Cash-4-Prisons: Corrections Corporation of America Offers To Buy State Facilities

[Dawson Leery]

"Attention states with a corrections budget crunch: the Corrections Corporation of America is here to help. The Huffington Post reports that the for-profit prisons giant sent letters to 48 states offering to buy up their prisons in exchange for a 20-year management contract and the guarantee that the facilities would be at least 90 percent full.

The letter came from Harley Lappin, the former head of the federal Bureau of Prisons who resigned last spring following a drunk driving incident. Lappin wrote that they believed the offer comes at a “timely and helpful juncture and hope you will share our belief in the benefits of the purchase-and-manage model.”

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/cash-4-prisons_corrections_corporation_of_america.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

[Newest Reality]

1. Gee, one wonders

just how the guarantee of 90% full would work out?

More people will just have to go to prison as a way to support this deal in what ever way makes that possible, I guess.

Will they have to advertise and ask people to commit crimes as their civic duty to help support the prisons?

Tougher, really tough, ultra-Draconian laws and super-sized sentencing with no, no, no parole are a must!

America = Where prisoners of the future are born.

[russspeakeasy]

2. This would be a giant step backward.

Everybody better stay home if the prison in their state dips to 80% occupancy. They'll put you in jail for not curbing your dog. (whatever that means).

[Ecumenist]

3. WTF does 'THE GUARANTEE THAT THE FACILITIES WOULD BE AT LEAST 90 PERCENT FULL!!"

mean? More people of color and poor folks without the financial means to defend themselves being sent to the bighouse? MNy answer to that letter is not just no but FUCK NO! California will never be that bad off. A GUARANTEE that the facilities will be AT LEAST 90 PERCENT FULL???!! Horrible premise....PERIOD. People are still HUMAN BEINGS, NOT COMMODOTIES.