26 agos 2013 anni - Private Prisons suing states for millions... "if they don’t stay full"

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The Corrections Corporation of America, made an offer in 2012 to governors of 48 states to operate their prisons on 20-year contracts, according to In the Public Interest.

Take a look:

1) The offer included a demand that those prisons remain 90 percent full for the duration of the operating agreement. You know what that means: if there are not enough prisoners then there will be an unspoken push for police to arrest more people and to have the courts send more to prison for petty, frivolous and nonviolent crimes. There will also be a “nudge” for judges to hand down longer or maximum sentences to satisfy this “quota.”

2) Private prison companies have also backed measures such as “three-strike” laws to maintain high prison occupancy.

3) When the crime rate drops so low that the occupancy requirements can’t be met, taxpayers are left footing the bill for unused facilities.

The report found that 41 of 62 contracts reviewed contained occupancy requirements, with the highest occupancy rates found in Arizona, Oklahoma, and Virginia.

In Colorado, Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper agreed to close down five state-run prisons and instead send inmates to CCA’s three corrections facilities. That cost taxpayers at least $2 million to maintain the unused facilities.

https://rollingout.com/2013/09/26/what-private-prisons-suing-states-for-millions-if-they-dont-stay-full/?fbclid=IwAR1s1z3ayxtpzHWj7tJCZTSmQXpTev3ohKBmp_oj1-vuSzR4VcE54eN5hy8

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