Context is everything.
I'm going to make it easy for you. I'm actually going to break down the comment that I was responding to.
Now here is where you went off track.
Which leads us to...
Does that help?
Oh My Goodness Gracious.
You didn't have to do that, Mikie! I just mistakenly quoted something, that's all...
But, to clarify...When I said:
Lean? All you need to do is look up.
It was in reference to a News Item in the marquee referring to your persistent inability to "get along" with others without personal insults. But that is a closed subject now,
isn't it?
As far as private prisons go, do you not see why they would be cheaper?
No, I don't. I see a money pit rife with personal and political graft and corruption. Please explain how private prisons would be cheaper, and better. Because, from what I've read,
they're not.
Early this month, three convicted murderers escaped from a prison in Kingman, a small town along Route 66 in northwest Arizona. According to reports, the inmates had broken free from the facility by using a pair of wire cutters. They'd escaped from a medium-security facility operated by Utah-based Management & Training Corp, a private corrections company.
The incident set off a political furor, not over the fact that the three violent criminals were being held in a medium-security prison, but over the security of the facility itself, and, ultimately, over Arizona's widespread use of private correctional facilities.
Arizona's attorney general, Terry Goddard, a Democrat running for governor against incumbent Republican Janice Brewer, took the opportunity to indict the state's infatuation with privatization.
"I believe a big part of our problem is that the very violent inmates, like the three that escaped, ended up getting reclassified [as a lower risk] quickly and sent to private prisons that were just not up to the job," Goddard told a local TV news station.
In recent years, the trend toward privatization, both among state governments and at the federal level has been part of an attempt to address serious budget troubles and crisis-level prison overcrowding by outsourcing more and more corrections operations to private companies.
The move has translated into big business for industry leaders like Corrections Corporation of America (CXW), The Geo Group (GEO) and Cornell Companies, Inc. (CRN) (just last week, The Geo Group and Cornell finalized a merger valued at $730 million).
That law in Arizona, btw, has been signed into law.
