Private Prisons for Profit

 My good friend and fellow Dem wrote this as a letter to the editor. I thought it was worth posting. 

Thank you Marrion 

Private Prisons for Profit.  $-)

Yes, a prison where an outsider can drive up to the fence with wire cutters  and three prisoners walk out and drive away. 





Where the guards have no weapons (ya gotta be kidding!) and the alarms are ignored when they do work.   See, some dreams do come true!

And these prisons get how many millions of our dollars each MONTH?  Then we taxpayers also have the honor of paying for law enforcement to capture them.

 With SB1070 perhaps they can round up lots of people with brown skin and put them in these prisons to “detain” them.  Wow -  SUCH A DEAL!  More profit.



Gov Brewer denies financial connection to these prisons; however,  two of her advisors, and the wife of one, are possibly on their payroll.  KPHO-TV has the details.  And how much do they donate to Gov Brewer and other lawmakers?

With her fabrications of “beheadings at the Border” (with no bodies for evidence),  and her “the Border areas are paralyzed by violence” - which the local officials say is NOT TRUE, actually crime is down -  she’s selling fear.

 Gov Brewer knows fear gets votes, and is spreading fear like no other; she is working for herself, not Arizona.

We want our taxes to benefit US, not the creator of some fake prison and a governor. Of course the prison says it doesn’t lobby for the detainees, but, golly, where else can they be held?

Last year, under Gov Brewer, an attempt to privatize the entire AZ prison system was made but didn’t succeed after the State Corrections Director sent the Governor a letter saying he couldn’t imagine death row inmates being taken care of by the lowest bidder.  You can’t tell me she doesn’t have a stake in private prisons.

Folks, it’s time to choose another Governor.

Where Is Our Nation Headed ?

“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it 

mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.”

 

HAILE SELASSIE

 

Found In the "Los Angeles Times":
Arizona immigration law an unpleasant 

reminder of Chandler's past

Found In "Think Progress"
SC senator: We’ve ‘got one raghead in the White House,
we don’t need a raghead in the governor’s mansion.’

 

Found In the "NYDailyNews.com"
Arizona school asks artists to lighten face of
Hispanic student on mural

 Somebody please help me to understand why the 

'Far Right' and 'Teaparty'

want us to go backwards instead of forward.
Is it Profit? Hate? Ignorance?  All of the above?

 

Do  these words from Emma Lazarus mean nothing?

    "Give me your tired, your poor, 

your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

The wretched refuse of you teamming shore. 

Send these, the homeless, 

tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

 They must have meant something

significant to have been placed with

"Lady Liberty" herself. And what about the 

Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Are we going to become a country 
which embraces ethnic cleansing? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Didn't our ancestors fight and 

die to combat this very activity?

 

 

 And now I read an article 

today by  Southern Beale

 discussing the link between the immigration bill and private prisons for profit. 

 

 

 

 

Call it what it is...slavery!

  If we don't come together and rise up against this flood of hate, bigotry and injustice, our once great nation will be 

no place any of us will want to pledge our allegiance. 

In fact we will probably be made to do so by force. 

I'm scared for ourfuture and the future generations to come. 

I don't know if it's too late, but if we don't at least try,

we can only blame ourselves for allowing the 

fascists to overtake everything we hold dear.