http://www.evolution-nextstep.com/archives/2632 take the next step Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:35:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.evolution-nextstep.com/archives/2632#comment-4408 Frank Smith Fri, 05 May 2006 05:05:12 +0000 http://www.evolution-nextstep.com/archives/2632#comment-4408 You've raised a number of points and let me answer a few. There is a lot of research around that proves for-profit prisons are more expensive than state run prisons and some that purports to "prove" the converse. It is generally industry-supported or performed, done often by disgraced researchers. There's plenty of uncontroverted research that shows the for-profits don't improve the rural economies, where they're usually sited. They pay terribly to line staff. GEO Group has been pushing this proposal in Kansas with big campaign contributions and the promise of massive ones in the future. GEO was recruiting for guards in Indiana two weeks ago for $8 hour. There is no way they could build in the community, Woodson County, that thinks they're going to get such a prison, if the ban on new privates is repealed, because no sufficient work force exists in a 50-mile radius. Derek Schmidt personally (not the legislature) has pushed this. I ran into him at the capitol Tuesday evening and he glad handed me and said we had a difference of opinion on the for-profits. I said we did, but the facts were on my side. He went away grumpy. You’ve raised a number of points and let me answer a few. There is a lot of research around that proves for-profit prisons are more expensive than state run prisons and some that purports to “prove” the converse. It is generally industry-supported or performed, done often by disgraced researchers. There’s plenty of uncontroverted research that shows the for-profits don’t improve the rural economies, where they’re usually sited. They pay terribly to line staff. GEO Group has been pushing this proposal in Kansas with big campaign contributions and the promise of massive ones in the future. GEO was recruiting for guards in Indiana two weeks ago for $8 hour. There is no way they could build in the community, Woodson County, that thinks they’re going to get such a prison, if the ban on new privates is repealed, because no sufficient work force exists in a 50-mile radius. Derek Schmidt personally (not the legislature) has pushed this. I ran into him at the capitol Tuesday evening and he glad handed me and said we had a difference of opinion on the for-profits. I said we did, but the facts were on my side. He went away grumpy.

]]>