SACRAMENTO — California has signed a contract with private prison contractor Geo Group to lease space for 1,400 inmates in overcrowded state lockups.
The company announced the contract early Monday morning, even before Gov. Jerry Brown learns whether federal judges will grant his request for a three-year delay in the courts’ orders to cap the prison population. The governor’s lawyers have asked judges to make their own decision by Friday. Full Article
This will not end well. The private prison industry’s ridiculous notion that they are entitled to profit and prison population levels runs counter to the public’s interest. Just look at what’s been happening in Florida with the judges who were just convicted and sentenced to 60 years for selling minors into the prison system when they should have gotten nothing more than probation.
Then they use those profits to lobby lawmakers for tougher sentencing guidelines to keep those beds filled and their profits high.
It’s time to get money out of politics.
california is so unique compared to other states as far as prisons go.. playing games with with those that have no idea. prisons for profit is bad bad. think about it getting paid to lock up another human,and for profit, go get em, lets make some money wharehousing people buy stock now, it is public just as public as my picture on internet, they didn’t even have internet when i done my crime 1982. ca. is 137% over compassity, and gman brown is playing the shuffle. thank you . greg scot