It's the same all across the charts. We've got private para-militaries as well. If we can't legally invade a country, then we use these paramilitary units to go in and make a mess. If we have too many "useless eaters" in our country, cities contract out private detention centers which cut corners, and are guaranteed 90% capacity rates. They are funded with tax payer dollars, and often times work labor for pennies on the dollar.

I've been following Max Keiser for years now. He's been reporting this stuff since the beginning. He predicts that most people in the US will be slaves in these detention centers sooner or later. Not sure I can disagree with him at this point.

Maybe they're preparing for the day that AI robots make 90% of the population effectively obsolete. Let's say that's 10-20 years away. They won't have to do squat when that day comes, except systematically exterminate them in their already controlled environment...private detention centers.

Correction Corps of America is taking over state prisons nationwide. In the contract Correction Corps of America demands a 90% occupancy rate, which means that more people are going to jail/prison for reasons that used to not warrant incarceration. This is a serious problem and nothing good will come of it.

It is clear that accountability of Government is bygone, if it ever existed. The transparency of American government has been clouded by private interests to the benefit thereof. Behind closed doors now are created regulations and laws which serve not the interest of the people, but the flow of money to these corporations.
We see this over and over, with Monsanto guys and Pharm heads in the FDA. Weapons merchants have infiltrated the Defense Department. Treasury officials walk in from Wall Street. And here, the hugely growing
Security industry, which thrives in direct proportion to citizens' loss of freedoms.
The very agendas such companies become the agenda of of our Nation, as they line the pockets of our crooked politicians:

*Longer Sentences On Minor Crime
*Minimum Sentences On Major Crime and Minor Crime
*Ambiguous changes to the state and federal code as to what constitutes a crime or not.
*The Exponential Growing Prison Population.

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Corporate entities have even less accountability to the public. So a very real danger here, is that prisoners might suffer at the hand of a sadistic few who answer to no one. And in the case of prisoner, there is no one to turn to when human rights are violated.

I think the OP misses the goal, the goal is not to keep people out of jail, but to figure out a way to get them in. This has been the goal for a thousand years, those in charge of the planet have had it with their, their, slaves being on the loose. The reason for profit prisons happens is because someone, actually few, really want it and because they do, it happens. Don't be shocked, things happen because people want them to happen, the confusion arises because folks refuse to see the actual agenda.

I can also point out other things that are insane to be profit based.

Education
Medicine
Police
and the Military

...just to name a few.
Those are suppose to be money drains or in other words, investment to enhance society and the rest of the system. People don't have children to make profit, they invest in their child's future and I see raising society in the same way.

Originally posted by theMediator
I can also point out other things that are insane to be profit based.

Education
Medicine
Police
and the Military

I could not agree more. Social services that are designed specifically for the benefit of our country or society, should not be profit based. The model is insane, and only encourages greed, mismanagement and in the case of prisons, dubious morals.

~Tenth

It just goes to show how inept the government is. Once again, our tax dollars have been at waste. Yaaaay for capitalism.

The big corporations exported jobs overseas leaving people unemployed. The unemployed is taxing that system to where you can only get benefits for so long. People then steal to get money. They go to jail and do the rest of the jobs that smaller companies weren't big enough to export out. Whether that all was planned in advance or not is beside the point. It was all a matter of course. Supply and demand. "Necessity is the mother of invention" and all that jazz.

Any questions?

""YOUR TAX DOLLARS"""......


Who the heck are YOU? America never was and never will be a Democracy.

It's a REPUBLIC. A Corporate Republic.

Not only have they been caught convicting innocent people to put into "For Profit" Prisons with the Judges gettting kick backs.......

Federal Research Money has funded mad scientists to use those prisoners to test "things" on. A pool of bodies they can closely watch to see the effects of drugs. viruses, Directed Energy, biologicals.....you name it....they've been making it and testing it on them.

Pick up a book called "Project Day Lilly".

Originally posted by OptimusSubprime
Correction Corps of America is taking over state prisons nationwide. In the contract Correction Corps of America demands a 90% occupancy rate, which means that more people are going to jail/prison for reasons that used to not warrant incarceration. This is a serious problem and nothing good will come of it.

You're absolutely right, Optimus, and stocks in prisons have been on Wall Street for many years. Prison is big business in America, and has been for quite some time.

this has been going on for a long time, and you will see countless stories of minor offences being blown into full on jail terms because judges are on the books of the prisons corporations. send more people to jail = more money.

This is just my two cents thrown in here but what is wrong with having privatized prisons? These prisons could be run as restitution centers....to compensate their victims....to pay their child support...to send money to their families to help support them. It would certainly get some off welfare.

In Texas County Jails, for instance, you cannot force someone to work ,so an inmate signs up to be a trusty or to join the work crew. Most inmates do not want to sit in their cells 24/7. Why couldn't sentenced inmates be given the choice of going to one or a state run? In these private prisons they learn useful skills, skills they can be utilized after they are released. Also, a portion of their pay is used to pay for their room and board. They will not be indentured servants. Think about it..what is one of the terms of release for an inmate given parole? To have a job and work....and in most cases they are paying a fee for being on probation...I don't know about a fee on parolee's.

I also agree,most non violent offenders should not be sent to prison. They should be farmed out to county jails to serve their sentences. This would help many counties with an additional source of revenue. Times are hard everywhere and jobs are scarce. It would also help more people to be gainfully employed because the state has set ratios of so many correction officers per so many inmates.

Well I'm going to get off my soap box.

"grumpy"