The GOP's Shady Plan to Privatize Prisons

By Suzy Khimm, Mother Jones
Posted on April 28, 2011, Printed on April 30, 2011
http://www.alternet.org/story/150775/the_gop%27s_shady_plan_to_privatize_prisons

Last August, two prisoners escaped from an Arizona penitentiary and fled to New Mexico, where they ambushed a couple, shot them to death, and lit their bodies on fire inside a trailer.

These fugitives didn't escape from just any facility: They were housed in a privately run prison managed by the Utah-based Management Training Corporation. After the incident, a review by the Arizona Department of Corrections concluded that the prison had poorly trained staff and deficient equipment—including a faulty security system that emitted so many false alarms, the prison staff simply ignored it.