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Thursday, November 29th, 2012

Corrections Corporation of America Used in Drug Sweeps of Public School Students

Author:     BEAU HODAI
Source:     Truthout.org
Publication Date:     Tuesday, 27 November 2012 13:35
Link: Corrections Corporation of America Used in Drug Sweeps of Public School Students
Stephan:   This report describes the latest in the New American Slavery trend. (See The New American Slavery http://www.explorejournal.com/article/S1550-8307%2811%2900043-7/fulltext This trend is gathering speed in Red Value states, as prisons in those states are privatized, and prison lobbyists buy state legislators and bend them to their will. As you can see in this report, it is also degrading the school systems in those states. Essentially the poor increasingly become individual valves which tap public funds to the benefit of these private corporations.

In Arizona an unsettling trend appears to be underway: the use of private prison employees in law enforcement operations.

The state has graced national headlines in recent years as the result of its cozy relationship with the for-profit prison industry. Such controversies have included the role of private prison corporations in SB 1070 and similar anti-immigrant legislation disseminated in other states; a 2010 private prison escape that resulted in two murders and a nationwide manhunt; and a failed bid to privatize nearly the entire Arizona prison system.

And now, recent events in the central Arizona town of Casa Grande show the hand of private corrections corporations reaching into the classroom, assisting local law enforcement agencies in drug raids at public schools.

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