Privatization

[Joeybagadonuts]

BOISE, Idaho — A gang war that appears to have taken over parts of an Idaho private prison is spilling into the federal courts, with some inmates contending prison officials are ceding control to gang leaders in an effort to save money on staffing.
Eight inmates at the Idaho Correctional Center are suing the Corrections Corporation of America, contending the company is working with a few powerful prison gangs to control the facility south of Boise.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in Boise's U.S. District Court, paints the prison as a place where correctional officers work in fear of angering inmate gang members and where housing supervisors ask permission from gang leaders before moving anyone new into an empty cell. The inmates also contend that CCA officials use gang violence and the threat of gang violence as an "inexpensive device to gain control over the inmate population," according to the lawsuit, and that housing gang members together allows the company to use fewer guards, reducing payroll costs.


http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20121113/US.Prison.Gang.War/

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

gangnam style! hahah

 

[CHNOPS]

Serious question: isn't that essentially what "screws" have always been?

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

Serious question: isn't that essentially what "screws" have always been?

It's been at least 10 years since I had any significant prison experience. During my time the administration and officers controlled the jail to an extent. There is also in internal structure run by inmates and co-opted staff. The prisons I worked in the inmates could have taken parts or all the jail any time. During my time the wars were between factions of Muslims. The New World Muslims and the World Community of Islam.

Since that time the gangs have taken over. From what I've been told the gangs have infiltrated the ranks correction officers. Either government or private, we operate factories turning out people all over the country, most but not all, as bad or worse than they went in.

We need to decriminalize many crimes. We just have to many people we classify as criminals and that of course, has a multiple effect on families.

It's a serious problem if we continue to incarcerate people for crimes of which they are the only victim.


I just realized I never answered your question. What was it?