The Young Turks: Ana Kasparian & Cenk Uygur: 'Guard Killed In Riot At Private Prison In Mississippi'

Source:The Young Turks- welcome to Mississippi.

"A Mississippi jail is on lockdown today after a Sunday night riot left one prison guard dead and as many as 20 inmates and guards injured. According to sheriff's reports, the violence began as a gang feud and soon engulfed the privately operated facility, which holds 2,500 non-citizens incarcerated for reentering the United States after deportation and for other charges. But the fragments of information that have emerged from inmates and advocates suggest that the violence had more to do with a pattern of abuse and neglect that has emerged at privately run, for-profit prisons. The Adams County sheriff's office and the Corrections Corporation of America, the behemoth prison company that operates the facility for the federal Bureau of Prisons, have tightly controlled news of the riot...".* Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks." 

From The Young Turks

Anyone whose familiar with this blog, knows that I'm against private prisons. I'm in favor privatization and private options for a helluva lot of things in America, except when it comes to our national security, foreign policy, law enforcement, and criminal justice. 

Corrections is obviously one of the key functions of government. I'm not anti-corporate or anti-for-profit, except when it comes government's key functions in our free society to keep it free for as many people as possible, who play by the rules and contribute to the country. 

For-profit corporations are in the business to make as much money as humanly possible for their executives and stockholders. Not to keep the country safe and take care and supervise our prison inmates.