**edited to add links.  Gees-o-pete.  Sorry.  Just done chelating and it’s definitely showing.

….what a misnomer, if there ever was one….Private Prisons evokes some sort of luxury…ha.

Diane Ravitch has this up.  But I wanted to search a little more.  Interesting that the news piece she mentions is not coming up on the top of the list.  I did find a blog by Jonathan Turley, where he features Mike Spindell:

The “uptick” in crime comes about because this prison is understaffed and what staff they have are not capable of providing a similar level of prison security, to that provided when the prison was run by the state. This is a cost that was unanticipated in the initial sale and the addition of this cost makes the enterprise less cost effective than originally stated.

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“But in the year since Corrections Corporation of America took over the 1,700-bed Lake Erie Correctional Institution, state audits have found patterns of inadequate staffing, delays in medical treatment and “unacceptable living conditions” inside the prison — including inmates lacking access to running water and toilets. The state docked the company nearly $500,000 in pay because of the violations.”

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You know, it’s pretty bad when we have more people in prisons than RUSSIA and CHINA.

From the descriptions of the conditions in the prisons…for-profits will run prisons like dungeons and not think a thing about it.

A commenter posted the video of Dick Cheney’s culpability in the for profit prisons:

I never heard any more about the indictment, so I went searching, and found only a few articles dated 2011, and the rest in 2008.  It’s been disappeared, apparently.

Another commenter posted this, and I immediately thought of the public schools:

I don’t believe in the privatization of prisons for many reasons but one in specific. A friend’s son worked in one down in Florida about ten years ago. He lasted maybe a year. Besides the low pay and bad hours his biggest complaint was corruption. You see, the prisoners got to grade the guards. You would think this was a good idea right? Not so much. The guards became the prisoners puppies. The ones who moved up the chain of command were the ones who stayed out of the way and brought in the contraband. The rest were short timers who couldn’t take it anymore. Ponder on that thought for a while.

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I also found this on dailykos.  Why does it not surprise me the ALEC is connected to these for profit prisons?