Ties like her c ampaign manager and her spokesman being former lobbyists for private prison companies.
The city has also been approached as a possible site for a private prison.
Tim Murphy digs into the big business of the private prison industry over at Mother Jones.
In its new incarnation it is still run by the Corrections Corporation of America, a private prison company.
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Every private prison has a director who carries out a role similar to that of the governor in a public sector jail.
But by law, a private prison must also have a controller who is a government employee and works to the Justice Secretary.
The general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union, Mark Serwotka, called for an independent review of the private prison system.
The Lake Erie Correctional Institution in Conneaut, Ohio, just west of the Pennsylvania border, serves as an experiment in private prison administration by the Ohio Department of Corrections.
By creating an entity called a taxable REIT subsidiary (TRS), the companies can separate the operational side of their private prison management from the real estate side of owning and generating income from correctional facilities.
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Wells Fargo owns 4 million shares in the Geo Group, the second largest private prison corporation in America, and 50, 000 shares in the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the largest private prison corporation in the country.
The only way Louisiana's local sheriffs and private-prison operators can make a profit on the per-diem payment is to skimp on costs.
The private investigator was sentenced to prison in 2007 for illegally intercepting voicemails.
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Yes, she went home from prison in a private jet, but she did her time, and her fellow inmates gave her a poncho that they made themselves.
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Granted, there were only 4 sessions a year, but Eric also offered private lessons not sanctioned by the prison.
For big savings, a state would have to cut services to inmates, from drug treatment to counselling, whether the prison is public or private.
Certainly there is the dead weight of the prison bureaucracy, a Kafkaesque interleaving of public service boondoggling and private sector lobbying, whose raison d'etre is not the reduction of the prison population but its increase.
Coulson was the editor of the News of the World newspaper in 2007 when Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were sentenced to prison for hacking into voice mails of members of the royal family's staff.
Parc was the first prison to be designed, constructed and managed under the Government's Private Finance Initiative, and was awarded a 25-year contract by HM Prison Service in 1995.
Mr Shannon condemned Moorhouse Prison in Kilmarnock which is run by the private company, Premier Prisons.
Second, private prisons sometimes have lower costs, if they can keep prison-guard unions at bay.
Designed to hold 700 prisoners, the prison opened in December 2008 and is run by private firm, Sodexo Justice Services.
The chief inspector of prisons is shortly to report on two new prisons, Altcourse near Liverpool run by Group 4, a private security firm, and Lowdham Grange near Nottingham, operated by Premier Prison Services.
Ms Petersilia estimates that it takes seven years to build a new state prison in California, but only one year to open the equivalent private facility, through leasing, converting or building.
The attack came to light as it was announced G4S had lost its contract to run Wolds prison in East Yorkshire and failed to win a number of other private jail contracts.
We estimate that sequestration will mean over 3, 800 fewer jobs related to the prison activations that would be foregone (including an estimated 1, 500 private sector jobs).
When she requested Ms Valdivia to stay out of her father's prison cell at the Callao Naval Base so that she could speak in private, the lawyer refused and allegedly struck her.
The so-called "Vatileaks" scandal last year led to the pope's butler, Paolo Gabriele, being convicted on charges of leaking private papers from the Vatican in a high-profile trial and sentenced to 18 months in prison.
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