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Annual Privatization Report examines how states are enlisting the private sector to reduce spending on health insurance, roads, lotteries, alcohol, prisons and more LOS ANGELES, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal recently signed laws expanding school voucher programs that will allow low-income students in poor performing schools to attend private schools and expand the use of charter schools. These are the latest in a series of privatization moves...
Council of Prison Locals says federal prisons safer, more cost-effective than private counterparts WASHINGTON, March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council of Prison Locals (CPL) of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) today denounced a privatization plan by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) that would weaken prison security, jeopardize community safety and encourage states to take on additional debt. CCA Chief Corrections Officer and...
Miami Probation Officer Starts Online Petition TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Florida Department of Corrections activist took it upon herself to circulate an anti-prison privatization petition and gathered more than 23,000 signatures in just five days. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100127/IBTLOGO) Christina Bullins, a Miami probation officer supervisor, started the petition Sunday using signon.org. Just 48 hours later, 10,000 people signed....
Other state agencies cover billions in corrections expenses NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- State taxpayers pay, on average, 14 percent more on prisons than corrections department budgets reflect, according to a report released today by the Vera Institute of Justice. The report, The Price of Prisons: What Incarceration Costs Taxpayers, found that among the 40 states that responded to a survey, the total fiscal year 2010 taxpayer cost of prisons was $38.8 billion,...
Analysis of Impact on County, Municipalities, FRS, Is Needed TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Florida correctional officers asked lawmakers to conduct a thorough, nonpartisan cost-benefit analysis of the proposal to turn public prisons over to for-profit corporations. Officers traveled to Tallahassee for the third consecutive day to testify against a privatization proposal for Southern Florida that's being rushed through the legislature. (Logo:...
Wood Says Senate Committee Shows Proposed Closures Are All About Privatizing TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ken Wood, Acting President of Teamsters Local 2011, today denounced a Senate panel for releasing a prison-privatization bill this afternoon. The Senate Rules Committee released a bill that would require the Department of Corrections to privatize all prisons and other correctional facilities in 18 counties in the Southern half of the state. (Logo:...
As public sector prisons move towards the thin staffing level model of profit-making institutions, with their high turnover of personnel who are less connected to their occupation, a study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) warns of a potentially detrimental impact on prison quality."Until now, little has been known about the relative strengths and weaknesses of public and private prisons," says Professor Liebling of Cambridge University who led the research....
DALLAS, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Every day, thousands of federal inmates across the country are locked up in prisons...prisons that answer more to their shareholders than they do to the U.S. taxpayers. These private prisons are the subject of a months-long Dan Rather Reports investigation. Since 1997, the U.S. government has been outsourcing a growing percentage of its inmate population to private facilities. But unlike federally-owned and operated prisons, private prisons are not required...
DALLAS, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Securus Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of inmate communication services and innovative Offender and Case Management software design, today announced that it signed a 5-year contract renewal that includes the installation, operation, and maintenance of a sophisticated, centralized inmate calling system for twenty-five of the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) facilities. Highlights: Executed on June 1, 2009, the contract is for a five (5) year...
Local officials in the San Diego area have approved a private company's plans for a prison to house more than 2,000 illegal immigrants. The 40-acre site on Otay Mesa is close to a San Diego County prison and to the San Diego Correctional Facility, which Corrections Corp. of America already operates under contract to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. CCA's plans call for 1,488 beds in the first phase of the new facility and 684 in the second, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported Tuesday....
