Included in the offerings to private firms is an opportunity to manage the captivity of those condemned to die: a move that, for the first time ever, would put a U.S. state’s death row in corporate hands, <\/font>according to The New York Times<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n "While executions would still be performed by the state, officials said, the Department of Corrections would relinquish all other day-to-day operations to the private operator and pay a per-diem fee for each prisoner," the Times added\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <Raw Story<\/a>><\/p>\n Given my history as an ex-convict and and prison volunteer, I\u2019m quite familiar with CCA and know many men who have been imprisoned in their facilities. They manage prisons as well as private contractors managed VA hospitals, if you remember those scandals. Given CCA\u2019s long and well known track record for malfeasance, mismanagement, and prisoner abuse, Arizona may be trying to cut down on the number of executions they perform, as fewer death row prisoners will survive until their execution date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arizona will be farming out the management of its death row facilities to CCA (Corporate Corrections of America). The State of Arizona, seeking to close a $2 billion budget gap, is planning to open bidding on all but one of its prison facilities. Included in the offerings to private firms is an opportunity to manage […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"prison\"](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/CCAtogetArizonaDeathRow_22FF\/prison.jpg\" "\\"prison\\"")
<\/a> The State of Arizona, seeking to close a $2 billion budget gap, is planning to open bidding on all but one of its prison facilities. <\/font><\/p>\n