Private-run prisons for everyone!
Governor Doug Ducey, famous for
firing anyone looking into corporation's violations of the most basic regulations, is going to have to fire someone he
actually likes:
Arizona will fire the private operator running a state prison after three major uprisings that caused extensive damage and forced more than 1,200 inmates to be relocated, Gov. Doug Ducey said on Wednesday.
The state has already begun the process of canceling its contract with Utah-based Management and Training Corp. in the wake of riots and violence inside two units at the Kingman prison last month, Ducey said.
This comes on the growing unrest in the private prison system in Arizona. Last month 700 inmates had to be relocated after another riot.
A third disturbance within four days broke out Saturday in a private prison in Kingman, authorities said.
Units with the Arizona Department of Public Safety and the Mohave County Sheriff's Office were helping the Department of Corrections with the unrest at Arizona State Prison-Kingman, officials said. The law enforcement officers are providing security around the perimeter of the prison.
The
unrest became a full on riot. A scathing review of the management of the prison system was released and then everybody said "remember when" this very same management group messed up five years ago?
In 2010, three inmates escaped from the prison after a woman in a getaway car threw cutting tools over the fence and they broke out. The inmates went on a violent crime spree that included the murders of an Oklahoma couple during a camping trip in New Mexico. They were killed, and their bodies were found burned in their trailer. The inmates were caught, tried and received new prison sentences.
The Management and Training Corp. continued to operate the prison despite scathing criticism of its lax security during the escape.
What's different this time,
wonders The Management and Training Corp.?
The company said in a lengthy statement that the allegations raised in the report were unfounded and contradicted the state’s own written audits.
“Over the last five years, ADC has expressed no significant concerns with our operation,” according to the statement. "We have provided a high level of service, comparable to other ADC facilities, and this has all been substantiated by ADC.”
Things get awkward when you pull the short straw in the scapegoat game, right?
Whether it's wasting taxpayer money on banning things that are already illegal, or just shitting on the poor, the Republican hegemony in Arizona is here to show you the kind of future they want—one where most of you's is behind bars, working for $2 a day.