Last year the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison company, received $74 million of taxpayers’ money to run immigration detention centers. Their largest facility in Lumpkin, Georgia, receives $200 a night for each of the 2,000 detainees it holds, and rakes in yearly profits between $35 million and $50 million.
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Prisoners held in this remote facility depend on the prison’s phones to communicate with their lawyers and loved ones. Exploiting inmates’ need, CCA charges detainees here $5 per minute to make phone calls. Yet the prison only pays inmates who work at the facility $1 a day.
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As Alternet points out, in the past few years, CCA has spent $14.8 million “lobbying for anti-immigration laws to ensure they have continuous access to fresh inmates and keep their money racket going.” Recent anti-immigration laws in Alabama and Georgia keep their facilities full and CCA profits high.
| — | Noam Chomsky (via r-i-o-t) (Source: historyisaweapon.com) |
…minus the corporate backing & the misspelled signs.
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99 Percenter of the Day: Legendary Jeopardy! contestant Ken Jennings just posted this image to his blog under the header “solidarity.”
What is sh*t just got real.
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99 Percenter of the Day: Legendary Jeopardy! contestant Ken Jennings just posted this image to his blog under the header “solidarity.”
What is sh*t just got real.
(Source: thedailywhat)
As usual, this applies to lots of countries, not just the US.
