boutons_deux
11-15-2011, 05:16 PM
..to ensure they have continuous access to fresh inmates and keep their money racket going.
Detainees: Working For $1 A Day, Using Phone for $5 A Minute
Correction Corporation of America’s Stewart facility in Lumpkin, Georgia is the largest private detention center in the nation. It holds 2000 detainees, charging taxpayers up to $200 a night and producing yearly profits that hover between $35 and $50 million. The facility secures more income through cost cutting measures that range from denying basic necessary services to detained immigrants to limiting access to their family members.
CCA charges inmates more than $5 a minute to make a phone call. To pay for this, inmates work in the facility and earn a whopping $1 a day. Five days of hard work gives them just enough time for a one minute phone call.
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2011/11/15/detainees-working-for-1-a-day-using-phone-for-5-a-minute/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=alternet
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$6000/month to hold an illegal immigrant, a reason PIC doesn't want illegal immigration "solved".
Detainees: Working For $1 A Day, Using Phone for $5 A Minute
Correction Corporation of America’s Stewart facility in Lumpkin, Georgia is the largest private detention center in the nation. It holds 2000 detainees, charging taxpayers up to $200 a night and producing yearly profits that hover between $35 and $50 million. The facility secures more income through cost cutting measures that range from denying basic necessary services to detained immigrants to limiting access to their family members.
CCA charges inmates more than $5 a minute to make a phone call. To pay for this, inmates work in the facility and earn a whopping $1 a day. Five days of hard work gives them just enough time for a one minute phone call.
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2011/11/15/detainees-working-for-1-a-day-using-phone-for-5-a-minute/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=alternet
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$6000/month to hold an illegal immigrant, a reason PIC doesn't want illegal immigration "solved".