Do not put your imprimatur on any private prisons at all. They all are focussed on making profit on the miseries they force on prisoners. Require state governments to administer their own prison systems, for accountabilty’s sake.

Corporate prisons are not in the rehabilitation business but in the making a quick buck off the misery of the people in jail. They are neither efficient or cost effective in the long term because short term profit is what matters to them. Only the worst of the worst should bein prison eveeryone else needs programs that reintegrate them into our cities and towns with skills that will actually help them make a living. This saves money in the long run and turns former prison inmates into tax payers. I have seen the untold misery that corporations have blighted our country with especially those who have absolutely no social conscience or responsibility for their fellow Americans. Jobs shipped overseas, tax breaks given to corporations to stay and they take the money and then ship jobs overseas. The devastating OIl Spill in the Gulf of Mexico which will never be cleaned up that ruined the lives of many of the citizens who depended on the Gulf for a living.


And then there are the lawsuits brought against the private prison industry for abusing children and providing absolutely no remedial programs. This is another reason why I find it difficult to support the National Democratic party and donate only to individual progressive candidates when I can afford to do it.


Charles Dicken’s could write another series of novels if he was alive today which would highlight the vast inequities in our present system.

The Golden Girl goes for the Gold, I am not suprised!