Former Prisoner: ‘For-Profit’ Prisons Churning Out Waves Of Violent White Supremacists

[Tx4obama]

Former Prisoner: ‘For-Profit’ Prisons Churning Out Waves Of Violent White Supremacists

The nation’s “for-profit” prisons have been incubating thousands of Aryan Brotherhood gang members and, as their sentences expire, they are prepared to flood the nation. This wave of white supremacist gang members will emerge from the nation’s prisons and engage in a terrorist campaign of targeted revenge which will soon evolve into indiscriminant mayhem and racial violence. At least, this is the warning of an anonymous former prisoner writing for The Daily Beast.

Law enforcement may have a real problem on its hands,” writes a former prisoner who declined to share his name in a piece recently published in The Daily Beast. “They’re being tight-lipped about it, but it’s something they should have been aware of for decades. They had to see it coming.”

“Four people have been killed since the beginning of the year in a series of shootings that appear to be connected to the homegrown jihadists of the Aryan Brotherhood,” Anonymous asserts. He cites the murders of Kaufman County, Texas District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, his predecessor Mark Hass, and Colorado prison chief Tom Clements as examples of bloodshed committed by the Aryan Brotherhood. Reports have linked the assassination of McLelland to his targeting by Aryan Brotherhood members.

The writer goes on to detail the ideology that motivates the average Aryan Brotherhood member: ...

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http://www.mediaite.com/online/former-prisoner-in-the-daily-beast-for-profit-prisons-churning-out-waves-of-violent-white-supremacists/

Related article...

Why I Fear the Aryan Brotherhood—and You Should, Too
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/01/why-i-fear-the-aryan-brotherhood-and-you-should-too.html

A Good Read.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. And worthy of a rec...

esp considering what is happening now in the killings.

[patrice]

2. K&R

[limpyhobbler]

3. k&r

Prisons in general, just any issues or problems with prisons, never get enough attention. The gov't ought to investigate what the heck is going on in these prisons and reform the whole prison system.

[SDjack]

4. The private prison corporations have a mission

to increase crime, which will increase the demand for more prisons.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Prison-Industrial Complex. Where's Eisenhower? nt

[awoke_in_2003]

15. We ignored his warning about the MIC...

Why would this be any different?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Prison Guards Union has the same mission.

Permanent employment and fat union coffers. They likes them their Republicans who are tough on petty crime and crimes from poverty and victimless crimes. White collar criminals don't go to prison anyway, especially banksters, so no point in bothering with those kinds of crime.

[erronis]

17. How many white soft bankers sent to the clinker

Would it take for the establishment (white) to wake up?

How's Bernie Madoff doing recently? Has he joined the "Aryan" Nation? No, I guess their admission criteria are a bit too tight.

Doesn't look like humanity has advanced much over the last 1-2-5 millenia.

[meanit]

27. Prison Guards Union?

I wouldn't think that corporate run prisons would be union. Most unions oppose the privatization of public prison systems.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

30. For example, the prison guards union in California (public employees) is very powerful

Government prisons are still part of the prison-industrial complex. They are just government owned corporations in a way.

Prison construction companies and isolated towns and unions and many different kinds of contractors and sub-contractors and service providers large and small lobby for prison construction and "law and order".

[pscot]

37. Corporate training for Brown Shirts

They'll be marching in the streets before we know it. And thanks to the NRA and the gun makers and our own dear gungeon, they will be heavily armed.

[Demeter]

5. Okay. It now makes perfect sense.

And I don't think it's a coincidence, either.

[dmr]

7. I didn't want to click on the link, but I Googled it. Glad I didn't!

From the Google search page:

CREATIVITY IS A RELIGIOUS CREED .... Dedicated to the Survival, Expansion and Advancement of the White Race. Based on the Laws of Nature, on the ...

So glad I didn't click on your link.

[DollarBillHines]

8. Oh, crap! I didn't see that

Thanks, I will remove that reply.

Again, Thanks,
DBH

[alp227]

9. "corrections system"? More like "moral removals!" N/t

[Number23]

10. But..but CHICAGO!! *sputter* Gangs@! (oh wait, these are gangs too)

There has to be some way to bring up black crime in this thread... give me a minute...

[mountain grammy]

13. eh, before too long they'll all be working for the Republican party or the Koch brothers

maybe they already are.

[socialindependocrat]

16. And so we come full circle...

You keep all the drugs illegal and the gangs selling drugs

Arrest all the entrepreneurial spirits and teach them white supremacy
Take all the gang members and teach them better ways of dealing drugs
and refill the prisons.

Send out the white supremacists to wreak havoc on immigrants in order
to rebuild the white race to energize the Repuke party.

Degrade the American corporations so they need lower class workers
so they hire ex-cons and keep the wages low. Ship jobs overseas in order
to keep wages low

And keep channeling the corporate dollars to the wealthy.

One problem - Who is going to have the money to buy the product and keep
the corporations in business? They haven't figured out the answer to that one yet!

[erronis]

20. Any smoking guns?

I'd love to see some validated information that can link the Incarceration Industry to our most hated corporatists and government employees/lobbyists. It is very hard to keep real communications private, no matter how much Nixon, Johnson, Petraeus, classified embassy traffic, etc. Why can't we uncover some real evidence rather than a lot of causal analysis?

[Ptah]

23. Google "jan brewer prison lobby"

Arizona’s Private Prison Pay-To-Play Scandal Widens: Chair of House Appropriations Committee Appropriated by Geo Group
http://tucsoncitizen.com/cell-out-arizona/2011/07/20/arizona%E2%80%99s-private-prison-pay-to-play-scandal-widens-chair-of-house-appropriations-committee-appropriated-by-geo-group/

Much has been made of Governor Brewer’s intimate ties to Corrections Corporation of America.
Her Chief of Staff, Paul Senseman, is a former CCA lobbyist, and his wife is currently a lobbyist
or the company. Brewer’s campaign manager and senior policy advisor, Chuck Coughlin, runs
a consulting firm that also lobbies for CCA in Arizona. Brewer accepted a total of $60,000 in
contributions from people associated with CCA for her campaign and the tax increase initiative
that she was pushing last year. The scandal made waves after the passage of SB1070,
raising questions about CCA’s role in drafting legislation that would potentially provide the
company with millions more in contracts for immigrant detention facilities in Arizona.

But Brewer is hardly the only powerful politician in Arizona with ties to this influential industry.
A Cell-Out Arizona investigation has revealed that John Kavanagh (R-8), Chair of the
House Appropriations Committee, has accepted numerous campaign contributions from
lobbyists and others associated with Geo Group, the nation’s second largest private prison
company and one of the bidders for a contract to build and manage 5,000 new prison beds in Arizona.

Prison Lobbyists Working For AZ Gov. Brewer Are Set To Profit From Immigration Law She Signed
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/07/26/109493/prison-brewer/?mobile=nc
By Zaid Jilani on Jul 26, 2010 at 5:50 pm

This Thursday, SB-1070, Arizona’s radical new immigration law, will go into effect.
Despite an incoming lawsuit from the Obama administration’s Department of Justice,
Gov. Jan Brewer (R-AZ) has maintained that her state “will prevail,” claiming that
she is simply defending the border integrity and safety of her state.

Yet a new investigation by local Arizona TV news station CBS 5 finds that the Brewer
administration may have ulterior motives for its strong support of the new law.
The station has found that “two of Brewer’s top advisers have connections” to
private prison giant Corrections Corporation of America (CCA).

Arizona prison businesses are big political contributors
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/20110904arizona-prison-business-politics.html


Corrections Corp. of America, the country's largest private-prison operator, says it
thrives by offering better service at a lower cost than state-run prisons. It's an argument
echoed by the three smaller rivals bidding on a 5,000-bed private-prison contract
with the state of Arizona.

But when it comes to other ways of winning business, such as employing platoons of lobbyists,
doling out campaign contributions and working through political connections, CCA stands
head and shoulders above its competitors, in Arizona and across the country.

document Read prisons cost report

It isn't easy to disentangle the complicated political and financial connections between a
company and the public officials whose policy decisions can help or harm its business. But
critics accuse CCA of using its financial might and political connections to influence decision
makers and muscle its way to multimillion-dollar deals behind closed doors.

[socialindependocrat]

28. No, just supposition and conjecture - but it sounds like it fits....

The thing I can't believe is all the members of congress who do things
to support the wealthy (especially Lyin Ryan) shows that they are bought by
big business and the wealthy. Why is it that lobbying isn't illegal?

So many things to fix and so many webs to untangle....

Later!

[mountain grammy]

31. There's a huge overseas market for all the stuff we have plenty of..

and with all the jobs, they can be the new consumers.

[fascisthunter]

14. ..and plenty access to guns and ammo

gee.... how could anything go wrong.

[another_liberal]

18. For-profit Prisons use a lot of trustees . . .

For-profit prisons use large numbers of trustees to cut costs. If the trustees in charge of your cell block happen to be White Supremacists, you might be well-advised to show interest in becoming one as well. See how that works?

Thus we have another very good reason to oppose for-profit prisons.

[etherealtruth]

22. I suppose that makes (disgusting) sense

I am sure the goal is survival

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

24. That was the explanation I was looking for

as to why the problem would have grown worse under non-profits.

[WinkyDink]

19. Why, it's almost as if this is a consumation devoutly to be wished!

[Initech]

21. For profit prisons = a symptom of a truly sick society.

[DhhD]

25. The Aryan Brotherhood have a church, The Church of Jesus Christ, in Idaho. Google this.

[Dawson Leery]

26. k/r

[DhhD]

29. Many of these men are illiterate, unable to read and write, according to the links above.

This provides a link for me with the fact that in the 1980s and 1990s the Texas birth of no child left behind was pushed initially to provide a phonetic language program to so many Texas students behind grade level in language-reading, writing, and spelling. As many of you know, that program became a privatized special education computer program by Jeb Bush that was a disaster. So the illiteracy rate in Texas sent out children still unable to read and write on grade level. Students with more severe dyslexia usually have a reading level of third grade.

No wonder these men could not get along in society. Of course it is a lot of other things too. Could this be a lesson or is a wake up call to vouchering education in America instead of making sure that every child is correctly served in his neighborhood school? What are they supposed to do when they get out of prison? It is expected that they will go back in.

What other institutions have failed these men?

They do have a church in Idaho. Reverend Butler is their minister.

[PolitFreak]

32. K&R

a Good Read indeed!

[Doctor_J]

33. Another way the Prison Industrial Complex serves the wingers

Besides enriching the 1%ers, it turns out prisoners whose ideological bent is the same as the teabaggers

[eppur_se_muova]

34. Hmmm ... and if the prison management shares some of AB's racist views ?

Maybe they don't try all that hard to curb AB activity in their prisons.

How long before an organization with Klan or AB connections just buys their way into the private prison industry, and runs them as indoctrination centers ? How would you like to see Blackwater/Xe/whateverthehelltheycallthemselvesnow partnered with the PIC ?

[cbrer]

35. A very good read

There is a massive moral equivalency happening in America right now. It finds commonality with politicians, drug dealers (legal and other...), military contractors, and all those in it for the buck. It also is a side effect of our forced failed public school system.

It is a type of devolution. The backsliding in society is real and frightening.

But hey, maybe an environmental collapse will render it all moot.

[cbrer]

36. Am I nuts to wonder about a conspiracy

That would entail creating and releasing massive numbers of violent racist sociopaths into a well armed society?

I'm just crazy right?

[Blue_Tires]

38. Can we start calling them terrorists?

or do we have to wait until they commandeer a 757?

[Tx4obama]

39. Kick n/t

[pacalo]

40. Yikes. Interesting read.

Even more chilling is the article, 'My Life as a White Supremacist', which is linked at the end of your article (at the Daily Beast, second link).

Written by an FBI informant, it includes information about the Oklahoma City bombing that I never knew before; plus, information about a rightwing extremist named Tom Posey who was one of Oliver North's tools in the Nicaragua scheme.