Tag: Private Prisons
Posted on Sat Oct 24, 2009 at 12:57:57 PM EST
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As more states look to privatizing prisons to save money, Troy Hooper at the Aspen Daily News begins a series on abuses in the prisoner transport system. Read this one, it will turn your stomach.
The company is California-based Court Services Inc. (CSI), which denies the allegations. In the case Hooper explores today, a prisoner being transferred from San Diego to Aspen, Sheriff Bob Braudis is not only refusing to pay the company's fee, he's reimbursing the prisoner's mother and sister for their travel expenses to Aspen, where they went to protest what happened.
In other words, the sheriff's office is bankrolling the protest of its own jail.“We’re going to pay for their expenses out here,” said [Undersheriff Joe] DiSalvo, estimating the cost at around $1,300. “They should be compensated for bringing something that’s really important to us — a human rights issue — to our attention. If they hadn’t picketed, we probably would’ve kept using that service.”
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Posted on Sun Feb 11, 2007 at 10:59:38 PM EST
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Forbes reports that Corrections Corp. of America saw a 37% profit increase in the 4th quarter of 2006.
For the full fiscal year, Corrections Corp.'s profit more than doubled to $105.2 million, or $1.71 per share, from $50.1 million, or 83 cents per share in 2005.
The principal reason seems to be that demand is up at both the state and federal levels. Prison occupancy rates rose to 97%.
Here's more. [Via Think Outside the Cage.]
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