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What?!? Private Prisons Suing States For Millions If They Don’t Stay Full
Monday, December 2, 2013 20:28
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The prison-industrial complex is so out of control that private prisons have the sheer audacity to order states to keep beds full or face their wrath with stiff financial penalties, according to reports. Private prisons in some states have language in their contracts that state if they fall below a certain percentage of capacity that the states must pay the private prisons millions of dollars, lest they face a lawsuit for millions more.
And guess what? The private prisons, which are holding cash-starved states hostage, are getting away with it, says advocacy group, In the Public Interest. MORE HERE
Capitalism is theft and exploitation of labor. That’s why they shipped out all our jobs to China. The further privatization of state and federal agencies is the capitalists intent on rawdogging what jobs they couldn’t ship overseas or give to illegal aliens.