australasian Correctional Management or ACM, the detention company who lost last year its second bid to run Australian detention centres, has recently re-launched itself under another name on the New York Stock Exchange as a new company, with a new CEO and a new Executive team - and it now attempts a buy-out.

Global Expertise in Outsourcing, or GEO Group Inc. is the new name for Wackenhut Corporation, and its Australian company, formerly calling itself ACM, is now called GEO Australia Pty Ltd

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0403/S00233.htm

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