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California law bans for-profit, private prisons, immigration detention centers
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Friday [October 11] that would eliminate private, for-profit prisons, including those used for immigration detention, by 2028.
Starting on Jan. 2020, the state's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation won't be able to enter into or renew a contract with a private, for-profit prison to incarcerate people.
Operating a private immigration detention facility and incarcerating people in for-profit prisons will be prohibited after Jan. 2028, according to the newly signed law.
[...] The Adelanto Detention Facility, which is one of the nation's biggest privately-run immigration detention centers, will be phased out under the new law.
This past summer, the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General released a report that found "egregious violations of detention standards" at the Adelanto Detention Facility, including "nooses in detainee cells, improper and overly restrictive segregation, and inadequate detainee medical care."
[...] GEO Group, a for-profit prison company with dozens of facilities in California including the Adelanto Facility, previously has stated that the bill "works against the state's Proposition 57 anti-recidivism goals approved by the voters," referring to a ballot proposition passed in 2016 to reduce the number of people who were re-incarcerated in the state.
The company reported revenues of $2.33 billion in 2018, up from $2.26 billion in 2017. The facilities have been criticized for employing immigrants for as little as $1 a day.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 21 2019, @08:08PM (8 children)
Now dem illegal aliens is takin' our prison jobs!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 21 2019, @08:20PM (1 child)
It is a well known fact that aliens have an established history of administering anal probes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 21 2019, @08:26PM
Hell! By now you've probably been to every planet in the Galaxy!
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday October 21 2019, @08:37PM (5 children)
Well, I too think private prisons are a bad thing for a number of reasons, but one comment I read about La Migra is,"Good job Gavin, now instead of going to the local detention centers to visit their captured loved-ones, now they'll have to drive hundreds of miles out of state to see them."
Liberal retardation is just super-retarded, like the straw ban that causes people to request straws (always on hand) anyway, and ends up generating more waste than before. And don't even get me started on California's "tolerant and progressive" humanitarian attitude towards the homeless.
Look, I may not always agree with globalist Jewish progressivism, but I would totally respect idealistic laws as long as there was actually some thought put into trying to predict their consequences instead of just sticking it to MUH ORANGE MAN BAD. Maybe those idiots should be kicked out onto the streets and forced to live there, might put a little common-sense into them.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 21 2019, @08:54PM (1 child)
Or a trend, like when weed legalization got rolling.
Eliminate for-profit prisons and they either move to country government control, state government control, or federal control. Each of those has a level of scrutiny and responsibility that private prisons have been intentionally created to avoid.
Personally I think this may force hands on the logistics of arrestee and inmate handling that will either cause the problem to come to a head, or lead to them taking the easy approach and just releasing people because 'all our holding facilities are full'. In the latter case, with luck the less threatening incarcerated will go free while the high threat individuals will be kept inside, allowing functional members of society to return to their toil for our greater glory, while the economic undesireables stay incarcerated and work for what we feel they are worth.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday October 21 2019, @10:16PM
Imprisoning the homeless would be doing them favors, the well-behaving ones would learn job skills, and as long as the imprisonment of the homeless would be giving them 3 hots and a cot and placing them into a different and more productive context than punishment for criminal behavior, where they can't do drugs and booze, let's try it. But homelessness as an ill of society and described to America at large is 99% a problem of San Francisco, Los Angles, and New York City.
It's really a problem of affordable housing, but when a Jew or Chink with dirty money can sell a 200 square-foot shack for two-million dollars, don't bet on that problem being resolved anytime soon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 21 2019, @09:14PM
Blame the Brits. They went soft after World War 2.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 21 2019, @11:46PM
You want some thought put into the consequences of laws? That's good. I want the same thing.
The consequences of existing law, are that judges are more or less coerced into KEEPING prisons filled. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. It's not because we have the most violent society in the world, it's because our sentencing guidelines are crazy. Non-violent offenders should never see the inside of a prison. A jail, maybe, but not a prison. Non-violent offenders, like some dumbass who has been caught three times with a bit of pot, should be free people like you and me. Non-violent offenders who are guilty of petty thefts should be working restitution and community service. Our prisons are literally filled with people who never should have gone to prison. They are there because wealthy sons of bitches made back-room agreements.
"Well, Judge, I can afford to build a 1000 bed facility in your jurisdiction, but you'll have to guarantee that you can keep it filled to capacity!"
That was a part of the reason pot was made illegal. Dem niggas was getting uppity, and dey was enjoying demselves, so we had to lock dem up for dere own good! Of course, today, it isn't just blacks and Latinos who enjoy their pot, but a white body makes just as much money for the slavers as any other.
I detest everything about the prison for profit system. Those who profit from human misery are no better than the traffikers moving their slave whores around the world. Scum of the earth is what they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 22 2019, @12:28AM
Your stupidity is worse than usual when you write long, rambling, meaningless posts.