tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post505495489426604982..comments2024-03-23T08:51:09.577-08:00Comments on Progressive Alaska: Has Privatized Corrections Management Worked for Alaska? - Part OnePhilip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-65137596909902869512010-02-11T19:00:54.579-09:002010-02-11T19:00:54.579-09:00Should private citizens tell them off? I really ho...Should private citizens tell them off? I really hope that with the trouple they have caused that they steer clear of our state.<br /><br />What was up with Weimar? Was he looking for problems?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-30228988907418497412010-02-11T18:42:47.563-09:002010-02-11T18:42:47.563-09:00Hey let's just privatise the court system and...Hey let's just privatise the court system and the state police with it. Cornell would love to bid on that as well. Next year it will be a note from your preacher to get any government service. <br />Sorry i must have read too much news today.AKjahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002915509772302920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-41951490382723185792010-02-11T15:23:06.854-09:002010-02-11T15:23:06.854-09:00Good for you for taking this one. The private cor...Good for you for taking this one. The private corrections industry is appalling on so many levels.CGinWInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-85933933346710430392010-02-11T13:20:06.812-09:002010-02-11T13:20:06.812-09:00Glad you're writing about this. Even without t...Glad you're writing about this. Even <i>without</i> taking onto account the factors you name, it's debatable whether private operation of prisons is less expansive than public operation by the state. <a href="http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/journals/259/prison-privatization.htm" rel="nofollow">This article at National Institute of Justice website</a> gives a good rundown of the problems involved just in making proper cost comparisons between the private v. public prison operation.<br /><br />And a one-page study by a legislator is not something I'd want to base any such evaluation upon.<br /><br />Another thing is how corrections populations in the U.S. have been exploding over the past three decades, mostly thanks to the "war on drugs" that began in 1980 with the Reagan Administration. The U.S. now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. We passed up Russia for this dubious honor sometime around 2004 or 2005 I think. Private corporations must wet themselves every time they think about this. All those prisoners -- all that money!<br /><br />Putting prison operation in the hands of private corporations which profit from imprisoning people is not good public policy for so many reasons.Melissa S. Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12858548044405913769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-30733387251843157982010-02-11T09:05:23.977-09:002010-02-11T09:05:23.977-09:00My concern is with the education, training and the...My concern is with the education, training and therapy that is absent while incarcerated...our prisoners need to have other doors of opportunity opened when released that do not drive them back into criminal activity out of desparation and absence from the job market. As well as the therapy for whatever the mind set, besides poverty, that may have led them into prison, violence, abuse, neglect...this is our community's chance for mediation, guidance and support and eventually, true forgiveness. The for profit people are only interested in more prisoners and their imminent return.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-26886675914168435732010-02-11T07:51:21.454-09:002010-02-11T07:51:21.454-09:00anon @ 7:25 am: Had Bill listened to me, he would...anon @ 7:25 am: Had Bill listened to me, he would never have gotten into the trouble he did. Maybe some other kind instead, though.Philip Mungerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-11175409720592256152010-02-11T07:25:53.223-09:002010-02-11T07:25:53.223-09:00Bill Weimar is one of the most despicable profitee...Bill Weimar is one of the most despicable profiteers Alaska has ever seen. Too bad he didn't get more jail time.<br /><br />I hope you didn't pick up any of his bad habits or his morals. Yikes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com