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Discussion for article #239460
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokesman Josh Devine said Friday the investigation is ongoing.[/quote]
How long does it take to investigate this and, if true, just close that prison?
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How long does it take to investigate this and, if true, just close that prison?
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Hmmm! Who owns the physical jailhouse? I’ll look it up and see if I can add something on this…
Okay, preliminarily this is what I think: typical the government builds the jails, these companies only manage them. This seems logical to me; you don’t need a crew of government employees to do this, day in and day out: leave it to the specialists. Here is a clue that this one is merely “operated by” the contractor:
Metro-Davidson County Detention Facility
Operated by Corrections Corporation of America in Tennessee
So they’re not going to close it, no way. Change contractors, maybe. But I bet their politically linked in, what contributions, what pressures, etc. 
They’re getting pretty close to slavery there. The private jail biz is one with political connections. It’s there because of politics and quid pro quo not because it works. I doubt much happens here other than the cessation of the activity.
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Prison guards should earn a living wage as unionized public employees. They shouldn’t have to supplement their incomes with revenue from prison labor. Prisoners’ work output should belong to the state. It should be truthfully labeled as such, and the profits from private sale of prisoners’ output should be clawed back to offset some of the cost of incarceration. State employees shouldn’t infringe the trademarks of sports teams.
I find that the businesses that describe themselves as a “Christian-based organization” are the ones that least act like it.
I bet these f*ckers would refuse to build a Notre Dame football, um, wall thingy for a gay wedding. (Seriously, what are those things? Cutting boards? Funerary urns?)
Tip of the iceberg, my friends.
When the purpose of the operators is to make money, it is in their best interests to keep the prisoner’s in their system for as long as they can. This leads to a climate of finding ways to keep inmates incarcerated. Let’s face it, they want a full house and thy would prefer to keep “known” offenders that they have already intimidated rather than break in new ones. The inmates are afraid and helpless.
They do NOT want to rehabilitate, or “help prepare them for success upon release.” There is no incentive to decrease recidivism, rather, just the opposite.
Working for no pay is probably one of the lesser evils of the “crime does pay for some folks” prison systems.
BTW,
“To prove the items being sold by Stand Firm Designs were made by inmates, Stephney and Brew concealed their names under pieces of wood nailed to the backs of items. They also wrote the number 412148, which refers to a section of Tennessee code that makes it illegal for jail officials to require an inmate to perform labor that results in the official’s personal gain.”
Sounds to me as though the inmates are smarter than their keepers.
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Slave labor has always been a Southern value.
PRIVATE prison guards shouldn’t exist
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It’s Good Christian Larceny, so it’s OK. If it wasn’t Jeebus and Gawd would have told them to stop. Since Gawd talked to Human Clown Car Duggar about laundry, we know that this is true.
Slavery is biblical, so it’s OK.
I know a woman who worked in a CCC prison in Texas. Only job she could find. Minimum wage. The “supervisors” only made minimum wage. No real training either.
I just became a highly selective fan of intellectual property rights, I hope every sports team depicted sues the guards’ business and the private prison corporation into bankruptcy for trademark infringement.