Why I Hate CCA (Corrections Corporation of America)

"Raped, Stalked, Threatened, and Terrorized"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:04:38 PST

Those are the words used by an attorney representing one of a few women who were traumatized by their experience at a CCA prison to describe how an officer at the Camino Nuevo facility in New...

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CorruptionFest 2012 Set for Monday Vote

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:39:29 PST

Looks like Haridopolous thinks he has the votes he needs to force CorruptionFest2012 through. He's setting a vote on the measure before the full Senate for either Monday or Tuesday of next...

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ICE Proposal Defeated

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:40:03 PST

Though it can be difficult to advocate against an industry that reaps billions in government contracts annually, and turns that money around into lobbying efforts to ensure they continue to get...

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Our Cynical Prison-Industrial Complex

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:00:43 PST

Just wanted to drop a quick link here to a great story from The Guardian that discusses our prison-industrial complex and its perverse incentives to lock up an ever-growing segment of our...

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Revolving Door in Tennessee

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:57:54 PST

Quick link here to a discussion of a recent report documenting the revolving door between Tennessee's legislature and its lobbying force. Many former state officials now work in the private...

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Coming Out of the Shadows

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:52:31 PST

ICE and CCA have been working in near-complete secrecy in designing an immigration detention center that would be placed in Crete, IL. As residents began to discover the plan, which was already...

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They Sue To Keep Expanding

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:26:20 PST

The private prison industry's business model is predicated on constant expansion of facility space and bed capacity. The industry is able to generate such tremendous profits by continuously...

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Another Preventable Death in a CCA Prison

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:24:27 PST

A 26-year-old young man just died in a CCA Prison in Colorado, after seeking treatment for days for his inability to urinate. Terrell Griswold was found slumped over on a toilet about 12 hours...

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CorruptionFest 2012, Live from Florida!

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:42:25 PST

I'll spare everyone a summary of what's been happening in the Florida legislature over the past two sessions (see here , here, and here, or just search for "Florida" to catch up); instead, I'll...

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Escape from a CCA Facility in Tennesee

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:33:50 PST

A low-security prisoner in Tennessee has escaped from a CCA facility. He was working on a laundry detail and somehow, unbeknownst to the guards on duty, just slipped away. Thankfully...

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CCA Gets off Really Easy in Hernando County, FL

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:48:52 PST

Florida, as you know if you've heard anything about private prisons in the past month, is in the midst of a huge, subversive campaign to force private prisons on its residents, despite widespread...

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The Truth Hurts Their Bottom Line

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:11:31 PST

Another quick link here to update you on the case Prison Legal News is currently litigating against CCA in Tennessee. For now the third time, CCA has appealed a court ruling ordering it to...

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CA to Stop Shipping Prisoners Out of State?

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:09:25 PST

As California seeks to re-align its prison population to comply with the Supreme Court's order in Brown v. Plata, it needs to figure out what to do with tens of thousands of prisoners that it simply...

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Protecting Against Losses

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:03:43 PST

Quick one here. In Liberty County, Texas, officials have been working to reduce the population at the county jail, run by CEC. That's a great thing; that means less people will be...

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National Actions Targeting Private Prison Investors

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:33:53 PST

More coverage from the protests last week over Wells Fargo's and other banks' continued investments in the private prison industry:

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Privatization Proposals in NH, MT

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:28:59 PST

Despite the industry's lackluster record, private prisons are still seemingly in high demand. For instance, legislators in New Hampshire have released a request for proposals (RFP) to construct...

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Effing Florida

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:35:13 PST

So before I go off on a tangent here, I apologize for the litany of links to come. But the situation in Florida has quickly spiraled out of control and, seeing as I'm already weeks late on...

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CCA Lobbyist at Center of Ethics Debate

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:17:02 PST

The great state of Idaho is one of only 2 in the country that lacks a public disclosure requirement for its legislators. This has prompted Democrats in the state to seek to implement stricter...

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Media Coverage from the Day of Action

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:58:44 PST

This past Tuesday, January 24, was a nationwide "Day of Action," calling on Wells Fargo to divest itself from companies that profit by incarcerating people. There were protests in more than a...

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Thinking of Tumbling...

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:13:38 PST

This one goes out to my 2 regular readers (thanks mom!); now that Google is going to change its privacy policy and track everything people do, write, search for, or see online, I want to dissociate...

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More on the Shady Deal in Illinois

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:24:17 PST

I'd like to give you a brief update on the proposed ICE detention center in Crete, Illinois, which has caused come controversy among the local population who knew almost nothing of the project until...

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We're All Screwed in the End

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:04:40 PST

I often try to figure out ways to convince people that private prisons are not in the best interest of anyone but executives of private prison companies. There are plenty of others out there...

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Blueprint for Success

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:59:48 PST

Just a quick link here to a great report that the Sentencing Project put out two weeks ago that investigates private prison companies' blueprint for success. In a nutshell, they don't save money, but...

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National Day of Action

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:56:50 PST

The Private Prison Industry Divestment Campaign, being waged by the folks at Enlace, is hosting a national day of action on January 24, to mount protests in multiple cities across the US to call on...

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GA Lawmaker Drinking With CCA Lobbyist Prior to DUI

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:55:51 PST

That is all.

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