By Amanda Peterson Beadle posted from ThinkProgress Justice on Nov 16, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Last year the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison company, received $74 million of taxpayers’ money to run immigration detention centers. Their largest facility in Lumpkin, Georgia, receives $200 a night for each of the 2,000 detainees it holds, and rakes in yearly profits between $35 million and $50 million.
Prisoners held in this remote facility depend on the prison’s phones to communicate with their lawyers and loved ones. Exploiting inmates’ need, CCA charges detainees here $5 per minute to make phone calls. Yet the prison only pays inmates who work at the facility $1 a day. At that rate, it would take five days to pay for just one minute.
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For those that say that the private sector can do things better let this be a lesson. They don't know how to pick a phone company. Forget magic jack and vonage, even AT&T could save you 75 to 90 percent on those calls. They would even throw in free cell phones (pun intended) and make a killing.
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Prisoners held in this remote facility depend on the prison’s phones to communicate with their lawyers and loved ones. Exploiting inmates’ need, CCA charges detainees here $5 per minute to make phone calls. Yet the prison only pays inmates who work at the facility $1 a day. At that rate, it would take five days to pay for just one minute.
See video and read more
For those that say that the private sector can do things better let this be a lesson. They don't know how to pick a phone company. Forget magic jack and vonage, even AT&T could save you 75 to 90 percent on those calls. They would even throw in free cell phones (pun intended) and make a killing.
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