Last year the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison company, received $74 million of taxpayers’ money to run immigration detention centers. Their largest facility in Lumpkin, Georgia, receives $200 a night for each of the 2,000 detainees it holds, and rakes in yearly profits between $35 million and $50 million.
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If your dumb enough to go to jail yuor dumb enough to pay the phone rates.
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ReplyDeleteI'm afraid I don't have much sympathy for people who broke the law and are serving time in jail. I pay for my phone services too!! And it isn't cheap! They should have thought about their loss of freedom prior to committing crimes!
ReplyDeleteYou guys are sad. This is abuse and exploitation. NOBODY pays 5 bucks a minute for a phone call. Just because they are in prison does not make it right.
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell is wrong with you?
Is this a problem? I don't think so.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it abuse and exploitation 3:06? Telephone usage isn't a right, it's a privilege. It's not like they are charging them $5 for a meal or for pulling a tooth when they only make a dollar a day. That would be abuse and exploitation.
ReplyDeleteBesides it could be considered a lesson in financial responsiblity. Like saving money for something you really want.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it abuse and exploitation 3:06?
ReplyDeleteOh, I don't know. Maybe because the article said that. Did you even read it?
Telephone usage isn't a right, it's a privilege.
Technically yes. But inmates are still entitled to a phone call once a month unless on restriction.
It's not like they are charging them $5 for a meal or for pulling a tooth when they only make a dollar a day. That would be abuse and exploitation.
November 18, 2011 3:55 PM
I don't understand your logic.
Just to let most of you know the phone calls are paid for by the law abiding citizens. How would a non working inmate pay that kind of money for phone calls or anything else.I work in a jail and see people putting monies in inmates accounts all the time. It is the law abiding citizens that are being robbed legally not the broke a$$ inmates.
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