Examples of the powerful ignoring or eroding the fundamental principles our country was founded.
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A look at Police Misconduct in Clark County, Nevada and Across the U.S.
Examples of the powerful ignoring or eroding the fundamental principles our country was founded.
A private “for-profit” prison, jail or detention center is a place in which individuals are confined or interned by a Third Party that is Contracted by a Government Agency. Private prison companies typically enter into contractual agreements w/governments that commit prisoners and then pay a per diem or monthly rate for each prisoner confined in the facility. That rate is approximately $200-300 per inmate per day; federal taxpayer $ given to the states and is pro-rated to a 12-hr duration, so it financially behooves the detention facilities to drag-out the booking process from a 30-minute episode to a five or six-hour ordeal AND hold people for at least eight hrs, but as much as a week or two after they are released by the courts or bailed out.
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/419/video.html
This privatization refers to the takeover of existing public facilities by private operators and the building/operation of new prisons and is a $74 Billion industry in America. A study by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics found that the cost-savings promised by private prisons “have simply not materialized” while other research has concluded that for-profit prisons cost more than public prisons… and they violate civil and constitutional rights on multiple levels. Private prisons are a response by private capital to the “opportunities” created by society’s temper tantrum approach to the problem and have resulted in an incarceration rate that is unprecedented and really quite shameful. While America’s incarceration statistics have skyrocketed, crime rates have increased much more slowly – from 1975 to 1985, the crime rate decreased by 1.42% while the number of state and federal prisoners nearly doubled. A 2008 OECD study found America’s incarceration rate was “off the charts” – more than SEVEN TIMES higher than the median rate for other OECD countries. Bear in mind, this represents a tiny fraction of those detained, writ large; these figures do not account for those detained in “holding cells”… in filthy conditions, sleeping on top of one another on hard, concrete floors, with no access to a shower, or a toothbrush or even a bar of soap to wash their hands after they use a cell-centered urinal or drink from a combined toilet/water fountain unit. Just one more example of Capitalism Gone Wrong.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howard-steven-friedman/7-oecd-countries-with-the_b_912680.html#s317353&title=7_Mexico_208