 B.C. shackled with private-prison experimentLaw & Order | 208368 hits | Jul 25 1:49 pm | Posted by: Curtman  Five years ago, Canada's public safety minister Stockwell Day and the Conservative government embraced a tough-on-crime agenda and opened the door to private prisons.Commentsview comments in forum You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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The chicken little party has shoved us over the slippery slope, and now we're in free fall I guess.
The End is Near because of a prison? Hyperbole much?
This is so stupid. Private prisons have been such a failure in the US that it boggles my mind that we'd even consider them.
I agree. If we're gonna build more prisons they should be Gov't run since everytime they create a "private" facility they generally cost more owing to the fact that it's a profit driven entity.
As for saving the taxpayers dollars, I have my doubts.
Here's an interesting read about the Private Prison system in the US.
http://www.good.is/post/private-prisons ... rk-better/
Well, I've heerd that the US experience hasn't been great. On the other hand, Canada isn't the US. Nothing wrong with a pilot project. Take a risk. See if it works for us.
If it's anything like BC's privatization of the Ferry and Highways maintenance Systems I can see this costing the taxpayers alot more money than advertised.
This is so stupid. Private prisons have been such a failure in the US that it boggles my mind that we'd even consider them.
Private prisons in parts of the US have done fine. Others have failed. That's just the free enterprise system at work sorting out the good from the bad.
On the upside of the private prison thing when a private prison screws up it closes and its employees are turned out. With government-run prisons when they screw up then we see decades of investigations, the creation of expensive oversight groups, and the subsidization of the failed prisons coupled with rich pension packages for the appointees who caused the misery.
Well, I've heerd that the US experience hasn't been great. On the other hand, Canada isn't the US. Nothing wrong with a pilot project. Take a risk. See if it works for us.
There already was a pilot project: (from the article)
While the private prison saved Ontario money, a study done by PricewaterhouseCoopers found that the province's publicly run ones had better security, better prisoner health care and - perhaps more importantly - reduced repeat offender rates.
On the upside of the private prison thing when a private prison screws up it closes and its employees are turned out. With government-run prisons when they screw up then we see decades of investigations, the creation of expensive oversight groups, and the subsidization of the failed prisons coupled with rich pension packages for the appointees who caused the misery.
No it doesn't these private companies get 99-year contracts and all sorts of immunity. Also, their records are proprietary so there's less public oversight and accountability. The company that owns the prison hires another company to audit it and then a report that says everything is sunshine and roses is filed with the regulator and not open to public scrutiny.
Maybe you missed this article from a couple years ago on PA's "Cash for Kids" Scandal. I recommend you read it. Only in America, folks.
By FRANK MASTROPOLO, LAUREN PEARLE and GLENN RUPPEL
Oct. 29, 2009
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled late Thursday that almost all juvenile delinquency cases heard by an indicted former judge must be thrown out. The ruling means cases heard by former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella from Jan. 1, 2003 to May 31, 2008 are in question for fairness and impartiality.
Ciavarella faces criminal charges that accuse him of taking millions of dollars in kickbacks from owners of private detention centers in exchange for placing juvenile defendants at their facilities, often for minor crimes.
In one reported case, a college-bound high school student served three weeks in juvenile detention for making fun of the school principal on a Web site.
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Ciavarella and Conahan had allegedly devised a plot to use their positions as judges to pad their pockets. They shut down the old county-run juvenile detention center by first refusing to send kids there and, then, by cutting off funds, choking it out of existence.
They then replaced the facility with a cash cow -- a privately owned lockup built by the judges' cronies -- and forged a deal for the county to pay $58 million for a 10-year period for its use. At the time, Conahan was serving as president judge of the Luzerne County Common Pleas Court, a position that allowed him to control the county-court budget. Ciavarella was the Luzerne County juvenile court judge.
In the judges' original plea deal, they admitted that they took more than $2.6 million in payoffs from the private youth detention center between 2003 and 2006.
If you're looking for hyperbole, it's ever present in the rhetoric that they use to justify the dumb-on-crime policy at a time when crime rates continue to fall.
"Reported crime" is down....