Profiting Off Inmates
Journalist Silja J.A. Talvi went undercover at the American Correctional Association’s 2005 Winter Conference in Phoenix last month. The organization of wardens was originally designed to promote " rehabilitation, religious redemption and humane treatment of prisoners." But that was back in 1870. Today, Talvi writes, its focus has shifted to profiting from inmates.
Scores of individuals from prison acquisition and purchasing departments, consulting agencies, and the ranks of high-level prison administrators had come to the conference for networking, recruiting and, above all, business.
And they weren't disappointed.
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