All Discussions Tagged 'complex' - 12160 Social Network2024-03-28T20:27:45Zhttps://12160.info/forum/topic/listForTag?groupUrl=the-prison-industrial-complex&tag=complex&feed=yes&xn_auth=noOur $39 Billion Incarceration Epidemic Explained in One Infographictag:12160.info,2014-05-29:2649739:Topic:14721922014-05-29T04:33:45.005ZTarahttps://12160.info/profile/Tara
<p>If someone asks you what America does better than the rest of the world, a few things may come quickly to mind: high tech, entertainment, energy and fast food, for example. But there's another answer that's less cheery: The U.S. leads the world in imprisoning people.<br></br> <br></br> For petty crime, drug offenses or violence, no other nation in the world puts more people per capita behind bars than we do. When you add up federal, state and local prisons, immigration detention centers, juvenile…</p>
<p>If someone asks you what America does better than the rest of the world, a few things may come quickly to mind: high tech, entertainment, energy and fast food, for example. But there's another answer that's less cheery: The U.S. leads the world in imprisoning people.<br/> <br/> For petty crime, drug offenses or violence, no other nation in the world puts more people per capita behind bars than we do. When you add up federal, state and local prisons, immigration detention centers, juvenile facilities, military prisons, and Native American-run facilities, the U.S. has <a href="http://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie.html" target="_blank">2.4 million people locked up</a>, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. For perspective, that's 1.5 times as many people per capita as the Russian Federation imprisons. States take the biggest haul, with 1.4 million prisoners, followed by local jails and, bringing up the rear, the federal government.</p>
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<p>More Here: <a href="http://www.dailyfinance.com/2014/05/28/America-39billion-dollar-incarceration-epidemic-infographic/">http://www.dailyfinance.com/2014/05/28/America-39billion-dollar-incarceration-epidemic-infographic/</a></p> Private Prison Management Company Offering To Buy Prisons For 90% Occupancy Ratetag:12160.info,2012-09-13:2649739:Topic:9910562012-09-13T02:02:02.244ZTarahttps://12160.info/profile/Tara
<p><span>Private purchasing of prisons locks in occupancy rates</span></p>
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<p><span id="byLineTag">By Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY</span></p>
<p><span>WASHINGTON – At a time when states are struggling to reduce bloated prison <br></br>populations and tight budgets, a private prison management company is offering <br></br>to buy prisons in exchange for various considerations, including a controversial <br></br>guarantee that the governments maintain a 90% occupancy rate for at least 20…</span></p>
<p><span>Private purchasing of prisons locks in occupancy rates</span></p>
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<p><span id="byLineTag">By Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY</span></p>
<p><span>WASHINGTON – At a time when states are struggling to reduce bloated prison <br/>populations and tight budgets, a private prison management company is offering <br/>to buy prisons in exchange for various considerations, including a controversial <br/>guarantee that the governments maintain a 90% occupancy rate for at least 20 <br/>years.</span></p>
<p class="inside-copy">The $250 million proposal, circulated by the Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America to prison officials in 48 states, has been blasted by some state officials who suggest such a program could pressure criminal justice officials to seek harsher sentences to maintain the contractually required occupancy rates.</p>
<p class="inside-copy">"You don't want a prison system operating with the goal of maximizing profits," says Texas state Sen. John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat and advocate for reducing prison populations through less costly diversion programs. "The only thing worse is that this seeks to take advantage of some states' troubled financial position.</p>
<p class="inside-copy">STORY: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-03-07/prisons-ethical-concerns-executive/53405290/1">Proposal to buy prisons raises ethical concerns</a></p>
<p class="inside-copy">Read More Here: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-03-01/buying-prisons-require-high-occupancy/53402894/1?AID=4992781&PID=4003003&SID=3avsj698wk49#.UDZ1EC-fLQQ.mailto">http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-03-01/buying-prisons-require-high-occupancy/53402894/1?AID=4992781&PID=4003003&SID=3avsj698wk49#.UDZ1EC-fLQQ.mailto</a></p> ‘Profiteers of Misery’: The U.S. Private Prison Industrial Complextag:12160.info,2011-08-25:2649739:Topic:6034302011-08-25T23:50:09.874ZNikkihttps://12160.info/profile/NikkiG
<p><span class="marron_titulo_big">‘Profiteers of Misery’: The U.S. Private Prison Industrial Complex</span><br></br><span class="marron">By Kanya D’Almeida</span><br></br> <span class="texto1"><br></br><b>WASHINGTON, Aug 24, 2011 (IPS) - By the end of 2010, the United States was home to 25 percent of the world’s inmates, with roughly 2.4 million people behind bars and over seven million under "correctional supervision".</b><br></br><br></br>In any given year, 13 million people pass through the U.S. detention…</span></p>
<p><span class="marron_titulo_big">‘Profiteers of Misery’: The U.S. Private Prison Industrial Complex</span><br/><span class="marron">By Kanya D’Almeida</span><br/> <span class="texto1"><br/><b>WASHINGTON, Aug 24, 2011 (IPS) - By the end of 2010, the United States was home to 25 percent of the world’s inmates, with roughly 2.4 million people behind bars and over seven million under "correctional supervision".</b><br/><br/>In any given year, 13 million people pass through the U.S. detention system, which includes federal and state facilities; Native American, juvenile, military and local jails; U.S. detention centres overseas and holding centres operated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). <br/><br/> Elsie Scott, president of the Black Congressional Caucus, said at a press conference in D.C. earlier this year that the bill for housing prisoners was astronomical - at nearly 68 dollars a day per person. <br/><br/> In her book ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’, Michelle Alexander writes that even with crime rates on the decline, the U.S. prison population quintupled in just two decades, between 1980 and 2010. <br/><br/> It would seem that the case for reducing incarceration rates could not be stronger - especially for taxpayers and state and federal governments. <br/><br/> However, one group of people has a vested interest in keeping prisons as full as possible - the private prison corporations and their shareholders.</span></p>
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