Private Prison Riots: Coming Soon To A Wisconsin Town Near You?

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http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/2012/06/private-prison-riots-coming-soon-to.html


Scott Walker has a long standing love affair with privatization, which is to be expected given the fact that he is nothing more than a corporate stooge, a figurehead of a governor while his corporate masters pull his strings.
As a state legislator, Walker was a cheerleader for privatizing the state prison system.

As Milwaukee County Executive, Walker privatized many parts of the county. He also developed a modus operandi to do so. He would arbitrarily claim a fiscal emergency, which was usually contrived if not an outright falsehood. Then to "balance the budget," he would lay off several workers, usually focusing on one department. This would leave said department so understaffed that they were doomed to start failing. He would then use their failing performance as a rationale to privatize said service, usually to a campaign donor.

He did this when he privatized the janitorial services at the courthouse, giving the contract to Edward Aprahamian, a campaign donor. He laid off hundreds of parks workers and gave that work to KEI, another campaign donor (and one tied up in Walkergate). He did the same thing with security guards, giving that contract to GS4, otherwise known as Wackenhut.

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