Speaking of private prisons...was it ever established if our gov has the right to hire private companies like Xe. I know the line at first was that they don't engage in actual combat but that proved to be a fallacy.
Private prisons are all the rage in Republican led states. They contribute heavily to campaigns, take over the prisons, and don't give a shit from there on.
Case in point:
ArizonaLast year, two men showed up in Benson, Ariz., a small desert town 60 miles from the Mexico border, offering a deal.
Glenn Nichols, the Benson city manager, remembers the pitch.
"The gentleman that's the main thrust of this thing has a huge turquoise ring on his finger," Nichols said. "He's a great big huge guy and I equated him to a car salesman."
What he was selling was a prison for women and children who were illegal immigrants.
"They talk [about] how positive this was going to be for the community," Nichols said, "the amount of money that we would realize from each prisoner on a daily rate."
But Nichols wasn't buying. He asked them how would they possibly keep a prison full for years — decades even — with illegal immigrants?
"They talked like they didn't have any doubt they could fill it," Nichols said.
That's because prison companies like this one had a plan — a new business model to lock up illegal immigrants. And the plan became Arizona's immigration law.
Expect it soon here in
Floriduh. Our blacks and hispanics will be a gold mine for Scott!
Critics also say the plan to expand prison privatization is aimed at rewarding an industry that donates generously to the state Republican Party.
Since 2001, the Florida GOP has received more than $1.5 million from the two largest prison contractors and their affiliates, records show. More than $1 million of that has come from The GEO Group of Boca Raton – formerly known as Wackenhut – which manages two of the state’s private prisons.
