AP NewsBreak: Prison company leaving Idaho

[IDemo]

Source: Idaho Statesman

BOISE, Idaho — Private prison giant Corrections Corp. of America says it will leave Idaho after more than a decade.

The decision comes after the company wrestled with scandal and lawsuits surrounding its operation of the state's largest prison.

CCA Vice President Brad Regens notified state officials on Wednesday that the Nashville, Tenn.-based company won't bid on the next contract to run the Idaho Correctional Center south of Boise.

The Idaho State Police, aided by a forensic auditing firm, is currently investigating the company's operations in Idaho over allegations of possible contract fraud and falsified staffing reports.



Read more: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/10/03/2795766/ap-newsbreak-prison-company-cca.html

[Uncle Joe]

1. The U.S. should outlaw the for profit prison industry, there is no good justification for having it.

Thanks for the thread, IDemo.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Absolutely.

There are many areas that should never be privatized because privatization invariably results in corruption. Nowhere has this effect been more evident than in the private prison industry. In addition to providing terrible conditions for prisoners, they are among the major forces lobbying for draconian drug laws, etc. to increase their inmate censuses.

[neverforget]

6. Damn right they should be outlawed. It's a morally bankrupt business model dependent on

keeping people in prison.

[benld74]

2. It would be apropro for them to wind up in one of their own facilities,,,,,,

[duhneece]

3. Good news!!!

Some necessary services should never be privatized. Profit should never be a part of prisons, air controllers, military support, 'public' utilities like water....

[kestrel91316]

4. Or medical care. Get rid of the very concept of medical "insurance". Effing leeches.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. It's a prison break! nt

[Initech]

8. Why don't they just leave, period?

[meow2u3]

10. You took the words right off my keyboard

Even better, the execs should be the inmates--after the prison goes back into the proper hands.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

9. No politician should be allowed to own stock in private prison corporations, medical-insurance

companies, or any company being used to privatize governmental functions.

[kelliekat44]

11. You mean to tell me they didn't cite leaving because of the ACA? nt

[grahamhgreen]

12. Time to re-patriate the prisons.

[Sunlei]

13. wow. so they will not bid on new contract . I guess Idaho still has to honor the past contracts.

I read some states signed 20 or 30 year contracts with the for-profit prisons. ?

[thefool_wa]

14. ALL of these companies need to be dismantled

and BANNED!

The idea that you can make profit per body on prisoners AND have a voice in the state governemnt as to what is illegal and, therefore, increase the number of prisoners and profit for the company is deplorable.

States need to run their prisons themselves.