If you want to discuss the immigration reform issues in this country, you might want to consider the whole story. Undocumented immigrants have become a commodity, and taxpayers are flipping the bill to house many of them in often distant for-profit prisons where they’re further cut off from family, counselors and health care, and where staffs are all too frequently short and under-trained. And why? So corporations can turn a profit … to the tune of billions of dollars per year? WTF?!
This is a human rights and civil rights issue, and if you don’t think so you’re shortchanging the issue.
It’s also a where-in-the-hell-is-our-tax-money-going issue. We pay three times as much to house any inmate in for-profit prisons.
And just because Mecklenburg County rejected an opportunity to build a for-profit prison here doesn’t mean we’re not involved in this game; we ship our immigrants to a facility just outside of Atlanta.
Check out this video, “Immigrants for Sale,” for more information:
This article appears in Best of Charlotte 2011.
3 time to house in for profit prison compared to what? For profit is supposed to be much cheaper so you really need to cough up some numbers here to back up what you are saying.
Most everything in our life deals with for profit companies so I do not see a problem with for profit prisons.
Than government-run facilities. What else?
You don’t see a problem with for profit prisons? Really?