PRIVATE PRISONS demand that States maintain MAXIMUM CAPACITY or PAY FEES!!!

[WheresWallace]

Private prisons demand states maintain maximum capacity or pay fees
By Travis Gettys
Friday, September 20, 2013 12:44 EDT

Topics: private prison ♦ private prisons

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Falling crime rates are bad for business at privately run prisons, and a new report shows the companies that own them require them to be filled near capacity to maintain their profit margin.

A new report from the advocacy group In the Public Interest shows private prison companies mandate high inmate occupancy rates through their contracts with states – in some cases, up to 100 percent.

The report, “Criminal: How Lockup Quotas and ‘Low-Crime Taxes’ Guarantee Profits for Private Prison Corporations,” finds three Arizona prisons must be filled to capacity under terms of its contract with Management and Training Corporation.

If those beds aren’t filled, the state must compensate the company.
The report found that occupancy requirements were standard language in contracts drawn up by big private prison companies.

One of those, The Corrections Corporation of America, made an offer last year to the governors of 48 states to operate their prisons on 20-year contracts.

That offer included a demand that those prisons remain 90 percent full for the duration of the operating agreement.

The report found 41 of the 62 contracts reviewed contained occupancy requirements, with the highest occupancy rates found in Arizona, Oklahoma and Virginia.

Private prison companies have also backed measures such as “three-strike” laws to maintain high prison occupancy.

When the crime rate drops so low that the occupancy requirements can’t be met, taxpayers are left footing the bill for unused facilities.

In Colorado, for example, Democratic Gov. John Hinklooper agreed to close down five state-run prisons and instead send inmates to CCA’s three corrections facilities.

That cost taxpayers at least $2 million to maintain the unused facilities.

It’s more difficult to quantify the societal cost of filling prisons to satisfy private investors.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/...-so-private-prisons-require-maximum-capacity/

Not new information to some of us, but listen to this shyt. Its crazy.

Major share holders in prison are also major share holders in media companies...

 

[Raava]

Shame. C.R.E.A.M.

Somethings should never be privatized or have a quota.

 

[Yakno1]

Buy "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

breaks all this down well

 

[Yakno1]

nice mainstream article and commentary on the subject

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

 

[Family Man]

They've locked up enough nikkas on bullshyt charges that now they have to turn around and start locking up CACs.

 

[cleanface coney]

young nikkas stay outta jail at all cost!!

 

[Benjamin Sisko]

The prison industrial complex is one of those institutions that has absolutely no interest in black people. This is our version of concentration camps, getting rid of a unwanted ethnic minority. Instead of outright genocide, the government is sanctioning this demonic behavior by giving blaCk men ( and women) longer sentences in the same crimes then their white counterparts. This is all an effort to slim down the ethnic minority thst has been unwanted since the Emancipation.

 

[Son Of God]

New York State Senate Wants To Make It A Felony To 'Annoy' A Police Officer

The New York State Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would make it a felony to annoy a police officer.

The bill would make aggravated harassment of a police officer a crime punishable by up to four years in prison, and so far, the effort has won praise from law enforcement officials.

"Professionally, I am grateful to see this bill pass through the Senate," Utica Police Department Chief Mark Williams said in a statement. "Our police officers have a very dangerous job and need the support of our government leaders to help make them safe."

However, the proposed law isn't as bad as it sounds: Its language specifies that a person has to make "physical contact" with an officer in order for the action to be a crime.

From the bill:

A person is guilty of aggravated harassment of a police officer or peace officer when, with the intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm [the officer while the officer is] engaged in the course of performing his or her official duties, he or she strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise subjects such person to physical contact.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/06/new-york-annoy-police-law_n_3398554.html

I can already see so many young black men being locked up for dumb shyt if this bill were to pass.

 

[Box Cutta]

The prison industrial complex is one of those institutions that has absolutely no interest in black people. This is our version of concentration camps, getting rid of a unwanted ethnic minority. Instead of outright genocide, the government is sanctioning this demonic behavior by giving blaCk men ( and women) longer sentences in the same crimes then their white counterparts. This is all an effort to slim down the ethnic minority thst has been unwanted since the Emancipation.

We need to separate from whites.

 

[Yakno1]

War on Drugs was designed by Satan.....on record you have federal officers admitting that enforcement is primarily in black areas nationally....

 

[mortuus est]

crazy shyt right there, when will it end.

 

[Poitier]

This is why certain things should ONLY be controlled by the Govt or atleast heavily subsidized (healthcare, education, prisons, weapons, etc )

 

[Diondon]

Prisons are one of the most profitable hustles there are right now. That's why they lock nikkas up for every little thing. And your politicians and legal system are in on it too.

 

[DaPresident]

BOLDER and BOLDER brehs...BOLDER and BOLDER...