Prison

After taking a class last semester called Insurgency and Globalization of Discontent, I became very interested in the prison system in the U.S. I have been looking around on prisonsucks.com quite a bit. I have been reading about the people involved in decision-making aspects pertaining to the prisons. Most interesting(or shocking) is the American Correctional Association (ACA) for its involvement in prison expansion and its accreditation program. I plan on posting as much as I can about the ACA and the individuals involved in the business of prisons. To start I have put a link below about Ronald J Angelone, director of Virginia's Department of Corrections and a chairman of the ACA. It is unbelievable the people that are approving the standards in prisons...

Ronald J Angelone

Another story that is very important was covered on Democracy Now. This is the story of a man, his wife, and his son traveling from Guyana to Canada. The plane had to make an emergency landing in the U.S. and this man and his family were detained for not having a United States visa. They were or are still being held, I'm unclear on this, at the T Don Hutto Residential Center in Texas. I was interested in this story and did more research on the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). The CCA is a private business, with interests in profit generation, that runs many facilities all over the U.S.

Read/Watch the Democracy Now segment on this family

Corrections Corporation of America website
(I am not including a link to this site as a promotion of their services. I am posting it as a research reference and so you can see for yourself the info this site provides)

Click to read a report by Philip Mattera and Mafruza Khan titled, Corrections Corporation of America: A Critical Look at its First Twenty Years