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The Price We Pay

By Michael Blankenship

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing state prison officials and a private company, claiming violence is so rampant at the Idaho Correctional Center that it's known as "gladiator school" among inmates. The ACLU said it would file the lawsuit Thursday against Nashville, Tenn.-based Corrections Corp. of America in U.S. District Court in Boise. The lawsuit says Idaho's only private prison is extraordinarily violent, with guards deliberately exposing inmates to brutal beatings from other prisoners as a management tool. The group contends the prison then denies injured inmates medical care to save money and hide the extent of injuries. Read more... It does not take a great deal of effort to discover what a disaster that for-profit prisons have been for everyone except stockholders...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on March 11, 2010 (boomark / email).