tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post5213510056544677944..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Private prison contract renewals may cost Texas additional millionsGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-44476895864710539042015-02-24T22:41:19.992-06:002015-02-24T22:41:19.992-06:00Take the PROFITTEERS out of Texas...prison profitt...Take the PROFITTEERS out of Texas...prison profitteers have no place in Texas....commissary goods, private prisons, offender phone-per-super cost.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-45110654157695931382011-05-20T16:12:33.809-05:002011-05-20T16:12:33.809-05:00If you don't like private prisons you can spen...If you don't like private prisons you can spend more of your tax money to run 100 year old state prisons but you can' t have it both ways more taxes or private prisonsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-18927938138382498302011-01-18T09:22:54.710-06:002011-01-18T09:22:54.710-06:00A private prison for parole violators is bidding f...A private prison for parole violators is bidding for a new contract to continue operating at 4700 Blue Mound Road. The facility is run by The GEO Group, which has had a spotty record with some of its other Texas prison facilities the past several years. Before the contract is awarded, a public hearing will be held.Golf Videoshttp://www.golf.astasports.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-15018004436137689472011-01-18T09:21:51.257-06:002011-01-18T09:21:51.257-06:00A private prison for parole violators is bidding f...A private prison for parole violators is bidding for a new contract to continue operating at 4700 Blue Mound Road. The facility is run by The GEO Group, which has had a spotty record with some of its other Texas prison facilities the past several years. Before the contract is awarded, a public hearing will be held.Golf Lessonshttp://www.golf.astasports.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-85767834450992716902010-03-10T19:30:42.656-06:002010-03-10T19:30:42.656-06:00TexasAnnie said...
Private prisons for profit...TexasAnnie said...<br /><br /> Private prisons for profit is just wrong and all should be closed. They make their money off of human beings being a commodity. And one reason TX sentences have become longer, and more laws being felonies is just to feed the profit machine.<br /> Close them all, and go back to non profit state ran. Maybe then we would no longer be the state with largest per capita prison population.<br /><br /> Human beings should never be a business commodity.<br /><br /> 3/09/2010 08:27:00 AM<br />-----------------------------------<br />AMEN! Welcome to the largest prison-industrial complex in the free world. TEXAS!!! YEE-HAW!!!!Hook Em Hornshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04660612847019528535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-69882019243638716262010-03-09T20:19:10.723-06:002010-03-09T20:19:10.723-06:00Kathie ~ You need to contact Diana Claitor at the ...Kathie ~ You need to contact Diana Claitor at the Texas Jail Project<br />http://www.texasjailproject.org/complaints<br /><br />(512) 597-8746<br /><br />Susan Fenner<br />Texas Inmate Families Association<br />tifa@tifa.org www.tifa.orgsfennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09922519744144951171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-27753555584334199812010-03-09T17:05:09.793-06:002010-03-09T17:05:09.793-06:00I NEED HELP MY BROTHER IS IN YOUR MAVRICK DETENTIO...I NEED HELP MY BROTHER IS IN YOUR MAVRICK DETENTION CENTER IN EAGLE PASS, TEXAS. HE HAS M/S AND IS NOT BEING TREATED. HE IS GOING DOWN HILL FAST. I NEED TO KNOW WHO CAN HELP ME WITH THIS PROBLEM. HIS NAME IS GARY L. DIETERMAN GEO UM2001-280. HE HAS BEEN WRONGLY ACCUSED, THEY HAVE NO PROOF AND NO EVDIENCE. HIS P/D WON'T DO ANYTHING EXCEPT GET POST PONDMENTS. MY NAME IS KATHIE THORLEY AND I LIVE IN FLORIDA AND DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO . PLEASE IF ANYONE READ THIS I NEED HELP, BEFORE IT'S TO LATE HIS HEALTH IS FAILING, THANK YOU E-MAIL kathie50@live.comkathie thorleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-34974200025982809692010-03-09T09:17:51.766-06:002010-03-09T09:17:51.766-06:00Private prisons are a legal policy option. Unfort...Private prisons are a legal policy option. Unfortunately, it is also a dangerous policy option. First, the "reduced costs" are artificial because they exclude all high cost components which makes the costs associated with state facilities look higher on that fact alone. Second, the profit margins and interest on their construction loans are directly passed onto the public through the daily rate (like a hotel) without providing added public service benefits for those costs. Third, like any hotel, benefits (i.e., profits) are privatized to the company and its shareholders and costs are socialized to the tax payer. Fourth, there is no such thing as too much confinement in a civil society -- they will gladly build prisons if our policies will continue to fill them. Fifth, and MOST IMPORTANT, increased reliance on private providers for prison incarceration gradually shifts policy influence to private providers who will lobby aggressively for laws that fill prisons (e.g., longer sentences, more crimes, less use of parole and probation) and against policies rely less on prison space (e.g., expanded use of probation and parole, legalization or decriminalization of drugs). <br /><br />The advice from Anon Retired LE at 3:09 on Mar. 8 to privatize all prisons would be a disasterous policy decision because it would immediately transfer all public interest representation on corrections policy into the hands of private providers who would then control both the lobbyist sector and corrections bureaucracy providing advice to legislators. Under such conditions we could easily see policy capture and rapid increases in prison populations. <br /><br />So, how much is too much incarceration in a "free society"? The answer to that question is important to a free society. The answer to that question is very different when viewed from the profit interest and values of the private prison industry than from the public interest perspective of public officials.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-3585368260369407552010-03-09T08:27:42.819-06:002010-03-09T08:27:42.819-06:00Private prisons for profit is just wrong and all s...Private prisons for profit is just wrong and all should be closed. They make their money off of human beings being a commodity. And one reason TX sentences have become longer, and more laws being felonies is just to feed the profit machine. <br />Close them all, and go back to non profit state ran. Maybe then we would no longer be the state with largest per capita prison population.<br /><br />Human beings should never be a business commodity.TexasAnniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17941563639622338467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-12806177576771544262010-03-09T02:52:06.221-06:002010-03-09T02:52:06.221-06:00Yes, 7:40, Brad Livingston. I corrected it in the ...Yes, 7:40, Brad Livingston. I corrected it in the post. Just a brain fart!Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-27982408711538110522010-03-09T00:07:55.704-06:002010-03-09T00:07:55.704-06:00Dont renew them.Dont renew them.Hook Em Hornshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04660612847019528535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-14057611054634653072010-03-08T23:18:04.669-06:002010-03-08T23:18:04.669-06:00Hospitals have JCAHO to keep them inline. CCA is ...Hospitals have JCAHO to keep them inline. CCA is developed for TDCJ to pretend they have an accrediting body that over-see's them. It's a joke. The private prison's are even worse than TDCJ from the experiences my friends who've had sons in the private run sites have shared. We need a better over-seeing body before we spend millions on private run organizations that mis-treat human beings and facilitate mis-treatment of human beings. ...SandraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-57412730432018256072010-03-08T19:40:28.520-06:002010-03-08T19:40:28.520-06:00Do you mean Brad Livingston?Do you mean Brad Livingston?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-64133010602071410652010-03-08T17:10:11.423-06:002010-03-08T17:10:11.423-06:00That's right, 4:07. Privates' cost per day...That's right, 4:07. Privates' cost per day do not include transportation costs.<br /><br />Also, no privates operate ad seg units, which are much more expensive. Inmates with extreme disciplinary problems are transferred back to state-run units.<br /><br />Between not paying for health care, transportation, and only supervising better-behaved inmates, those 3 things largely explain private prisons' supposedly lower per-inmate costs.Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-4776830153848859962010-03-08T16:07:41.304-06:002010-03-08T16:07:41.304-06:00Don't think it includes transportation costs e...Don't think it includes transportation costs either and something else (will have to look up because all 3 make a big difference!).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-2690708838350150662010-03-08T15:09:06.632-06:002010-03-08T15:09:06.632-06:00Personnel expenses attribute more than 50% plus of...Personnel expenses attribute more than 50% plus of TDCJ's operating budget. Private prison contracts are a bargain for the state in the way of reducing personnel and personnel associated costs (salary, overtime, health insurance, workers compensation, retirement, holiday and sick pay.)<br /><br />Perhaps TDCJ should consider contracting out their existing facilities as well.<br /><br />Retired LEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com