December 14, 2009
Privatizing prisons by American Police Beat
If you're a corrections officer or a deputy assigned to a jail in Arizona, you might want to start looking for a new job. Arizona is slated to become the first state to completely privatize its correctional system. And we're not just talking county lock-ups like Joe Arpaio's world-famous tent city - even the super-max facilities housing the worst of the worst just might end up being staffed and run by for-profit companies like Corrections Corporation of America and Wackenhut.
Arizona spends $4.7 million each year to house inmates who are serial killers, rapists, gang-bangers and every other bad guy and gal you can think of. To many state legislators the idea of privatizing corrections is too good to pass up. Who wouldn't want to save $5 million bucks and turn the complicated process of administering death sentences to private companies?…
LINK - APBWeb.com (American Police Beat)
