Quick update on the growing cost of mass incarceration in the United States -- The only real Midwest growth industry . . . Here's a look at the desperate effort to lock up more people . . . Mostly for being too poor to mount an adequate defense against drug/or slap fighting charges . . . Like most of our football heroes:
Millions spent to accommodate overflow in Kansas prisons
Kansas prisons have exceeded their operating capacity and it will cost the state millions of dollars to move hundreds of inmates to a privately owned prison in Arizona. KCUR-FM reports a one-year contract with the Kansas Department of Corrections and CoreCivic was announced this month.
Pile them in Lansing, El Dorado and Hutchinson like cordwood.
ReplyDeleteThe responsibility for prison overcrowding lie solely at the feet of the prisoners who committed the crimes that put them there. If they don't like living on top of 15 other guys then maybe they shoudl have thought twice about committing a crime.
CoreCivic Stock price: CXW (NYSE) $15.92 +0.58 (+3.78%)
ReplyDeleteWow this should give the shareholders a little boost in dividends
^^^ Biz is looking good in the for profit prison arena.
ReplyDeleteA bright future
Better pick up some CoreCivic tomorrow at the opening bell.
ReplyDeleteInstitute a 3 strikes your executed policy. Creates room in the system and serves as a warning to would be criminals to stay out of Kansas
ReplyDeleteMaybe it’s time to start mass executions, that’ll help a bunch
ReplyDeletejust release them and give them one way tickets to Oklahoma
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