Private Prisons

... appealed to state legislators and other governmental bodies on the grounds that they are less expensive to operate than public prisons. Critics of private prisons believe that they actually create an incentive for legislators to promote prison expansion because private corporations building facilities at their own expense legislators can bypass having to go to voters for the approval of bond issues to ... can buy have spread the influence of prison companies. There is little doubt that the current administration will continue the trend. With 42 private prisons located within its borders...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... American corporations relies on prison labor due to its extreme inexpensive costs. Companies have even moved their assembly lines to the U.S. for the sol purpose of using prison labor, while private prisons turn a massive profit. In 2011 the Correction Corporation of America earned 1.7 billion dollars in total revenue. The CEO of CCA, Damon T. Hininger, received a 3.7 million dollar executive compensation ... in 2011. Private prisons make millions of dollars for selling their labor and still the laborers earn next to nothing. After extorting this labor, CCA profits rose from $392 millio...

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... sentences are hardly candidates for rehabilitation. Then, too, a number of human rights groups are concerned about the disproportionate numbers of members of minority groups who are found in prisons. They question whether this is a coincidence or the result of racial discrimination. A 1998 Associated Press report drew attention to the plight of ex-prisoners to the Holmesburg Prison ... Cooma was to be closed, people protested. Why? Because, the prison for many provided employment for the economically struggling community. In recent times some governments have sold their prisons to private...

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• Grade Level: High School

... the death penalty in 1965 imprisonment has been the most serious penalty the courts can impose in Britain. Essentially this essay will evaluate prisons as the central form of punishment at the start of the 21st century. One must first discuss what the central aim of punishment ... is. This needs to be examined, as it is essential to understand what effect one is expecting from the punishment and thus whether prisons are the best form for these aims to be achieved. There are four main theories of punishment; retribution, deterrence, incapacitation and rehabilitation. ... for vengeance t...

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Animal Prisons The first zoos were private collections of wild animals established by kings and other rich people for their own amusement. The keeping of wild animals in private collections dates back to the Ancient Egyptians, approximately 3500 BC. The pharaohs imported many animals to Egypt. Expeditions brought back monkeys, leopards, cheetahs, various birds, large cattle, and even giraffe. ... well as the health of others around them, whether it be humans, or other animals. Animals kept in captivity are often very unhappy, and in turn, unhealthy. Also, people with private collections of a...

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... troubling (Franklin, 1982). Prison privatization is the most obvious instance of capital's current movement toward the prison industry. While government run prisons are often in gross violation of international human rights standards, private prisons are even are often in gross violation of international human rights standards, private prisons are even less accountable. In March of this year, the Correction Corporation of America (CCA), the largest ... U.S. private prison company, claimed 59,944 beds in 68 facilities under contract or development in the U.S. But private prison companies...

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... and today, California faces a mandate to reduce it by 10%. Historically, California has turned to short term solutions such as out-of-state and private prisons, and while they provide temporary relief, the root of the problem, and thus the solution, lies somewhere else; it lies in the judicial system ... and within three years, nearly 68% were rearrested for a new offense (Alexander, 94.) Shipping prisoners out of state or locking them up in private prisons are short term solutions. A different approach must be implemented to permanently fix the problem. If California is serious about thi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... to local, state or federal custody the custodian has an ethical and legal obligation to care for their health and well-being as they can no longer care for themselves. Private prisons such as CCA and others are exempt from public disclosure of records unlike their state and federally run counter-parts. Citizen for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) recently ... released a report calling for private prisons to face the same requirement to disclose as public prisons. With regard to legal issues, in this case they parallel ethical issues. Private prisons have the same obligation...

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... with the help of a dictionary and other books he obtained from the Norfolk Prison Colony School. Upon further studying I found that in 1995, over eighty percent of federal and state prisons offered a general equivalency diploma and offered classes to help inmates achieve this goal. At that time a quarter of all prisoners were involved in GED programs. Over forty percent of ... my argument purely on a movie, even the one based on a true story, so I personally spoke with 6 individuals who had spent time in Massachusetts state prisons. The majority of them had either been to Billerica or W...

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• Grade Level: High School