Guardian
Privately operated government prisons, which mostly detain migrants convicted of immigration offenses, are drastically more unsafe and punitive than other prisons in the federal system, a stinging investigation by the US Department of Justice’s inspector general has found.
Inmates at these 14 contract prisons, the only centers in the federal prison system that are privately operated, were nine times more likely to be placed on lockdown than inmates at other federal prisons and were frequently subjected to arbitrary solitary confinement. In two of the three contract prisons investigators routinely visited, new inmates were automatically placed in solitary confinement as a way of combating overcrowding, rather than for disciplinary issues.
The review also found that contract prison inmates were more likely to complain about medical care, treatment by prison staff and about the quality of food.
Contract prisons almost exclusively incarcerate low-risk inmates convicted of immigration offenses. These facilities house around 22,000 individuals, mostly deemed “low risk”, at an annual cost of $600m.
2 comments:
Thank Clintons for the crime bills of 1994, 1995, & 1996 that made this all so possible---and you, Sam, keep trying to convince us that it is Trump we should fear?
Call a spade a spade every once in a while, eh?
You're waxing the party polemicist of late, needless to suggest that our respect for you as 'journalist' has waned considerably.
I am not voting for Hillary, but Anonymous's comments about Sam going easy on the Clinton's bother me as I have seen article after article anout the criminality of the Clintons in the Review over the years including a not5e today about the lack of Clinton transparency. If Anonymous wants to support the fascists (and Trump is a clssic fascist) you are welcmome to, but lying about what Sam is writing iand printing is just stupid.
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