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And what do you think happens to Constitutional rights and protections from cruel and unusual treatment when private corporations own what is the government's responsibility?  If you believe that your rights to quality nutrition or medical care or protection from other inmates are protected no matter who owns the prison, you're deluding yourself.  

In exchange for keeping at least a 90 percent occupancy rate, the private prison company Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) has sent a letter to 48 states offering to manage their prisons for the low price of $250 million per year, according to a letter obtained by the Huffington Post

The company says it’s a way for states to help manage their current budget crisis. “We believe this comes at a timely and helpful juncture and hope you will share our belief in the benefits of the purchase-and-manage model,” CCA chief corrections officer Harley Lappin said in the letter.

But reports indicate that private prisons do not actually save states money, since the average inmate costing more than in public prisons. Worse yet, for-profit prisons have been accused of heightened levels of violence toward prisoners and have limited incentives to reduce future crimes by current inmates, through education and training programs, counseling or drug and alcohol rehabilitation, according to a report from the American Civil Liberties Union.

Last year, the CCA became the first for-profit prison company to buy outright a state-owned prison, under the auspices of the Administration of Ohio Governor John Kasich (R).

Whether it's substandard food (or as is happening now, fewer meals on weekends to save on staff salaries), or inmates dying of heat stroke from cells reaching temperatures of 108 degrees, America is being turned into a third world nation by paid off politicians doing the work of corporations.
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