Fantastic Business Opportunities in the Prison Industrial Complex. Invest Your Sons and Daughters Now

America’s two largest private prison companies — GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America — “earned” over $2.9 billion dollars last year. There’s gold in them thar prison inmates. And if you hurry, YOU can get in on the ground floor NOW.

According to the Justice Policy Institute, the total prison population has increased by 16%. During the same period, the prison population of private federal prisons has increased by 120%.

And it gets worse. Private prisons are not just taking advantage of our harsh victimless-crime laws and unbalanced sentencing procedures. They’re actively working to create new laws and longer sentences.

The largest prison companies have bribed, er, I mean “contributed” nearly a million dollars to federal politicians, and over $6 million to state candidates. In Arizona, most of the state legislators who voted for the state’s immigration law — which will be a gold mine for private prisons — received campaign contributions from the private prison industry. Coincidence?

And in Florida, legislation has been introduced that would privatize ALL Florida prisons. Needless to say, there’s a lot of bribery involved here.

And in the “Small World” department, one of the founders of Corrections Corporation of America is the former chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party.

Figures.

Citizens For A Better Arizona

Since Arizona is notorious for its teabagging KKK population, it’s nice to know the state also has some unbigoted non-rednecks who don’t want to “take their country back” to 1859.

Citizens For A Better Arizona has filed a recall petition against state Senator Russell Pearce (R—Inbred). Pearce is the author of Arizona’s infamous “Zee Papersss Pleasse” immigration law. He’s also a devoted birther and tenther.

Citizens For A Better Arizona describes itself as a “coalition of concerned citizens committed to improving the quality of life of all Arizonans.” The group has already collected 18,315 voter signatures for their recall petition; they only needed 7,756 signatures.

Russell Pearce originated the idea — dutifully carried out by his faithful dog, Sheriff Joe Arpaio — of creating tent cities for detaining illegal immigrants. He also said:

“The best thing about the immigration law is that Obama may not be visiting Arizona because we actually require papers now.”

Here’s the website for Citizens For A Better Arizona. Come on Arizona voters — get that shitstain out of the Senate.

Arizona Immigration Law: A Gold Mine for Private Prisons

Whatever Arizona Governor Jan Brewer says, she likes the new immigration law for other reasons besides safety and border security. She’s closely allied with the Prison Industrial Complex.

Two of her top advisers have close ties to Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). And CCA holds the federal contract for housing detainees in Arizona. When they start rounding up all them swarthy Meskins — the new law takes effect this Thursday — Corrections Corporation of America will get even wealthier.

Hey, as long as America locks up more people than any other country in the world, we might as well make a profit from it, right? Or to paraphrase a popular poster from the late ‘60s: Prison is good business; invest your son.

Now who says Republicans don’t have any original ideas, any solutions? Al Franken comes to their defense. They do too have an agenda: They’re trying to bring the economy to a standstill because they don’t want people to get jobs before the election.

See??? The Republicans really DO stand for something.

The Monday Hodgepodge

Arizona’s new immigration law is so bad — how bad is it? — it’s sooo bad, even Tom “Kill All The Mud Races” Tancredo is leery of it.

The former Colorado senator, who never met a swarthy furriner he didn’t hate, is worried about the police being able to stop anybody for any reason. He said:

“I do not want people here, there in Arizona, pulled over because you look like you should be pulled over.”

And speaking of people getting pulled over because of how they look, here’s a little irony: One of the Far Right’s biggest heroes has a foreign name and a dark complexion.

This article shows his picture. And yes of course he’s railing against immigrants and poor people. Does he ever do anything else?

And WTF kind of name is Andre Bauer??? Well, which is he, a frog or a kraut? Why couldn’t the people of South Carolina elect an American to the position of Lt. Governor? Anyway, look at his picture and try to guess how far past the Arizona state line he’d get before It Happened: “Get out of the car, Wetback! What country were you born in? Show us your papersss!!!”

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