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December 3, 2010 at 6:42 pm #597184
WSMomParticipanthttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130833741
“NPR spent the past several months analyzing hundreds of pages of campaign finance reports, lobbying documents and corporate records. What they show is a quiet, behind-the-scenes effort to help draft and pass Arizona Senate Bill 1070 by an industry that stands to benefit from it: the private prison industry.
The law could send hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to prison in a way never done before. And it could mean hundreds of millions of dollars in profits to private prison companies responsible for housing them.”
December 3, 2010 at 9:47 pm #710030
JanSParticipantthat’s despicable…maybe we should just sell AZ back to Mexico…
December 4, 2010 at 12:04 am #710031
WSMomParticipantI’m stunned that this is the first I’d heard of this NPR investigation. This first aired back in October, but it must not have made much of an impact because I totally missed it. The immorality of manipulating our government to make a law simply to allow a business to expand it’s customer base is stunning to me. When did the U.S. start allowing private for-profit prisons? Their plan to lock up as many people as they can grab is seen as a money making “opportunity” to be implemented in other states as well. Unbelievable!!
December 4, 2010 at 4:56 am #710032
datamuseParticipantWSMom: there have been privately-run or contracted prisons pretty much since the founding of the country, more or less. It really took hold in the 1980s, though. I’ve seen mutual funds that allow you to buy shares in companies that run prisons.
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