World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/06/30-0

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The Corrupt Corporate Incarceration Complex

William Fisher, Truthout: 'In Scranton, Pennsylvania, two judges pleaded guilty to operating a kickback scheme involving juvenile offenders. The judges, Mark Ciavarella Jr. and Michael Conahan, took more than $2.6 million in kickbacks from a private prison company to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers. Since 2003, Ciaverella had sentenced an estimated 5,000 juveniles. Conahan was accused of setting up the contracts. Many of the youngsters shipped off to the detention centers were first-time offenders.'

http://www.truth-out.org/public-private-incarceration-complex/1309275395

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Kidnapping and Ransom Rampant in the US
http://lewrockwell.com/berwick/berwick19.1.html

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Addicted to incarceration

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

11/15/11

Whatever its outward objectives, the War on Drugs is in fact primarily an economic distortion, formulated - deliberately or not - to accomplish specific goals. Among these goals is to provide life support for an unparalleled and well-documented mass incarceration society...

http://c4ss.org/content/8935



The shocking ways the corporate prison industry games the system

AlterNet
by Rania Khalek

11/29/11

Just a decade ago, private prisons were a dying industry awash in corruption and mired in lawsuits, particularly Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation s largest private prison operator. Today, these companies are booming once again, yet the lawsuits and scandals continue to pile up. Meanwhile, more and more evidence shows that compared to publicly run prisons, private jails are filthier, more violent, less accountable, and contrary to what privatization advocates peddle as truth, do not save money...

http://bit.ly/w1WClQ


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Suit Claims Prisoners Are Mistreated

Norman Shelton, claims prison officials twice forced him to share cells with inmates they knew would beat him because he is a Muslim. When he had objected to other dangerous cell assignments, he alleges, guards put him in restraints so restrictive he now has scars and nerve damage.

http://on.wsj.com/ukh2sW


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=industrial+complex
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=prison+industry
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=global+war+on+drugs
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=detention
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=incarcerat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporat
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