[Vision2020] Idaho Shame: Private Contractors, ICC, and CCA

[lfalen]

Saundra
You make some good points. On something slightly different, I think the authorities should forget about tring Dan Noble and concentrate on treatment.
Roger

-----Original message-----
From: "Saundra Lund" v2020 at ssl.fastmail.fm
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:27:06 -0800
To: Vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Idaho Shame:  Private Contractors, ICC, and CCA

> Visionaries:
> 
> Based on previous comments, I'm well-aware that some here don't give a rip
> about society's obligation to those we incarcerate.  So, those folks may as
> well delete this post right now.
> 
> For the rest of us, many/most are probably aware of widespread abuses by
> PCS's (private security contractors) hired by the government (i.e.,
> Blackwater-cum-Xe; CACI, Titan, etc.).
> 
> However, how many of were aware of gross abuses happening right here in
> Idaho?
> 
> Thursday, the ACLU "filed a class action federal lawsuit charging that
> officials at the Idaho Correctional Center (ICC) promote and facilitate a
> culture of rampant violence that has led to carnage and suffering among
> prisoners at the state-owned facility operated by the for-profit company
> Corrections Corporation of America (CCA)."
> 
> For those interested in learning what we-the-people of the State of Idaho
> are calling "justice" right here at home, you can read more here:
> http://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/aclu-lawsuit-charges-idaho-prison-offic
> ials-promote-rampant-violence
> OR
> http://tinyurl.com/ACLU-ICC-CCA
> 
> And, if you have the stomach for it and want to understand . . . *really*
> understand the role of for-profit CCA in this shame, please read the
> complaint itself:
> http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/2010-3-11-Riggs-SecondAmendedComplaint.pdf
> 
> 
> 
> Saundra Lund
> Moscow, ID
> 
> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
> nothing.
> ~ Edmund Burke
> 
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