Ending the Giant Federal and For-Profit Prison Collusion

found online by Raymond

 
From Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post:

To its credit, the Obama administration’s Department of Justice announced last week that it was soon ending its reliance on private prisons to house federal inmates. As one who has opposed private, for-profit prisons since I first learned of them, this was very welcome and long overdue news indeed!

Shane Bauer, a superb investigative journalist who has written several articles critical of the for-profit prison industry for Mother Jones, actually spent 4 months working undercover as a prison guard at a Louisiana for-profit prison owned by Correction Corporation of America, is no stranger to prisons: he and two other Americans were booked on phony spying charges by the Iranian government after they had mistakenly hiked into Iranian territory along the Iraq-Iran border in 2009. He, his future wife Sarah Shourd, and and fellow hiker Josh Fattal were convicted of espionage on trumped-up charges and spent well over a year in a brutal Iranian prison.

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