by TChris

The Correctional Services Corporation is finally taking some well-deserved heat, but it's still able to obtain lucrative government contracts despite its dismal history as an administrator of private prisons.

A report by the Justice Dept.'s Civil Rights Division describes how CSC employees "brutally beat youths" at a facility in Maryland. The report says that "basic living conditions didn’t meet even the lowest constitutional standards."

Yet Homeland Security hired the CSC to operate a new detention center in Tacomah designed to house 700 undocumented immigrants as they wait to be deported. Homeland Security also hired CSC to operate a facility in Texas.

If the goal is to divert governmental functions to the private sector in order to move tax dollars into corporate hands, privatization is working well. If the goal is to obtain better services at a lower cost while maintaining accountability, CSC and Halliburton prove privatization doesn't always deliver.