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| For-profit prisons threaten public safety |
| By azcentral.com- Caroline Isaacs |
| Published: 07/07/2015 |
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Last week, the Kingman state prison, operated by Management and Training Corporation, saw the latest in a string of riots. After several days of unrest, nine prison staff and seven incarcerated people were injured and the facilities were so badly damaged the state is moving over 1,000 people out of the prison. Sadly, this horrific situation is not new for MTC or any other for-profit prison corporation. Simply put, you get what you pay for. As far back as 2005, the Kingman facility experienced more than "13 instances of large groups of inmates refusing directives and/or chasing staff off the yard." In 2010, three people escaped from the facility and murdered a couple vacationing in New Mexico. The Arizona Department of Corrections investigation into the escapes found that the alarm systems had been malfunctioning in the prison for over two years, but MTC failed to fix them. Why? Because it would cost too much money. Read More. |
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