U.S. Prison Business: Privatize Profits, Socialize Losses
Submitted by mythirdij on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 07:05The U.S. prison population continues to explode, as America plunges headlong into becoming a bona fide police state. The federal policies of criminalizing just about everything, offer a built-in growth sector for any corporation that can capture it. No wonder, then, that companies like GE have gotten in on the action, while the nation's largest private contractors, Corrections Corporation of America and GEO (formerly Wackenhut), have combined revenues well into the billions of dollars per year. And they are international in scope.
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