Hundreds of Arizona Inmates to Be Moved Following Riot
Source: AP
About 700 inmates at an Arizona prison were being moved to new locations Friday after disturbances on consecutive days left their housing units uninhabitable.
Nine corrections officers suffered minor injuries in the incidents at the privately run Arizona State Prison-Kingman, which has had a long history of problems. No inmate injuries were reported.
The first disturbance occurred Wednesday at a minimum-security unit, followed by what he described as an unrelated riot Thursday night at a medium-security unit that took several hours to quell, Department of Corrections spokesman Andrew Wilder said.
The agency said the riot caused severe property damage to two housing units, but did not elaborate on what it entailed. The prison remained on lockdown Friday as authorities investigate.
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Management and Training Corp. operates the prison in Arizona and also operated the Tent City prison near Raymondville, Texas where a riot occurred in February of this year. Perhaps the feds should wake up and notice the pattern? 
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Give a predatory capitalist the opportunity to extract more $$$, this is what you get, over & over again.
A few more examples: APS, the monopoly electric co. in parts of AZ, spends heavily to support candidates for the regulatory body that "oversees" their activities.
In SW AZ, and maybe the entire state, in the Counties (outside of metropolitan areas) the fire cos. have been privatized. There appears to be minimal oversight of these for-profit entities. Rural-Metro, which is probably the biggest if not the only one, is owned by a hedge fund that pays the firefighters peanuts and siphons the subscription fees out of AZ to Wall Street. The subscription fee is no cheaper--probably even costlier--than paying a little more in property taxes to fund properly run, publicly accountable public firefighting departments. This hedge fund took R-M through bankruptcy a number of years ago to strip the firefighters of much of their pensions. If you don't pay the subscription fee and they come to your property (even if you don't want them there) for a fire or other situation, you will be billed to the max. Stories are rife about how they show up after a fire has run its course--when they really can't do much--mill around, then bill the property owner tens of thousands. No oversight.
Also in SW AZ, at least one private for-profit landfill takes sewage sludge from CA, for big $$$. It's illegal to spread the stuff on landfills in CA, but not in freedumb-loving AZ. So, not only is AZ now literally CA's toilet, but since this practice began a few years ago, there is a big increase in flies in the surrounding communities, flies carrying coliform, pathogenic bacteria that trace back directly to the sludge-covered landfill. Local officials are scratching their heads wondering what they can do to deal with this situation--apparently nothing.
There are many, many more cases of the grifters at work in AZ. I have no clue when the populace will wake up but am not optimistic that it will be in the foreseeable future. 
