'These people are profitable': Under Trump, private prisons are cashing in on ICE detainees

[Penelope]

“What somebody else thinks about Billy McConnell compared with what God thinks of Billy McConnell is almost irrelevant,” he said, noting that he carries a crucifix at all times and ministers to detainees locked inside detention centers. “We don’t arrest ’em. We don’t try ’em. I know what the laws on the books say, and I’m a guy who goes by the rules.”
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The booming business spends $3 billion a year housing a record high of roughly 50,000 people, the majority of whom have no criminal record.
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Trump has received more than 25 times the amount of contributions that President Barack Obama received over his entire eight years in office – $969,000 to Trump and $38,000 to Obama. The industry donated to people inside Trump’s inner circle, including Vice President Mike Pence, former Energy Secretary Rick Perry and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley while each served as governor of their home states.

Private prison companies spent millions more in federal lobbying efforts and hired people in Trump’s orbit, including former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who works at the White House, and Brian Ballard, Trump’s former campaign finance chief in the critical swing state of Florida.
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Tramp made more off a robust lobby money from private prison which sparked his defunding the Central Triangle,

By obstructing the use of FY2018 national security funding and seeking to terminate similar funding from FY2017, you are personally undermining efforts to promote U.S. national security and economic prosperity, including:

Menendez, Carper and More than 30 Democratic Senators Warn Pres. Trump against Cutting Funding to Northern Triangle Countries | United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

WASHINGTON – Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations...

www.foreign.senate.gov

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Is this some shit you forgot to post from 2019?

 

[Penelope]

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Is this some shit you forgot to post from 2019?

He finally due to the writing the letter, he decided to restore the money, he got caught trying to defund the Central Triangle and obviously the republicans didn't care.

In Oct 2019
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration said Wednesday it will partially restart the flow of U.S. aid to three Central American countries that President Donald Trump had sought to punish over migration to the U.S.
In shift, Trump administration says it will restore some U.S. aid to Central America

 

[Polishprince]

How much do libs get from public employee unions who are opposed to prisons being contracted to the Private Sector?

 

[Penelope]

How much do libs get from public employee unions who are opposed to prisons being contracted to the Private Sector?

Ask them? Tramp and his people made a lot more, it was dems that wrote the letter.
Meanwhile we send 3.8 billon to Israel to a developed country, why?

republicans are against unions, they are private institutions.
“Often, correctional officers who work in private prisons are not part of a union, and the reason so many corrections officers in the private sector are not unionized is because it's cheaper to hire individuals who don't necessarily need pensions,” Eisen said.Mar 10, 2020

As Private Prisons Push To Keep Costs Down, Workers Can ...​

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

He finally due to the writing the letter, he decided to restore the money, he got caught trying to defund the Central Triangle and obviously the republicans didn't care.

In Oct 2019
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration said Wednesday it will partially restart the flow of U.S. aid to three Central American countries that President Donald Trump had sought to punish over migration to the U.S.
In shift, Trump administration says it will restore some U.S. aid to Central America

Wow...but check out what I found on Warren G. Harding! Crazy! Scandalous! This will blow your mind!

Historians have long regarded Warren G. Harding’s administration as the most corrupt in the twentieth century. Ultimately, three of the President’s appointees, including a cabinet officer, went to jail. His attorney general was tried twice by juries that failed to reach a verdict after the defendant refused to testify. The Attorney General’s closest friend and confidant committed suicide, as did the chief counsel of the Veterans’ Bureau.

Harding and Teapot Dome

Prior to Watergate, Harding's bribery ring was regarded as the greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics.

www.americanheritage.com

 

[Polishprince]

Ask them? Tramp and his people made a lot more, it was dems that wrote the letter.
Meanwhile we send 3.8 billon to Israel to a developed country, why?

republicans are against unions, they are private institutions.

Israel is our friend, and they are surrounded by enemies.

Do you think that it would be smart to have them fall and a terrorist government control the Holy Land?

 

[Penelope]

Wow...but check out what I found on Warren G. Harding! Crazy! Scandalous! This will blow your mind!

Historians have long regarded Warren G. Harding’s administration as the most corrupt in the twentieth century. Ultimately, three of the President’s appointees, including a cabinet officer, went to jail. His attorney general was tried twice by juries that failed to reach a verdict after the defendant refused to testify. The Attorney General’s closest friend and confidant committed suicide, as did the chief counsel of the Veterans’ Bureau.

Harding and Teapot Dome

Prior to Watergate, Harding's bribery ring was regarded as the greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics.

www.americanheritage.com

Look at the Iran Contra Scandel.

Israel is our friend, and they are surrounded by enemies.

Do you think that it would be smart to have them fall and a terrorist government control the Holy Land?

Are they really our friends?? that's debatable, the Pals in Gaza suffer from the largest prison in the world why they (the Israel's)are stealing Pals land and homes in the West Bank.

 

[Penelope]

Wow...but check out what I found on Warren G. Harding! Crazy! Scandalous! This will blow your mind!

Historians have long regarded Warren G. Harding’s administration as the most corrupt in the twentieth century. Ultimately, three of the President’s appointees, including a cabinet officer, went to jail. His attorney general was tried twice by juries that failed to reach a verdict after the defendant refused to testify. The Attorney General’s closest friend and confidant committed suicide, as did the chief counsel of the Veterans’ Bureau.

Harding and Teapot Dome

Prior to Watergate, Harding's bribery ring was regarded as the greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics.

www.americanheritage.com

Not as big as the Iran Contra Scandal. and Reagan knew exactly what he was doing.

One of the biggest foreign policy scandals of the last half-century was the Iran-Contra affair, in which the Reagan Administration, prodded by CIA Director William Casey and NSC Advisor Oliver North, secretly arranged for an arms-for-hostage deal with one of its bitterest enemies in the Middle East. Put simply, Israel would sell weapons from the U.S. to Iran, which had been designated a State Sponsor of Terrorism in 1984 and the subject of an arms embargo, in exchange for the release of American hostages held by Hezbollah, Iran’s ally, in Lebanon.

The Iran-Contra Scandal – Association for Diplomatic Studies & Training

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[Penelope]

We are talking private prison lobbying tramp with money, so they keep their prisons full of illegal immigrants.

 

[Polishprince]

Look at the Iran Contra Scandel.

Are they really our friends?? that's debatable, the Pals in Gaza suffer from the largest prison in the world why they (the Israel's)are stealing Pals land and homes in the West Bank.

"iran Contra" was a fake scandal.

American Hero Oliver North was ultimately exonerated from any crimes.

All that Colonel North was doing was trying to help our friends who were under siege in Nicaragua. The dastardly Boland Amendment prohibited giving US aid to Freedom Fighters, and North- independently on his own- found a way around it and engaged in civil disobedience against an unjust law. A modern day Rosa Parks.

Even though he was exonerated, North ended up paying the ultimate price for his Patriotism, being denied his seat on the US Senate due to liberal attacks on him for his patriotism.

 

[Polishprince]

We are talking private prison lobbying tramp with money, so they keep their prisons full of illegal immigrants.

If Biden did the right thing and deported the Illegals, the private prisons would have as much business.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

He finally due to the writing the letter, he decided to restore the money, he got caught trying to defund the Central Triangle and obviously the republicans didn't care.

Why should we be funding the NORTHERN Triangle?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Meanwhile we send 3.8 billon to Israel to a developed country, why?

Because.....fuck the Muslims.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

We are talking private prison lobbying tramp with money, so they keep their prisons full of illegal immigrants.

I have to disagree here. Agreements with private prisons (95% capacity) were struck long before Trump. Now, may he have exacerbated that? Maybe, but I think Trump was just one, in a long line of scumbags.

 

[Polishprince]

I have to disagree here. Agreements with private prisons (95% capacity) were struck long before Trump. Now, may he have exacerbated that? Maybe, but I think Trump was just one, in a long line of scumbags.

What's "scummy" about setting up a business to contract with the government for prison services?

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

If Biden did the right thing and deported the Illegals, the private prisons would have as much business.

Yes. They had preexisting agreements that mandated states to keep them at specific capacity.

Article from 2013
Occupancy requirements, as it turns out, are common practice within the private prison industry. A new report by In the Public Interest, an anti-privatization group, reviewed 62 contracts for private prisons operating around the country at the local and state level. In the Public Interest found that 41 of those contracts included occupancy requirements mandating that local or state government keep those facilities between 80 and 100 percent full. In other words, whether crime is rising or falling, the state must keep those beds full. (The report was funded by grants from the Open Society Institute and Public Welfare, according to a spokesman.)

This is how private prison corporations make millions even when crime goes down

So-called occupancy requirements make sure private prisons stay filled, often at the expense of taxpayers.

www.motherjones.com

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

What's "scummy" about setting up a business to contract with the government for prison services?

Ref P17

 

[Polishprince]

Ref P17

If private contractors can house convicted criminals at less cost to the taxpayer than public employees can, how is that "scummy".

I'd call that COMPETITION, IMHO.

Maybe if the unions were to renegotiate their contract with the state?

 

[BrokeLoser]

“What somebody else thinks about Billy McConnell compared with what God thinks of Billy McConnell is almost irrelevant,” he said, noting that he carries a crucifix at all times and ministers to detainees locked inside detention centers. “We don’t arrest ’em. We don’t try ’em. I know what the laws on the books say, and I’m a guy who goes by the rules.”
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The booming business spends $3 billion a year housing a record high of roughly 50,000 people, the majority of whom have no criminal record.
snip
Trump has received more than 25 times the amount of contributions that President Barack Obama received over his entire eight years in office – $969,000 to Trump and $38,000 to Obama. The industry donated to people inside Trump’s inner circle, including Vice President Mike Pence, former Energy Secretary Rick Perry and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley while each served as governor of their home states.

Private prison companies spent millions more in federal lobbying efforts and hired people in Trump’s orbit, including former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who works at the White House, and Brian Ballard, Trump’s former campaign finance chief in the critical swing state of Florida.
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Tramp made more off a robust lobby money from private prison which sparked his defunding the Central Triangle,

By obstructing the use of FY2018 national security funding and seeking to terminate similar funding from FY2017, you are personally undermining efforts to promote U.S. national security and economic prosperity, including:

Menendez, Carper and More than 30 Democratic Senators Warn Pres. Trump against Cutting Funding to Northern Triangle Countries | United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

WASHINGTON – Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations...

www.foreign.senate.gov

We are talking private prison lobbying tramp with money, so they keep their prisons full of illegal immigrants.

This seems like another case of twisted Leftists struggling with the causation principle.
Consider this...no beaners = no beaner camps
Wouldn’t it make sense for you Hate America types to stop incentivizing Mexicos human cockroaches?