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FBI Investigates Private Prison Nicknamed "Gladiator School"
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
In what is one of the most disturbing private prison stories you’ll ever hear, a facility in Idaho run by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) in under investigation by the FBI due to claims it was so violent inmates called it “Gladiator School.” So how does a prison transform into such a place? Apparently, CCA was so eager to cut costs that it chose to understaff the facility and hand over control to prison gangs.
I’ve covered private prisons on many occasions in the past, including this CCA facility in particular. I think private prisons are one of the worst ideas possible in a democratic society. I suggest you read some of my prior articles:
A Deep Look into the Shady World of the Private Prison Industry
Idaho Dumps Private Prison Company Due to “Violence, Understaffing and Over-billing”
America in 2013: Florida Football Stadium Named After a Private Prison Company
America in 2013: For-Profit Prisons Get Favorable Tax Breaks
Now from the AP:
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The FBI has launched an investigation of the Corrections Corporation of America over the company’s running of an Idaho prison with a reputation so violent that inmates dubbed it “Gladiator School.”
The Nashville, Tenn.-based CCA has operated Idaho’s largest prison for more than a decade, but last year, CCA officials acknowledged it had understaffed the Idaho Correctional Center by thousands of hours in violation of the state contract. CCA also said employees falsified reports to cover up the vacancies. The announcement came after an Associated Press investigation showed CCA sometimes listed guards as working 48 hours straight to meet minimum staffing requirements.
“The FBI is investigating CCA and looking at whether various federal fraud statutes were violated and possibly other federal statutes connected with the fraud,” Olson said. “They will be working in close consultation with our office. Beyond that I can’t comment.”
The understaffing has been the subject of federal lawsuits and a contempt of court action against CCA. The ACLU sued on behalf of inmates at the Idaho Correctional Center in 2010, saying the facility was so violent that inmates called it “Gladiator School” and that understaffing contributed to the high levels of violence there.
In 2012, a Boise law firm sued on behalf of inmates contending that CCA had ceded control to prison gangs so that they could understaff the prison and save money on employee wages, and that the understaffing led to an attack by one prison gang on another group of inmates that left some of them badly injured.
The Department of Justice requested a copy of a forensic audit done for the Idaho Department of Correction earlier this year. That audit showed that CCA understaffed the prison by as much as 26,000 hours in 2012 alone; CCA is strongly contesting those findings. CCA’s Owen has said the company believes the audit overestimates the staffing issues by more than a third.
CCA’s contract with Idaho was worth about $29 million a year. In February the company agreed to pay Idaho $1 million to settle the understaffing claims.
Sound like a JP Morgan type settlement.
Full article here.
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If Russel Crowe ever gets locked up there he'll rule the roost!
Russel Crowe, Steven Seagul and that guy who's tears cure cancer! All in one prison!
can we send a prison compay to jail?
Brought to you by.....
Escape from New York (I won't disgrace the original by even mentioning the sequel)
No Escape
The Running Man
Death Race
...take your pick.
If you're wondering where CCA got the idea they probably looked into how the US Gov ran it's WW-II prison of war camps here....... see above arctl for that description
What really surprises me is that the inmates, by all measurable KPIs, weren't reported to run the thing better than any bureaucracy possibly could.
Two men enter, one man leave! Thunderdome!!
To put it in the words of the inestimable Max Keiser, "Casino Gulag!"
"If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads." ~ IKE
"Without further ado....."
can we send banksters to this prison?
I'm curious JQ Public; sometimes, recently, the vote counting device stops working, or shows an error message. I wonder how many people would have up-voted your post.
Are you here searching for "validation" and "Social Approval"? Aren't you well grounded in you own beliefs and assessments?
Now that is fuckin' hilarious. LMAO.
Downvote this you God Damned Socialists.
"Can we send banksters to this prison?"
You clearly need to be sent to the re-education camp, serf.
Next time they come out to Jackson Hole, divert the plane
Yes, a special jail for criminal prison companies, run by a special prison company, which happens to be a wholly owned subsidiary of the prison company going to jail. Interesting hedging strategy, wouldn't you say?
DO NOT FIX THAT PRISON. Then send all of the executives to that prison so that they will know just how it feels and know what they have done....for a profit.
That would be the epitome of "Just desserts." Do not hold your breath as it will not happen.
Fuck them. If justice is not served on earth then they will experience it in Hellfire.
I hope they like being buttfucked by Satan.
There is a God...that so many here mock. You will be surprised and it will not be pleasurable. Of that I am certain.
Anyone ever consider that perhaps there are too many laws?
I guess that's just life in the land of the banned.
Anyone here ever not consider there are too many laws? Natural consequence of allowing Rupert Murdock and friends to control the 'media', whose first demand at any national discomfort is to cry for congress to 'do something'. All that 'doing something' by a collection of paid corporate stooges culminates in the cluster-fuck we see today.
The Supreme Court said corporations were people. Some need "capital" punishment.
Most of them owned by more than a dozen people need "capital" punishment.
.
Uh, OK, I'll up-arrow you for being to the point.
my guess is poor russell's forehead wouldn't leave the ground much...
CCA as*h*les should have all of their contracts yanked. Yes, prisons are mostly for BAD people, they should not be cushy Motel 6´s. Prisoners, even the bad ones, have some of the Divine within. They are people too.
"Gladiator Schools" should be voluntary only. Some people just like to fight, so those people should have the right to go (or be sent) to places where they can slug it out. In a way, a place for those criminals behind bars to have their own fighting rings amy not be such a bad thing: Darwinian evolution.
Privatized for-profit-prisons are one of the biggest abominations ever foisted on us by our sociopathic "reperesentatives".
+1012
I'm all for that, DCRB, as long we don't give them medical treatment on my dime...
You are right. We need to torture them. Those Drug Users are less than human. (I hope it happens to your kids.)
here in the commonwealth, we are compelled to give a wife-murder a "chopadickoffame" operation.
In any sane society, that would be an offense v. the 8th Amendmend wrt cruel and unusual.
Here, it is a mercy (on the taxpayer's dime), not cruel and while very unusual, the court voyeurs enjoy.
- Ned
The whole police and prison complex is Monsters Inc.
I vote we send the monsters who vote their funding to spend more than a little time in their privatized creation.
Plus when the apathetic sheepschitts conveniently ignore that their government or government sanctioned entities break the laws without the consequence of justice, then they sheepschitts are acessory to the crimes and increase their liklihood to be victims of the crimes.
Next they will privatize the police force.
Minnesota town to replace police with private security force
"The central Minnesota town of Foley tried having its own police department and contracting with the county sheriff's department for law enforcement."
"Starting in January, it plans to employ a private security company to patrol its streets."
"Firman said an entirely private security force is a new approach, and his organization hasn't gotten many calls from communities considering the idea."
Good jobs for all the guys coming back PTSD'ed from Islamistan.
There's a new sheriff in town and his name is Mall Cop.
Despite Red Flags About Judges, a Kickback Scheme Flourished
"In what authorities are calling the biggest legal scandal in state history, the two judges pleaded guilty to tax evasion and wire fraud in a scheme that involved sending thousands of juveniles to two private detention centers in exchange for $2.6 million in kickbacks."
"On Thursday, the State Supreme Court ordered that the records be cleaned for hundreds of the 2,500 or so juveniles sentenced by Judge Ciavarella, and in the coming weeks, the two judges will be sentenced, under a plea agreement, to more than seven years in prison."
"The county had a conviction rate for young people that was ten times higher than that of the rest of Pennsylvania" (Source).
"The State of California 9 billion dollar a year fail racket
""""Ms. Petersilia explains, “The formula is simple: more prisoners lead to more prisons; more prisons require more guards; more guards means more dues-paying members and fund-raising capability; and fund-raising, of course, translates into political influence.”
http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2011/06/05/the-role-of-the-prison-gua...
Everything is for profit. Non-profit is a lie. Nothing gets done with out cash. Hard cold cash.
""""
Yes, prisons are mostly for BAD people
My understanding is most people in prison are there for victimless crimes like marijuana possession.
They're all innocent. I mean come on, all you have to do is ask them.
And how many of the people convicted for murder, who actually did commit that murder are in there because they were one thug shooting another thug over who gets to sell that marijuana on a particular street? That's not even getting into innocent people getting convicted or taking a plea deal because a heavy handed prosecutor charged them with 5 felonies to get a plea deal for a lesser felony or a misdemeanor.
The only thugs in Idaho shooting other people over MJ are cops. They don't go to prison.
Not really. They lock 'em up on the MJ charge when they cant prove the violent felony...
If they cannot prove the violent felony then there is supposed to be a presumption of innocense until PROVEN GUILTY BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT.
Go get them you Fascist SOCIALIST PIG. Your Red Skirt is showing.
"Yes, prisons are mostly for BAD people..."
Correction: Mostly for people seized in the DC US' civil war against the American people, commonly called "The war on drugs." Also for anyone else that shows less than loyalty to the criminal pols, crats and banksters. Just unlocking one's phone and can get that person a 5 years trip to one of the DC US' gulags.
"My guillotine is open source."
Hurr in Ahdaho, we sends our dope smokers to Gald ... glatiad ... that prison up yonder, to toughen 'em up.
-- Gov. Butch (Sof Porn) Otter
Motel 6's are hell-holes, I'd prefer a nice clean comfy Federal hotel which now includes free Health care.
Yes, prisons are mostly for BAD people, they should not be cushy Motel 6´s. Prisoners, even the bad ones, have some of the Divine within. They are people too.
Yes I agree. The 80% incarcerated population in Prisons for DRUG CRIMES are really bad, DCRB. They are so terrible. They need to be waterboarded daily.
"Gladiator Schools" should be voluntary only. Some people just like to fight, so those people should have the right to go (or be sent) to places where they can slug it out. In a way, a place for those criminals behind bars to have their own fighting rings amy not be such a bad thing: Darwinian evolution.
Yeah I must agree with this too. In that way, when the meanest and most evil prisoners are released then they can victimize the rest of us. And it will be only the Fittest which survive. (Let me tell you a little secret...Did you know that they actually release Felons in society???)
Hopefully they can victimize your kids. I agree with you 100%. Let's fuck up anything that is of any value.
I am so glad that you thought that through.
Let me guess...Cop or Prison guard?
And apparently everyone who was ever sent there was convicted of using the banned term ....
BIGGUS DICKUS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zyv6YHR_UE&feature=player_detailpage#t=3...
If villainvomit pulled any weight, there would be pay per view fights every Sat night to pay for the prison system and villainvomit's social security that will never materialize.
Yep, fight to the death. And in the main event, I would put in a Corzine here and a Holder there......you get the picture. Damn, Killory would be a good draw....probably fifty bucks a head.
Now that's change I can believe right there !!
Boyka! Boyka! Boyka!
It's a corruption double penetration.
Leave it to the Feds to overspend, mismanage and rot with graft.
Leave it to the Corps to underspend, mismanage and rot with graft.
"Meet the New Boss.....same as the Old Boss"
Welcome to Prison Planet.
Big difference is the layer of vice presidents and CEO who take about $50 million off the top. There goes the private "efficiencies".
Re: There goes the private "efficiencies".
Or There ARE the private "efficiencies".
Welcome to the New Rome.
KNOCK KNOCK!!
WHO'S AT THE DOOR?!?!
Or Olympia: in the category of bareback Ethiopian Wrestling
Tony Curtis is asked if he likes snails.
"Are you not entertained?!"
<suspense>... "thumb down"
Or, more lies(obfuscation) and actually is a Blk Ops deal training these monsters for when the doors open.Think of the havoc they will wreak on the GP.
The first rule of Gladiator School is never talk about Gladiator School
win the crowd and you still won't win your freedom.
Attempt to win the crowd and you'll branded a "terrorist" and promptly executed.
CCA stock is down over 10% YOY, they aren't holding up their end of the Wall Street Ponzi schem so they need to be punished!
or promoted to the CIA where they will form team building relationships with the terrorist orgns
Drop the soap, win the crowd.......
No more bubbles.
I've heard of a gladiator who won his freedom when Emperor Obama was at the games. The fight of 100 gladiators where only one may live it was called...
The 1% Solution.
After a time, only the rich have a cash flow.
Who you callin bitch...beeatch
Nothin' says Merica like "Private Prison".
With Blackwater as the standing army.
Whats that? Another phrase for citizenship?
You mean a corporate 'citizen' would lie in order to increase profits? Say it ain't so Corporate America, say it ain't so.
<Bet they get slapped on the hand, then given more (paying) prisoners to guard as punishment.>
Everyone in that chain of command from whatever CCA types at the prison allt he way to the top should be sent to prison. Preferably a Gladiator School.
An example for the rest.
Yeah. After they are released they can fuck you up. I agree. Gladiator School. Yeah. We need angry, violent and revenge motivated people walking our streets as predators. Go boy...go get them.
(I am giving you Green Arrows. I like your plan.)
Free Dick Fuld!
I know it's a pipe dream, but wouldn't real justice lend itself to incarcerating the offending characters in their own hell hole?
Feed them to the beasts with a promise that future offenders would be similarly treated, and not just the privatized wardens.
Then we'd see real reform - humane, clean, secure, and some semblance of dignity.
Let me guess.
You're a prison Warden talking his book, right?
You're paid not to see that the culture of violence that brought them there will only maintain them as violent there without end. But that's what you really want. And you want citizens to acquiesse to the monster protocol and endorse funding for it. Monsters is as monsters does.
I don't particularly like this monsterous behaviour done in my name, no mater who the incarcerated monster is. Restrain/isolate the violent incarcerated as needed to ensure the safety of others, and let it go at that.
You're not much at guessing who other folks are, nor what they want.
What I want is proportionate accountability with, among other things like justice, the goal of changing systemic (mis)behavior and reducing recidivism. If you have a problem with that then you've overthought it, again.
For this to work, we would have to make the internal workings of the prisons public. Ain't gonna happen dudeski. The prisons will remain black boxs at all costs...
We are going to hear some very creative stories attempting to explain this behavior.
Thanks Mike for doggedly covering this disturbing trend! What with the profit motive, it is not surprising this country has the highest prisoner to population ratio! Despicable.
What's the big deal? Chicago Public Schools does the same thing. They're saving a bundle on pension costs.
Hoolywood invented it...
America really is worse than a third world country now...
I hope my kid can go to a division 1 CCA school. Maybe, the PAC PEN.
Feudalism 2.0. Not fascism. Like I've been saying for a long time.
Fascists don't have multi-generational plans (of any consequence). Feudal lords and kings do.
Re: Feudal lords and kings do.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Correct.
Most people don't know this but Fascism needs a functioning -- if outraged -- middleclass to get any ignition. Without that you go straight to kings and emperors.
It's fine. With a king and nobility you have a lot fewer heads to off.
However the actual serfdom can be tedious.
" In 2012, a Boise law firm sued on behalf of inmates contending that CCA had ceded control to prison gangs"
Isn't this how Democracy works?
Let the weak die, now even prisons can't have Democracy... oh wait, that is just setting a stage for "comming to near you"
When I grow up I want to go to Gladiator School...or Bovine Univerisity, definitely one of the two.
when i grow up, i want to be a fire truck or a bear.
Don't be a bear. You'll be burned every time by the Yellen.
The best folk are prison folk.
near as i can tell, from visiting someone in prison, i am glad there are plenty of prisons.
It's not as if they just found out about this. Here's an AP story about the same place...even with the same title "Gladiator School". The report is from Nov. 30, 2010:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW4K9DKgRhI
So by my math, 26,000 hours of understaffing is like 13 employees. While I don't know how large this prison is, it seems odd that 13 people make the difference between cuddle-bunny day care and gladiator school.
Me thinks that CCA missed a big revenue opportunity here. If the fighting is that ferocious, there is a TV market for it, and where the cameras go so does the money.
Sooo, what are you saying... turn em all loose on each other and film every bit of it only keeping the "most exciting" footage to air on TV and profit from? Sort of like the Hunger Games but with lotsa tattoos and makeshift weapons.
no dude
survivor
but with shanks
Sorta like crack baby basketball
Betcha these CCA folks have a hot tub filled with KFC gravy and prefered seating at Denny's too.
“The FBI is investigating CCA and looking at whether various federal fraud statutes were violated and possibly other federal statutes connected with the fraud,” Olson said.
We have like a bazillion pages of federal statutes. You think they can find 1 or 2 that were violated? Allow me to translate:
They're in the back room counting up the bribes and seeing if it's enough to make this go away.
Winner.
And -- you just gave me some great material for a chapter.
The real "Gladiator School" is a federal prison in El Reno, OK. This is where Timothy Mc Veigh was held. It's a place where young bank robbers are doing life with no parole. Bad, bad, bad boys........! No "I didn't steal the JZ shirt!"
26000/40 hrs per week = 650 weeks, there is 52 weeks in a year , if they work 50 weeks per year and take two weeks off then one guard works 50 weeks in a year >> 650 /50 = 13 guards
That means 13 guards were missing in a single facility for 1 year long in 2012 only.. Thats a lot of money saved for CCA.. If they pay $70K for a Guard then 13x$70,000 = $910,000 almost 1 million dollar profit per year.
Wow, that's almost exaclty what the CEO got paid!
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=CXW
It's not just that, but I would be that they don't hire the most competent people at that facility. I know the private prison in my neck of the woods hired a cousin of mine, AFTER he was discharged from the Army under section 8, and with good reason. He's mellowed a lot, but I still wouldn't trust him in that position.
Think about it a second. Probably a great place for him though.
Who can forget this FUCKING CREEP?
http://rollingout.com/criminal-behavior/judge-must-serve-28-years-after-...
To: Joeblowinvestor
I hadn't seen that article on the corrupt judge before... thanks for sharing. Sending this corrupt judge off to Gladiator School would
be a pleasure.
Great. The corrupt FBI is going to investigate the corrupt private prison system. If I hold my breath waiting for real meaningful change to come as a result, how many times will I pass out and how much brain damage will I suffer?
The FBI will do a great job -- once word is passed down on what the result of the investigation will be.
They will find that not enough white people were beaten to death and make the necessary corrections........
"I don't suffer from mental illness, I enjoy every minute!"
outsource that to Russia ,they make a handsome profit and inmates will appreciate the nice life in the USA.
I used to think the future might look like Mad Max but in reality the present does for some Americans.
Is this where Snake Plisskin ended up?
probably no different than today's public schools.
I thought you weren't supposed to talk about fight club .
Spartacus Vs. Gluteus Maximus.
Potato diggers are tough.
... but, according to Fox News and Zero Hedge, capitalism unobstracted by regulations is a solution to all problems. I mean, market forces is the only answer to all questions, right, right?
Re: I mean, market forces is the only answer to all questions, right, right
Not sure about Faux News, but here: There's some Red Team articles, a few Blue Team articles, lots Libertarian articles, and Gold articles.
Soooo, depends on the article, but mostly right.
Unfortunately over the past few weeks I'm seeing more and more hyper-partisan nit wit commentators like you here. Why don't you go back to NYT of breitbart. I stopped reading comments on those sites due to the mindless red/blue sparring.
Crime families can only recognize organized crime.
No. Um, Capitalism with a small amount of government regulation is the solution to all problems. Not mountains of government regulation and not no regulation at all, which is anarchy.
Capitalism works in most cases very well. Note that what has been happening in this country for the last few decades is that Capitalism has not been allowed to run its course and has been getting 'fixed' with Socialism - such as intervening to bail out banks, businesses, etc. with increasingly more government money and programs and regulation.
Capitalism is not perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than a whole lot of the other ideas we're seeing being used today. Expecially, and not limited to Communism and Socialism.
You are very smart. What is your name?
http://www.pacovilla.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/CCA-BoyZ.png
A criminal is a criminal -even if one is a state-sanctioned.
The US prison system as whole is a disgrace...it's nothing but modern slavery.
yes, where the taxpayer is the slave, the prison execs are the plantation owners, and the prisoners are the cotton....
Welcome to Fight Club, bitchez.
gimme my shoes back. /bitch
gimme my shoes back. /bitch
And this story about prisoners being treated like savages is supposed to upset us - why, again?
I ... don't even know where to start ...
Don't bother. He is too far gone.
But...but... if the DoJ investigates the TBTF Prison System won't that cause terrible upheaval in our Justice system? The impact to private investors could be devastating. We're going to need to prepare another Bailout.
Holder's "See no evil" approach has saved America many times over. He should get a Nobel Peace Prize for stirring the least amount of ripples during a historic Monsoon of fraud and crime.
Then again, if the CCA types go to jail, they can run the prisons from within for free. I think they have a good idea and now just need to live it.
"Nothin' says Merica like "Private Prison".
That's an instant classic.
White collar crime always pays. This is giving me ideas...
Creating for-profit prisons incentivizes the entire system to send as many people as possible to prison. If reducing crime reduces profits then crime will not be reduced. Those who attempt to reduce crime automatically become the enemy of the system.
This is a blacklist episode right?
....meanwhile other criminals continue to walk the streets in their $5000 dollar suits, driving their masserati's catering to their useless trophy wives who contribute nothing to society. The banksters and politicians who deserve a cell of their own are never prosecuted, and the rest of us get the shaft with struggling to pay the mortgage, health insurance etc. etc. It amazes me that society in America isn't absolutely fed up with continualy getting the shaft.
Don't get me wrong, there are people that deserve to be in prison for the crimes they've committed, but what needs to take place for a total cleansing of this corruption from our society? It's basically spitting in humanity's face when I see stories like this after watching Assault on Wall Street. It fucking pisses me off to know entire families are being sacrificed for a fiat dollar, and we wage wars in the name of democracy. The same democracy that the 1% laugh at and show no respect whatsoever for having.
I really hope this Wave of Action on April 4th brings something of substance and we see shit loads of other deserving criminals fill the cells of these for-profit prisions to the max.........oh and it's been a while, I almost forgot... FUCK YOU BERNANKE! MAY YOU ROT IN HELL WITH THE REST OF YOUR CRONY BITCH MOTHERFUCKING BUTT BUDDIES!
If u like ur prison, u can keep ur prison.
Time for the US version of the French Foreign Legion. Send these guys to Barry's redlines....
But...but..but I was always told that private companies do a better job then the government.