Blood Money - Part 1

The Battle of the Prison Guards---Governor Gray Davis in late 2001 cut a deal to terminate the state's private prison contracts in return for the re-election endorsement of the powerful prison guards union. This story at juxtaposes the ten-year record of two private recidivism reducing programs with the awesome power of guards' large campaign contributions. In a kind of communications jujitsu we turned the strength of the guards union (campaign contributions and lobbying firepower) into a communications resource for our client and beat the guards union.

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News & Politics

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• guards
• union
• prison
• private

[anthonyontherocks]

If being a firefighter helps inmates rehabilitate, keep the program! I rather se them saving lives than breaking into people's homes!

[xpal0]

Seems like some civilian men and women could train to be fiiremen and put a whole lot more people to work full time with benefits. Are these prisoners in for life? Most places will not hire a xcon. They seemed to be good guys, what were they doing in Prison in the first place? I am sure it was not violent, but had to be felony. Probably in the wrong place at the wrong time. Too many laws keep people from pursuing their happiness, and too many people make too much money all the way to the top.

[bailbondsga]

i dont know what happened to the facility but watching this, i hope it was kept open. a prison that saves lives. now why would you close something like that ?

[Baukunin]

Not impressive at all but complete b.s. Testimony from 6/20/07 in the Anchorage Daily News.

Frank Prewitt, Alaska ex-corrections commissioner and later a $150,000-a-year consultant to prison company Cornell Cos., testified for the government. Prewitt told jurors about a scheme in which Anderson agreed to do Cornell's bidding in the Legislature in exchange for money. Anderson was indicted on 7 felonies including bribery, extortion and money laundering.