Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Colorado is Giving $2 Million to a Private Prison Company for Nonexistent Inmates


http://www.policymic.com/articles/65223/colorado-is-giving-2-million-to-a-private-prison-company-for-nonexistent-inmates

investment on ethnics and a perceived notion of "they are up to no good, watch 'em we will have a space in private prison reserved for them".  you know how many people have to be complicit for this to work?
Article Photorecent article in the Denver Post discusses how difficult life is for people on parole from the Colorado prison system. While most would hope that those on parole are able to stay out of prison, there is one entity that could not care less: the private prison industry. Whether the parolees stay out or return to prison, these corporations are going to get their money. 
In fact, Colorado will spend $2 million of taxpayer money because it has a deal with a private prison corporation to pay for at least 90% occupancy so even if the inmate are not there; Coloradans pay. 
Private prison corporations like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) understand that they want their inmate population like they want their profits: big. In a society that claims to be trying to reduce crime, it does not make sense that privatized prisons should be making money. 
Because private prisons are run by businessmen, they have figured out a perverse way to profit. These businesses make money the old-fashioned way: They contract for it.
should all Blacks and Hispanics leave colorado they are now in the cross hairs of the Private Prison people who pay off law enforcement to target and "bring to justice" those they consider to have a propensity to commit crime, you have to wonder are their bonuses so to speak to officers who supply the occupants?
people talk about the inequality of incarcerated between races, states not known for being safe and happy places for some, 
When jurisdictions contract with a private prison corporation to run their correctional facilities, these governments must promise to keep the jail or prison population at a certain capacity. If the prison is not filled to the capacity for which the parties contracted, the government must pay the corporation as if those beds were filled.
This would seem to be counterintuitive for a society. Logic dictates that the state would want a lower crime rate but it also would not want to waste taxpayer money by paying for unused beds. Logic often does not have a place in billion dollar businesses. 
These private prison corporations claim to be cost savers for the state (a claim which is disputed). If there is no inmate that the prison has to provide the minimal care including food, medical care, and protection in the form of corrections officers, then the empty bed the state is paying for is pure profit.
I have also discussed the incredible amount of money that the CCA has spent on lobbying. Naturally, the private prison companies lobby for tougher laws and encourage more incarceration. For example, according to a 2012 report by the Justice Policy Institute private prison corporations lobbied for “three-strikes” laws which are designed to put habitual felons in prison for life and “truth in sentencing” laws which ensure that once incarcerated,
a person spends more time in prison before parole eligibility. Even though there is evidence to show that “three-strikes” laws deter crime or make society safer, private prisons are not in the business of making states safer, but rather keeping their prisons full.
all about the Benjamin's and nothing to do with law as law but as the stepping stone to
billionaires.  hard to find fair and rehabilitation when your interest is to keep them there till death it kills recidivism but also locks down more non criminals than real offenders.  they never run out of stock it's real there is no justice tere's just us.
there is a reason and it's not as much racist as it is planned stereotyping, they are of color so they will do something sooner or later, that sounds too much like the Zimmerman philosophy then justice.