And just where DID those for-profit prisons come from ? by FREMDFIRMA

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And just where DID those for-profit prisons come from ?

POSTED BY: FREMDFIRMA
UPDATED: Saturday, October 26, 2013 23:54
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Saturday, October 26, 2013 11:54 PM

As I have said time and time again, because of their lack of social and legal protection, most "brilliant ideas" by the powers that be which step all over peoples rights are first aimed at Youth - surveillence in schools lead to surveillence in society, Zero Tolerance becomes Airport Security, and so on and so forth, and those private for-profit prisons, the Hellcamps were the dark seed from which that ugly fruit spawned, just so you know.

PART 1
Private Prison Empire Rises Despite Startling Record Of Juvenile Abuse
http://projects.huffingtonpost.com/prisoners-of-profit

Of particular note are those financial contributions - G4S is the company which absorbed the remains of both Wackenhut and the friggin Pinkertons and that's all imma say on that or I'd be here all night.
Vision Quest is one of the longest and most overall lethal Hellcamps there ever was, second only to the WWASPS empire for pure malice and destruction.

PART 2
Florida's Lax Oversight Enables Systemic Abuse At Private Youth Prisons
http://projects.huffingtonpost.com/prisoners-of-profit-2

They touch on the Dozier school and those unmarked graves, but also worth a mention is a STILL OPERATING hellhole every bit as bad.

Quote:
Slattery submitted a proposal, touting his company’s “history of successfully operating juvenile facilities for the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice.” The 60-page proposal noted that the company’s programs were “nationally recognized” for “consistent, high-quality services.”

The proposal described other moderate-risk facilities the company had “successfully operated” in other parts of the country, including the 355-bed Charles H. Hickey, Jr. School outside of Baltimore. The proposal neglected to mention that the U.S. Justice Department was in the midst of investigating widespread violence and rampant staff abuse at Hickey that same year.

There's unmarked graves at Hickey too, I can tell you THAT one for a fucking FACT.

There's an additional followup at the Turley blog which includes mention of the whole kids-for-cash thing and how one ties into the other.
http://jonathanturley.org/2013/10/26/the-private-prisons-profit-on-you
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And of course, once they got all the bugs worked out and the right palms greased, they went after adults, neh ?
So maybe, just maybe, the next dumbass demonization of Youth policy "brilliant idea" which comes around, perhaps folk oughta take a stand there, if for no other reason than self defense by proxy, hmm ?

What still rooks me is how nobody gives a damn about human rights violations, casualties or how lives are destroyed, even in most of the media it's all about the MONEY - someone didn't get their cut, are we getting our moneys worth, yadda freakin yadda... which is how we've cut some of em off at the knees, sure - but that ain't the damn point.

-Frem

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