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08-10-2014, 09:48 AM
1,000 Ohio Inmates Dump Their Lunches Over Maggot Infestation (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/08/08/3469027/1000-michigan-inmates-dump-their-lunches-over-maggot-infestation/)
Since Michigan turned over food services at its prisons to a private contractor in December, the state has seen a spate of maggot infestations in and around prison food,outbreaks of food poisoning (http://www.freep.com/article/20140630/NEWS06/306300136/prison-food-maggots-Aramark), and meal shortages (http://www.freep.com/article/20140624/NEWS06/306240074/aramark-prison-food-privatization). In Ohio this week, inmates facing the second maggott infestation this year at their facility dumped their lunch trays (http://www.abc6onyourside.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/inmates-claim-maggots-found-prison-food-second-time-34012.shtml#.U-Ps3fldWSq) in the garbage en masse in protest.
In both states, the problems have come since they turned over their food services to private contractor Aramark. In the latest in a series of moves toward privatization of prison services, Michigan signed the three-year, $145 million contract with Aramark last year. The contract displaced some 370 prison workers, according to the Detroit Free Press, and the company pays workers about half as much as the state had been paying its employees for food service.
According to MLive columnist Steve Miller, “the state almost shelved the idea (http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2014/07/steve_miller_why_did_aramark_g.html) of privatizing food service for the state’s prisons when it determined that its savings would not be enough to justify it. At the last minute, though,several Republican lawmakers (http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/05/01/michigan-privatizing-prison-food-service/) insisted that the deal be made.”
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/08/08/3469027/1000-michigan-inmates-dump-their-lunches-over-maggot-infestation/?icamp=recirc&iref=gravity&imed=rr1x4
A great parallel to the VRWC-destruction of public schools so taxpayers $Ms are given to for-profit schools where maggot-infested ideas are indoctrinated.
the for-profit strategy: shittiest possible product for the highest possible price
Since Michigan turned over food services at its prisons to a private contractor in December, the state has seen a spate of maggot infestations in and around prison food,outbreaks of food poisoning (http://www.freep.com/article/20140630/NEWS06/306300136/prison-food-maggots-Aramark), and meal shortages (http://www.freep.com/article/20140624/NEWS06/306240074/aramark-prison-food-privatization). In Ohio this week, inmates facing the second maggott infestation this year at their facility dumped their lunch trays (http://www.abc6onyourside.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/inmates-claim-maggots-found-prison-food-second-time-34012.shtml#.U-Ps3fldWSq) in the garbage en masse in protest.
In both states, the problems have come since they turned over their food services to private contractor Aramark. In the latest in a series of moves toward privatization of prison services, Michigan signed the three-year, $145 million contract with Aramark last year. The contract displaced some 370 prison workers, according to the Detroit Free Press, and the company pays workers about half as much as the state had been paying its employees for food service.
According to MLive columnist Steve Miller, “the state almost shelved the idea (http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2014/07/steve_miller_why_did_aramark_g.html) of privatizing food service for the state’s prisons when it determined that its savings would not be enough to justify it. At the last minute, though,several Republican lawmakers (http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/05/01/michigan-privatizing-prison-food-service/) insisted that the deal be made.”
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/08/08/3469027/1000-michigan-inmates-dump-their-lunches-over-maggot-infestation/?icamp=recirc&iref=gravity&imed=rr1x4
A great parallel to the VRWC-destruction of public schools so taxpayers $Ms are given to for-profit schools where maggot-infested ideas are indoctrinated.
the for-profit strategy: shittiest possible product for the highest possible price