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As state governments wrestle with massive budget shortfalls, a Wall Street giant is offering a solution: cash in exchange for state property. Prisons, to be exact.

Corrections Corporation of America, the nation's largest operator of for-profit prisons, has sent letters recently to 48 states offering to buy up their prisons as a remedy for "challenging corrections budgets." In exchange, the company is asking for a 20-year management contract, plus an assurance that the prison would…

IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME!!

Say No to Prison Privatization!

A letter was sent recently to 48 U.S. governors announcing the Corrections Corporation of America's "Investment Initiative" to spend up to $250 million to buy prisons from state, local, and federal governments. The "initiative" requires a minimum commitment of 20 years for the facility, maintaining 90% capacity over the 20-year period. This outrageous offer strikes at the heart of a democracy grounded in human…

Prisons, Privatization, Patronage

2012-06-22, New York Times

Posted: 2012-06-26 11:12:00

Prisons, Privatization, Patronage

The New York Times has published several terrifying reports about New Jersey’s system of halfway houses — privately run adjuncts to the regular system of prisons. The horrors described are part of a broader pattern in which essential…

Awesome news! U.S. Department of Justice reports show that violent crime has dropped by over half in the last 15 years. What incredible, uplifting news we can celebrate! But you haven't heard about this. Why was this news censored?

To verify this inspiring news, see the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) graph and information here and here. The biggest drop occurred between 1994 and 2004.

Unfortunately some key data on the DOJ website is not very up to date, but you can find more…

Prison Spending Outpaces All but Medicaid

One in every 31 adults, or 7.3 million Americans, is in prison, on parole or probation, at a cost to the states of $47 billion in 2008, according to a new study.

Criminal correction spending is outpacing budget growth in education, transportation and public assistance, based on state and federal data. Only Medicaid spending grew faster than state corrections spending, which quadrupled in the past two decades, according to the report Monday…

SHANE REAMS' mother was practicing "tough love" when she encouraged neighbors to press charges. Shane had been stealing from the neighbors' garages. Those burglary convictions ended up serving as the basis for a three-strike sentence that sent her son away for 25 years to life. His third strike: aiding and abetting a $20 drug sale to an undercover officer.

Ronnie Villa, a grandfather of four, is doing 25 to life. His crime: stealing five bottles of Head and Shoulders shampoo. His…

Crime and punishment in America

Rough justice

America locks up too many people, some for acts that should not even be criminal



IN 2000 four Americans were charged with importing lobster tails in plastic bags rather than cardboard boxes, in violation of a Honduran regulation that Honduras no longer enforces. They had fallen foul of the Lacey Act, which bars…

Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) reported better than expected earnings yesterday. CCA president and CEO, Damon Hininger, said in a conference call with analysts that earnings per share increased 10.8% for 2011, making, “11 consecutive years of EPS growth for CCA with the worst economic environment of our lifetime.” While I would not argue that these have been challenging economic times, I would argue that prison growth has been harmed by any economic downturn. It’s like saying…

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Agreement betwent Guanin Center, inc., and the Streets don´t love you back movement

Friday 09 of November all Guanin Center, Inc board member, have been meeting to discuss and sign a bilateral agreement with the international Institution ¨THE STREETS DON´T LOVE YOU BACK MOVEMENT¨ from Detroit, USA.

Their mission is to encourage others to rise up and…

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The Other Side of the Coin: The Spiritual Life of a Black Man

Held Captive in Angola Prison for 40 years

Each sentence of this chilling autobiographical account makes readers turn the pages eager for the next unfolding in this remarkable man’s life. Robert Howard recounts the violent, bestial life of prison that he faced at the young age of 15 in 1963. Rising to…

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ABC News - Sexual Assault Victim Ordered to Pay Alimony to Attacker Fights to Change California Law (ABC News)

She was forced to have sex with him, and now she's being forced to pay his bills.

Crystal Harris of Carlsbad, Calif., had been financially supporting her unemployed, abusive husband Shawn Harris for years. But after he sexually assaulted her in 2008, she…

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"Has Detective Henry got his facts straight about Johnny? The only way we'll ever know is through... The Interrogation"…

The story of Clara Harris Murder



The Harris Murder

Thiers was a troubled marriage. David, the husband was having an affair with his receptionist, Gail, who knew David was married. She worked in the same clinic. Finally, someone in the office secretly tipped off his wife, Clara

.According to the local newspapers, Gail said David told her it was…

Father Does The Unthinkable: Forgives Own Daughter For Murdering Family.

Terry Caffey loves his daughter, Erin Caffey, and hopes that one day she will be free again – despite the fact that she helped murder his wife and children, Erin’s own mother and…