PRIVATIZATION
February 24, 2015
Today’s broadcast of “Democracy
Now!” includes a 15-minute segment on prison privatization, centered on the
current federal prisoners’ protest or strike (aka “uprising” or “riot”) at a
private, for-profit prison in Texas (http://www.democracynow.org/2015/2/24/revolt_at_ritmo_dire_conditions_in
). I recommend it for classroom
use. It does a nice job of describing
conditions endemic to private prisons.
It speaks directly to the problems of private, for-profit incarceration
nationwide. What privatization does to
our politically least eligible class of customers is perhaps the most glaring
case of the problem of lack of public accountability that privatization of all
government services presents. Love and
peace, hal
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