Happy Birthday CCA! You’re the New Parchman Farm!
By BitcoDavid This past Sunday marked Correction Corporation of America’s 30th birthday, making this article about as timely as a CCA guard feeding a diabetic inmate. Let me tell you a little story. In 1905, the state of Mississippi launched an experiment in crime prevention. The program was referred to as the convict lease system.
CCA and Others Use Politics as Strategy
By BitcoDavid In January of last year, the Sentencing Project released a 25 page report entitled, Too Good to be True – Private Prisons in America, by Cody Mason. In the first decade of this century, the number of state inmates in private prisons increased by 80%, but the number of Federal inmates, saw gains
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