The United States has for years had the largest incarcerated population of men and women in the world. Beginning in the 1980s because of the ability to legally bribe politicians a system of privately owned prisons was legalized. In 1983, the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) was founded, becoming the first private prison company. CCA’s first contract was to design, build, and manage a detention facility in Houston for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Treating people like caged animals quickly became a very profitable private enterprise business and a whole network of such cage operations has arisen. There are now 158 private prisons in the U.S.. In 2022 8% of those incarcerated were in private prisons, 90,873 men and women. Now, under Trump, the millionaires and billionaires who own these disgusting morally repugnant corporations are going to get much richer. We are soon going to be a nation with concentration camps where millions of people will be stored, and families separated. It will be interesting to see whether any of these camps are privately owned and run. What is even more disgusting, it is already clear that none of these people are currently getting proper health care, particularly women, and I predict whether privately owned or publicly owned the same will be true in these camps. We are on the road to becoming a country the Founders would neither recognize nor support.
The chairperson of a leading U.S. private prison corporation on Thursday gushed over the “unprecedented opportunity” presented by the prospect of Republican President-elect Donald Trump delivering on his campaign promise to begin the mass deportation of unauthorized immigrants on his first day in office.
As Common Dreamsreported Thursday, Trump’s campaign confirmed that “the largest mass deportation operation of illegal immigrants” ever is set to start immediately after the former president returns to the White House on January 20.
GEO Group stock surged more than 56% from the close of trading on Tuesday, Election Day, to Friday’s closing bell. Competitor CoreCivic shares skyrocketed 57% over the same period. By contrast, GEO Group stock saw just a 21% rise in the three months preceding Election Day. CoreCivic inched up just 11% over the same period.
“The GEO Group was built for this unique moment in our company’s [and] country’s history, and the opportunity that it will bring,” GEO Group founder and chairperson George Zoley said during a Thursday earnings call call in which he hailed the “unprecedented opportunity” […]
Julia Shuford and Mark Spencer, MD, Medical Student | Spencer is an Assistant Professor of Medicine. - MedPage Today
Stephan:
Here is the proof of what I said in the previous article. We have the largest incarcerated population in the world, and they get even worse medical care than is common in the rest of the population, particularly women, and women of color. This morally reprehensible reality is almost never discussed in corporate media. I found this in a medical publication. But it is the reality of the United States. We are a very sick country.
Womens’ prison
As a physician and medical student, we have bore witness to much preventable suffering. A recent patient diagnosed with stage IV cervical cancer exemplified this. Widely considered a preventable cancer, this woman had an abnormal pap smear 10 years prior. She was subsequently incarcerated, where her cancer screening and follow up was long neglected, eventually becoming so ill she required transfer to a hospital.
The incarceration of women has risen astronomically, increasing by nearly 600% in the past few decades. As reproductive health faces a new wave of criminalization, we must include the criminal legal system in our analysis and discussion of women’s health disparities. Incarcerated individuals experienc higher rates of chronic disease, infectious diseases, and mental health concerns. In particular, Black womenopens in a new tab or window are disproportionately criminalized and incarcerated, and likewise more affected by numerous diseases. Social determinants of health drive these disparities as poverty, racism, lack of economic opportunity, and governmental neglect intersect to drive legal involvement, preventable suffering, and […]
Nancy Pelosi, one of the most sophisticated and knowledgeable political experts in the U.S., and former Speaker of the House, confirms what I said in Friday’s SR. She blames Biden and his ego for what happened in the election, and why Trump won. She also saw this as more a cultural election than a political one. Racism and male dominance genderism have been cancers in the United States since the day it was created, and have now become enflamed.
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went full scorched earth on Friday, blaming Vice President Kamala Harris’s stunning loss on Joe Biden’s late exit from the presidential race.
In an interview with The New York Times, Pelosi suggested that Biden had crippled the Democratic Party’s chances at keeping Donald Trump out of the White House.
“Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi said. “And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened.”
Pelosi also blamed Biden for not making way in time for an open primary, which could have created momentum around a new candidate who would have performed better with the Democratic base.
“And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time,” Pelosi said. “If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”
The Democrats seem to have thought they were in a traditional election competition; they were not. This was not a political election but a cultural one, and the Harris Walz team didn’t seem to realize this, and Biden essentially sabotaged them by not realizing it either.
On paper, everything looked great. But in poll after poll ahead of the election, voters signaled concern for the economy and ranked inflation as their top issue. The rough, preliminary voting data available in exit polling showed the same trend.
At the heart of that disconnect might be elements that broad economic indicators often struggle to capture: Despite a “strong economy,” many […]
Israel Salas-Rodriguez, Senior News Reporter - The U.S. Sun News
Stephan:
This is getting virtually no coverage in the United States. I think this is because the billionaires who own most of the national media are afraid of offending Trump. However, as you will see if you do a Google, it is front page on much of the international media. Why did this happen, why at that very moment? Think about it for a minute. As soon as it was declared Trump had won Russian state television broadcast across Russia and the world not one but a whole slew of nudes of Trump’s wife Melania. I think this is a very significant development, although must international coverage doesn’t really seem to get it. I think Putin is sending Trump a coded message: If you don’t do what I want I have currently secret extremely embarrassing images of you I can make public. Remember the never-revealed but once widely discussed “golden showers video.”
A Russia state media outlet has sparked outrage for airing Melania Trump’s nude photographs on live television as a tribute to her husband winning the 2024 election.
The disparaging display was aired on 60 Minutes on the Russia-1 network, the country’s most-watched television channel, showing pictures of Melania from a photo shoot with the British GQ in 2000.
The news clip, which was shared on X by Russian Media Monitor creator Julia Davis, begins with anchor Yevgeny Popov saying the former first lady is prepping to return to the White House after Donald Trump‘s election victory.
As Popov speaks, a large television screen behind him and his co-anchor and wife, Olga Skabeeva, shows a clip of Trump and Melania together at one of the president-elect’s rallies.
However, the clip quickly cuts to an image of Melania from her GQ shoot.
“Here’s how Melania looked like in the year 2000,” Popov said as a nude image of the former first lady appeared on the screen.
Popov goes on to describe each image of Melania in detail.
“The future first lady lies on top of furs in a negligee,” […]
I have been thinking about how we got to this point in history and the answer, I have concluded, is Mitch McConnell, and I believe that is what historians will conclude. If McConnell had been a man of integrity he would have seen that Trump was impeached and removed from office, as should have happened. If he had behaved honorably none of this would now be occurring. But he didn’t and now we have reached a place where a man Putin considers a “useful idiot” is openly saying that through his minion, former President Dmitry Medvedev.
Russian Security Council Vice Chairman and former President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow, Russia. He said that Donald Trump’s election night performance was “useful” for Russia.Credit: Getty
Vladimir Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev has suggested the U.S. presidential election result would serve Russia’s interests in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Medvedev served as president between 2008 and 2012 and is now deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council. Over the course of the war in Ukraine, he has pushed anti-Western rhetoric, often issuing threats to Kyiv’s allies about Moscow’s nuclear capability.
Around the time of Trump’s victory speech early Tuesday morning, Medvedev posted on Telegram his response to the election night.
Without directly congratulating the Republican candidate, Medvedev referred to how there was a “furious bipartisan anti-Russian consensus on Capitol Hill.”
“But Trump has one quality that is useful for us—as a businessman to the core, he hates spending money on … idiotic allies, stupid charity projects and voracious international organizations,” he said, seemingly referring to global support for Ukraine.
Newsweek has contacted the Ukrainian foreign ministry for comment.
