{"id":9133,"date":"2009-06-16T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-06-16T19:02:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T19:02:05","slug":"arnold-privatize-everythingespecially-the-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/16\/arnold-privatize-everythingespecially-the-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold: Privatize Everything…Especially the Prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/object>In an interview with KQED’s John Myers<\/a>, Arnold makes his usual level of sense, which is to say very little. As I understand his point, if you cut from one area, you can spend it in another.  Of course, this doesn’t really address the overall structural deficit, but, um, that’s Arnold for you.<\/p>\n

He spends quite a while discussing privatizing prisons. He’s wanted to do it for a long time, partly because he’s no fan of the CCPOA (California Correction and Peace Officers Association), but also because he’s just really into privatization.  I love how he talks about all of the great (??) aspects of prisons being cheaper per prisoner, but ignores the failings of private prisons. Like this:
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For-profit prison companies like CCA have always presented themselves as both cheaper and better than the traditional publicly owned prisons, staffed by state employees. However, from the mayhem and murders at the prison in Youngstown, Ohio, which eventually led to the company paying $1.6 million to prisoners to settle a lawsuit, to a series of wrongful death civil suits, and numerous disturbances and escapes, the authors document in detail a staggering range of failures of prison management.<\/p>\n