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"According to Corrections Corporation of America reports reviewed by NPR, executives believe immigrant detention is their next big market. Last year, they wrote that they expect to bring in 'a significant portion of our revenues' from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency that detains illegal immigrants."
—The sheer nakedness of how corporations helped to create laws like Arizona's anti-immigration scheme is amazing.
And for a moment, I thought the Corrections Corporation addressed mistakes in newspapers.
Right, and if you are incarcerated in the great state of New York you are placed under the care of the Department of Correction, not Corrections, because, I suppose, at some time long past there was some idea that they would fix you. I assume other states are the same. So, kind of odd that they go with the \'s\' version.
What could possibly go wrong when we incentivize corporations to put people in jail/detention facilities/military bases?
Capitalizing on our through-the-roof incarceration rates by combining our fucked-up immigration detention policies with our increasing ownership by profit-seeking corporate interests. If that's not the American Dream in action, I don't know what is.
Say "captured body as commodity" over and over, 100 times, very fast.
My slurring makes it end up sound like "slaves".
I can't wait to hear Juan Williams crowing on Fox News about how NPR is so un-American to suggest that locking up brown people for money is unethical. You really picked the winning team, douchebag!
They also, I believe, get paid a fixed per diem for each inmate. Wonder what the food's like in there (other than the overpriced "food" in the vending machine, I mean).
Really digging the new bespoke slugs. It's like vintage Wonkette up in this.