\n
\nPrivate Prison Charges Inmates $5 a Minute for Phone Calls While They Work for $1 a Day<\/a><\/p>\n
\nLast year the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s
\n
\n<\/a>
\nlargest private prison company, received $74 million of taxpayers’ money
\nto run immigration detention centers.
\nGeorgia, receives $200 a night for each of the 2,000 detainees it holds,
\nand rakes in yearly profits between $35 million and $50 million.<\/p>\n\nPrisoners held in this remote facility depend on the prison’s phones
\nto communicate with their lawyers and loved ones. Exploiting inmates’
\nneed, CCA charges detainees here $5 per minute to make phone calls. Yet
\nthe prison only pays inmates who work at the facility $1 a day. At that
\nrate, it would take five days to pay for just one minute.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThey charge for food, too.<\/p>\n
\nAnd remember,
\n
\nCCA profits from anti-immigration laws, at taxpayer expense:<\/a><\/p>\n\nRecent anti-immigration laws in Alabama (HB56) and Georgia (HB87)
\nguarantee that neighbor facilities will have an influx of “product.”
\nIn the past few years, CCA has spent $14.8 million lobbying for
\nanti-immigration laws to ensure they have continuous access to fresh
\ninmates and keep their money racket going. In 2010 CCA CEO Damon
\nT. Hininger received $3,266,387 in total compensation.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nPrivate CEO profit for public injustice.
\nDoes that seem right to you?<\/p>\n\n
\n<\/a>
\n
\nWe don’t need a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia.<\/a>
\nSpend those tax dollars on rehabilitation and education instead.<\/p>\n\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
That’s $1 a day in pay and $5 a telephone minute. While CCA is collecting as much as $200 a day per inmate in your tax dollars and CCA’s CEO is compensated $3,266,387 from your tax dollars. Amanda Peterson Beadle wrote for ThinkProgress 16 November 2011, Private Prison Charges Inmates $5 a Minute for Phone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,1113,14,15,70,71,8,1381,72,21,22,3,178],"tags":[8817,2858,8705,8701,3392,3391,2002,8830,8730,2695,7,1297,3027,2712,60,6,180,8749],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-economy","category-education","category-ethics","category-gdoc","category-georgia","category-immigration","category-incarceration","category-planning","category-politics","category-transparency","category-vlcia","tag-cca","tag-corrections-corporation-of-america","tag-education","tag-georgia","tag-gouging","tag-greed","tag-hb-87","tag-immigration","tag-incarceration","tag-justice","tag-lowndes-county","tag-private-prison","tag-project-excel","tag-rehabilitation","tag-tax","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority","tag-vlcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}