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  • Talk PRIVATELY one day with a Prison Guard at MOST prisons. They will tell you Truth... that at least half of those incarcerated are either:

    1. innocent totally 2. did a very minor drug crime and it got puffed up by police 3. are mentally retarded (clinically speaking) and their uncontrolled emotions are systematically used against them. America is in Holocaust. 4th/6th Amendment= Dead.

  • The issue of Native American Indians, We the People have taken their land, cast them out of their homes stashed them in concectration camps, exploited their lands for profits, Punished them for defending their own from goons who succeded in extracting their Uranium, and now their clean water is being poluted from fracking for natural gas. There are many dynamics at work here. Many guards do more drugs than the ones who were unfortunate enough to get caught! Free Leonard Peltier ~Soilent Green~

  • They run Private Mental Health Facitilies too. They hire high-school dropouts who could not even stay in high school. GEO opened a facility in home town Mental Health DIRECTOR was just an LLPC.Ws detained on petty misdomeanor (ws dropped) made me strip all my cloths, put in suicide smock, held me all night freezing. Now they say they Strip searched me! They have no qualifications, are training the next bunch of Gistopos to turn loose on Occupy demonstrators. No one cares until it happens to you.

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  • absolutly love it

  • Most Americans just don't care. Out of sight, out of mind. Enforce laws on white middle-class neighborhoods the way they're enforced on low income non-white neighborhoods and you'll see a real change.

  • I'm willing to bet we can blame a lot of this not just on corporate greed, but on Nancy Reagan and the war on drugs. Overcrowding.

  • To some people, the answer to everything is privatization. Why? Because you trust corporations to do the right thing and the government to do the wrong thing every single time?

    Both entities are run by humans. Until we become perfect, demonizing one and glorifying another is short sighted and just plain stupid.

  • This seems like a good idea. This is a biased report!! Why wouldn't you privatize? sure the system now is a little messed up but that just needs to be reformed. GOVERNMENT DOES NOT LOOK FOR INNOVATION IN EFFICIENCY! CORPORATIONS DO!

  • @jackrabbitnw67 By efficiency you mean cutting corners for profits while paying away safety and trade regulations by buying the government. Efficiency means nothing when policy isn't based on public service but on bought out policies, and in that environment any reform rhetoric is merely used to stall any actual action forever.

  • @jackrabbitnw67 Disgusting! Corporations only look to maximize profits. This means the more people you send to prison, and the less you pay them, the more profit they make. Corporations can literally buy judges and have them send more people to their prisons (this is in fact already happening). Minor offenses will now be punished with longer sentences. This can only go downhill.

  • @greenjelly01 You got it right and it is going down hill renumber those crooked Judges in NY. 

  • Great

  • Inmates will always have more rights than us correctional officers , private jail or not .

  • I work for a pvt prison and i get 10 dollars an hour . If the county would take the jail back , id be making close to 20 dollars an hour . Pvt jails have high turnover rate , mine has a 90 percent turnover rate . Its just like a high school , the staff are so caught up in drama with eachother and nobody does anything they way its supposed to be done . On top of that , they didn't train me the right way , they threw me to the wolves and i had to learn on my own .

  • I'm a normal person. They put me in jail...now I daydream of vandalizing their stuff. I'm pissed and live in fear.

  • @He101A ok that sounds about as lame of an idea as i have heard EVER ! what about the people that make their living in the mines ? they would love to see that daaaaa

  • I wonder how much money CCA contributes to "tough on crime" judge and politicians campaigns.

  • what a hatchet job! this reporter would prefer we set them free and treat them all nice nice. what a bunch of bs.. lock them up and throw away the key. bummer for the inmates. let's feed them better because they deserve it. right. the bleeding hearts that push their agenda would rather you treat inmates and corrections like a country club get away. very balanced story, huh.

    go work for a company that doesn't make a profit and see what happens. lol

    profit is a good thing you losers.

  • @summitoaks

    - "this reporter would prefer we set them free and treat them all nice nice"

    she never said or insinuated that at all. She was just raising questions about private prisons.

    - "lock them up and throw away the key"

    ... okay that's a nice slogan, looking at the US prison statistics and seeing the fact the we have the highest prison population in the world shouldn't we look at why we are locking up people, if our laws are reasonable, and if it's worth it to focus on rehabilitation?

  • @summitoaks

    - "let's feed them better because they deserve it"

    are you saying we should starve them? feed them inferior food?

    - "bleeding hearts that push their agenda would rather treat inmates and corrections like a country get away"

    those inmates are still human beings even though they broke the law. they can't be stripped of their humanity because they broke the law. I think treating inmates as human beings rather than a commodity for a private company to exploit is a good agenda.

  • @summitoaks

    - "go work for a company that doesn't make a profit and see what happens. lol"

    the point is if profit is a good incentive to create a socially responsible system that moves citizens that broke the law through the system and rehabilitate them into a more law abiding citizen. What we see in reality is that these private prison companies lobby Washington to make harsher laws and increase incarceration time this was done for profit not for what is best for society and prisoners.

  • @summitoaks

    - "profit is a good thing you losers."

    profit isn't always a good thing what if it's un-ethical to profit off something like the prison system, drug trade, child prostitution, wars, and other blackmarket stuff.

    drug lord: profit is a good thing you losers!

    child sex trafficker: profit is a good thing you losers!

    corrupt businessmen: profit is a good thing you losers!

    war profiteer: profit is a good thing you losers!

    blackmarket dealer: profit is a good thing you losers!

  • @summitoaks The reporter didn't insist that we should feed our prisoners filet mignon and caviar. She didn't suggest they should have cushy furniture and spacious cells. But we DO have an obligation to provide a basic minimum of civil humane treatment, the CONSTITUTION DEMANDS IT! The 8th amendment is clear.Private prisons have been involved in working inmates like slaves until some committed suicide, under-fed inmates or fed them food not fit for consumption, ...

  • @MrJeremiahxlewis Non prvt jails and state prisons work inmates .

  • @crazyhorse1369: Yes, I understand. But when public jails and prisons work inmates society benefits, not just the CEO and board of directors for a company. Working inmates in the public system helps defray costs of housing inmates, while working them in private jails benefits the corporation even while taxpayers pay MORE to house inmates in private prisons. According to AZ's studies of their private detentions, it costs on avg $16,000 more per inmate per year...

  • @crazyhorse1369 ...And there are more regulations to prevent abuse in the public system, whereas the private prisons operate with autonomy and are expected to regulate themselves. Private prisons are more equivalent to the chain-gangs of old, slaving people for profit with no intention of reform or rehabilitation. And many prisons do NOT work their prisoners...

  • @crazyhorse1369 I'm not against prisoners paying back to society for their crimes, even through labor, but they should still be protected as per the 8th amendment banning "cruel and unusual punishment".

  • @MrJeremiahxlewis Well i donno how other officers do it , but when i put an inmate to work , i don't work him to the bone like they are talking about in this video . Normally i will give the inmate who helped me , the leftover trays when im done feeding .

  • @crazyhorse1369 That all depends on what corporation you work for. The more profit the corporation is trying to make the more labor they'll want to get out of each prisoner. And since some corporate prisons have made enough profits to bribe judges with millions of dollars you know they're making a ton of money. Part of that comes from taxes which pay the corporate prisons and the rest comes from the fruits of the inmates labor.

  • @crazyhorse1369 I assume since you say you're only paid 10/hr for a hazardous job they're making up the difference by under-paying you. In other areas they may not find labor that cheap, so they'll be looking to make up the margins elsewhere.

  • @MrJeremiahxlewis Well , its a 12 hour work day . They are paying for me to get a jailors liscense and im not gonna pass that up lol . PLus we can work all the over time we want .

  • provided subpar health care, and let inmates beat each other unconcious or to death without intervening. This has created lawsuits and, in at least one case, a prison riot. Plus private prisons have been found guilty of bribing judges who sentenced "criminals" to lengthy sentences for small infractions because their stock value goes up based on the head-count. I hope your warden shows compassion when your jailed for some small infraction.

  • Google "corrupt judges juvenile detention" (I'd post the link but YouTube wont let me)

    Check out the links and tell me you'd like your teenager to go through that.

    or try googling "Correction Corporation of America lawsuits"

    or just try "private prisons". the top links below the wikipedia article all tell about the negative effects of private prisons.

  • @summitoaks did you even watch this video? they are comparing private prisons to government run facilities and how in this instance privatization was a very bad idea because security for the officers was horrible and they were under staffed. try watching the video this time then form an opinion based on the facts.......

  • @He101A Be careful what you wish for, you might be the one mining.

  • :O WHAT IN THE BLUE SHIT IS THIS

  • MILITIAS are a quick fix simple fix, but I think the battle can be won with the power of reason and the light of truth. Be brave, protest for the right reason in non-violent ways. If you can overcome pain, hunger and sensory deprivation then nothing will scare you. If anything scares it because of your lack of faith in the supernatural power of the HOLY SPIRIT. The power of your faith can strike like a lighting bolt into the corrupt cold hearts. It depends on strength of your belief.

  • Business as usual eh, and this comes from the "morally superior" nation on earth. "The more people we can fit in to prisons, the richer we will be" Now tell me who are the REAL criminals?

  • Some things should be exempt from privatization. Prisons are one of those things. Military and intelligence another even more important and frightening, dangerous outcome of profit where it should be exempt. The US looks like the years before Hitler and the Nazi regime. Fascism is not a good thing.

  • Wanna bet that the same folks that smuggle the drugs into the country also own the private prisons?

  • @CaptJJYossarian google ROTHSCHILDS ,ROCKEFELLER,CIA;ILLUMINATI;JE­SUITS

  • Under free market capitalism, the government serves two major functions: defense and law enforcement (for protection of liberties). These should not be privatized because making a profit from war or crime is not good. The problem with prisons being overpopulated deals with too many laws. If drugs were legalized, a large amount of people would not be sent to prison.

  • in the oklahoma department of corrections theres a prison where theres 4 unit officers watching 800 inmates . why the understaffing? Because private prisons

    keep raising there rates.

  • Plus private prisons cost taxpayers more than state run prisons, pretty sad!

  • I think I would have to disagree with the idea that inmates don't have rights. The Constitution says that all men are created with rights given to them by God. So how can a goverment which doesn't have rights take away a citizens rights?

  • they don't, they have willingfully committed a crime, and therefore put away for other people's safety.

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  • contract it out to the chinese, russian or north korean governments and send all the criminals to those countries

  • too much money to do that

  • @Buzzkillington429 it sound like you have a greater respect for numbers and statistics instead of human safety. wtf is wrong with you

  • He101A

    you have the brains of plate of spaghetti.

    but wait it's entrails

    lol jajajaa

  • People born in extremely rough neighborhoods have to join gangs because they offer protection and will probably be the only family they will ever have, if you want to tell some 9 year old that he should rather die then join a gang to stay alive then go ahead. I deal with kids who grew up this way all the time. It's extremely common and it only begins a life of crime they never intended or wanted

  • You do realize that some kids have to deal drugs and join gangs to stay alive right? Or do you think everyone grew up in a white suburban neighborhood with 0% crime rate?

  • thats incredibly ignorant and prejudice of you to say

  • "In a state facility you don't worry about getting hurt, but in a private facility you better worry." I'm sorry, but that is bullshit. The facility she was at was full of untrained staff. Inmates are inmates, period. The are the same in private, state, or federal. All have killers, rapists, violent offenders, gangs, etc...all these guys that society wants to forget about, people like me put up with them everyday.

  • i dont get why the government cant just keep the same business model that the private corps use and keep it government, privately owned corp prisons just open up a big door for corruption of the prison keepers and such since they dont got the government code of conduct to keep them in line, and private PROFIT prisons will just end up with penny pinching to the point where itll become dangerous for everyone

  • I can agree, but I also disagree with what you have said. I am a C/O at a CCA [Private Enterprise] facility, in KY. Penny pinching, well that is obvious to get state contracts. But the statement about government code of conduct; we have the same law and regulations as state and federal facility. The facility I work at, has been around since the mid-80's and have only a handful of staff assaults. For the most part, where I work, things are smooth, well thought, and calm.

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