Posted on 09/16/2019 1:16:23 PM PDT by Red Badger
Ilhan Omar praised corrupt California for moving ahead with a bill to ban private prisons. The new legislation would come into effect after the 2020 presidential election “on or after January 1, 2020” and would prohibit California’s government from “entering into or renewing a contract with a private, for-profit prison to incarcerate state inmates.”
Where will they put these people? They don’t care as long as it’s not in prison. The attack on private prisons is an attack on ICE detention.
This is an important step. No one should profit from putting human beings in cages — especially in a system designed to incarcerate people of color and Indigenous people. We must pass federal legislation to abolish ICE and fund restorative justice practices. https://t.co/P4DzpP5I3o
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) September 13, 2019
People actually buy into this and follow people like Omar. Take the ralliers who think half the nation are Nazis as an example. GOP ARE RACIST, NAZIS RALLY
A reporter for The Federalist went to the ‘GOP Is Racist‘ rally in Baltimore and recounted in word and video what took place.
They want ICE out of Baltimore and are calling the President the ‘rat,’ after he referred to Baltimore as rat infested.
An entire section at the protest was dedicated to abolishing ICE. A woman with a CASA [communist, open borders] t-shirt wants to abolish ICE because this isn’t America’s land.
“For the ones we owe anything are the Native Americans who we stand in their land, not our own,” she said.
You will find that many of these radicals believe Mexicans and others from south of the border own the land. Many are Reconquista.
They were also in solidarity with communist dictator Nicolas Maduro who destroyed his own country.
One woman even wore a shirt that said, “Nicolas… the people support you.”
They claim the GOP is complicit in white supremacy.
The radicals also love abortion. The unborn babies are just a “clump of cells,” they insisted. Their remarkable lack of intelligence and regard for human life is astonishing.
A FEW OF THE CLIPS:
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They all seem to think it was proven that President Trump colluded with Russia.
There is much more at the Federalist, check it out if you are interested. The one thing that seems apparent to me is this goes beyond ignorance and indoctrination. They’re just stupid ideologues. OCCUPY WALL STREET — SAME PEOPLE, SAME IDEOLOGY
None of this is surprising. I went undercover to a number of Occupy Wall Street rallies, MoveOn meetings, and communist forums. They are all communists or close to it, driven by misinformation and have a notable absence of curiosity. They just mindlessly follow their professors or whoever is leading them, chanting whatever they’re told to chant. It’s frightening to see how easy it is to manipulate the minds of some people. It’s Jonestown with a different kind of Kool-Aid.
While accusing innocent Republicans of being Nazis, they themselves are budding Nazis.
The Occupy rallies in 2011 were funded in part by Soros groups and other corporations. Many protesters were paid and they said they had plenty of money. Professors from universities like CUNY were teaching them in groups on how to pose for photos and make it look like the cops were the villains. Many were excitedly asking when they could jump the gates and go after the police.
They also had their bizarre heroes, — a cop killer – Mumis, traitor Bradley Manning, and so on.
There were a lot of smelly — literally smelly — old commies.
The woman at the end of the next video, who wouldn’t let me tape her training sessions on how to riot, is a communist professor at CUNY.
This terrorist gal is a danger to our country.
I never noticed a difference between public and private prisons...
Wait, never mind.
I guess she never considered that if we enacted Sharia Laws, then most of those ‘incarcerated’ would be maimed or executed instead.................
I think the private prisons pay is better.................
#jihadi
I think not. My info is from the 90s and 2000s. But I am sure the benefits are worse in the private sector. Typically the states pay a very good pension that privates don’t come close to.
In Cal and NY the unions have bribed politicians for decades and that keeps the pay higher than the privates. In NM where I consulted the privates paid 87% of the state and they had a newer facility.
Apparently you are right:
Florida Private Prisons Seek $4 Million for Employee Raises
Loaded on Dec. 7, 2018 by David Reutter published in Prison Legal News December, 2018, page 58
Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Management and Training Corporation, Guards/Staff, State Legislation. Location: Florida.
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by David M. Reutter
In a show of continued support for privately-operated prisons, the Florida legislature considered giving the state’s for-profit prison contractors a $4 million raise.
The GEO Group, MTC and CoreCivic, formerly Corrections Corporation of America, have had contracts to operate prisons in Florida since the 1990s. While state law requires a seven percent savings to comparable public prisons, that cost analysis is flawed and not given serious consideration. [See: PLN, Jan. 2018, p.52; March 2011, p.36].
The most important consideration is apparently campaign contributions. The GEO Group, which operates four facilities in Florida, is a major contributor to the Republican Party and state GOP candidates. In 2016 alone the company gave almost $2 million in political donations, including $40,000 to Senate President Joe Negron and $100,000 to the Florida Republican Senatorial Committee.
State Senator Jeff Brandes, who chairs the Criminal Justice Budget Committee, defended the increase in payments to for-profit prison firms as being a matter of fairness.
“The issue here is that a couple of years ago we raised salaries for correctional officers in our public facilities, but we never extended that pay increase to correctional officers in private facilities,” he said.
That raise was five percent; it was the first wage increase for state prison guards in about eight years. Senator Negron, who supported the increased private prison payments, didn’t explain why companies like GEO couldn’t raise employee wages themselves, rather than have the state do so using public, taxpayer funds.
“It’s a slap in the face,” said one state prison guard who requested anonymity. “Plus, we were just told we will not see another raise for ten years.”
The same guard said one of the things the Sumter Correctional Institution is always “gigged for” when the American Correctional Association arrives to accredit the prison is the “subpar pay scale.”
The starting salary for Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) guards is around $33,000 per year. The prison system has been at critically low staffing levels, resulting in increased staff turnover and cuts in programming and recreation. In recent years, the department has averaged a $2.2 billion budget to house about 98,000 prisoners statewide, including in private prisons.
At the Sumter Correctional Institution, roofs are patched with new shingles rather than having a new roof installed. Yet the legislature was prepared to appropriate public funds for staff raises at privately-operated prisons.
Florida’s $89 billion budget passed the legislature in March 2018 and was signed by the governor on March 16. The original bill to give an additional $4 million to private prison firms died in committee (HB 3745); however, another bill, HB 3837, which made it into the final budget, appropriated $6.96 million to the Bay, Moore Haven, South Bay and Blackwater River Correctional Facilities – all operated by GEO Group – “for the provision of enhanced in-prison and post-release recidivism reduction programs.” In other words, GEO still got paid.
While it remains to be seen whether that money translates to increased wages for the company’s employees, one thing is certain: Florida lawmakers have shown private prison firms the value – and financial returns – of making campaign contributions.
Sources: www.tampabay.com, www.floridapolitics.com, www.flsenate.gov
I think the private prisons pay is better
28 years in california another 12 years as a consultant in 15 states.
I remember the pay in Kentucky being low and areal morale issue, but there were no private place sin state at that time. Louisiana was low in 1978 starting at 395 month and the ability to bring cigarettes and hygiene items ion and sell them to the inmates.
SAdly, too many vote as well.
Sadly, too many vote as well.
I wonder...could we offer these people a one week vacation to Venezuela (and then cancel their return ticket when they’re in Venezuela)?
Who is the cuny communist professor? We need to know who our enemies are and where they teach.
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