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This is what happens when you have for profit prisons.
http://www.alternet.org/human-right...ds-find-300-more-prisoners-60-days-or-it-will
http://www.alternet.org/human-right...ds-find-300-more-prisoners-60-days-or-it-will
The nation’s second-largest private prison corporation is holding New Mexico politicians hostage by threatening to close unless the state or federal authorities find 300 more prisoners to be warehoused there, according to local news reports.
The paper said that county officials issued a statement citing the threatened closure and emphasized that every virtually every politician in the region, from county officials to state officials to congressmen, were scurrying to save jobs—as opposed to shutting a privatized prison by an operator that has been sued many times for sexual harassment, sexual assault, deaths, use of force, physical assaults, medical care, injuries and civil rights violations.