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TVWhoWhatWhy: Russ Baker talks Private Prisons and Their Real Toll

By James Huang on May 6, 2012

WHO editor Russ Baker talks about America’s prison industrial complex with RT_America.

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flowergirl89

They need to be stopped and now trying to buy prisons in 48 states.
http://www.911Blogger.com/ Orangutan.

ACLU: Private Prisons Are the Problem, Not the Solution: Mississippi Dept of Corrections may have ended its contract with GEO… but it is looking for another for-profit prison contractor to run the three state prisons

http://www.aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights-criminal-law-reform/private-prisons-are-problem-not-solution
kelemi

Privatizing also doesn’t save money.
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/593506/surprise,_republicans_lied_to_us%3A_private_prisons_don't_save_money

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/us/19prisons.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1
http://www.azcorrections.gov/adc/reports/ADC_FY2010_PerCapitaRep.pdf

Privatizing is as useful as outsourcing.
Rmass051360

The Rich Get Richer, The Poor Get Prison. The depression in this country will make many costumers for these private prisons.
flowergirl89

The Private prison corp., CCA, is trying tp purchase prisons in 48 states. they need to be stopped before all of us are either working for them or one of their clients.
Tim9lives

New Orleans Times Picayune is doing a multi part report on Louisiana’s prisons. Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate IN THE WORLD.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/05/louisiana_is_the_worlds_prison.html
- flowergirl89
  
  Thank You for the link, very interresting. I had to put my five cents in there.

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