… and the miracle of the free-market capitalism.
From the Associated Press:
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal appeals court said Friday can be held liable for negligence by a man who spent almost a year in solitary confinement at a southern Nevada facility without ever seeing a judge on marijuana-related charges.
The 9th U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco said a jury can hear Rudy Rivera’s lawsuit claiming that CoreCivic Inc. employees failed to tell the U.S. Marshals Service while Rivera languished in custody from November 2015 to October 2016 at the Nevada Southern Detention Center outside Las Vegas.
MIstakes were made. Or were they? Because CoreCivic got paid for every day it kept its bed filled with Rudy Rivera for almost a year and Rivera finally got out of solitary, so win-win.
John Scott-Railton has more on Twitter sourced from the 9th Circuit:
Here I thought the nation’s largest private prison corporation was CCA, Corrections Corporation of America. The Eden Detention Center immigrant-warehousing people.
AP again:
CoreCivic, which is publicly traded and was formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America, secured its first federal contract in 1983. Nearly $400 million worth of U.S. Marshals Service business accounted for 21% of company revenues in 2020, according to the company’s annual Securities and Exchange Commission report.
Like Philip Morris is now Altria. Blackwater mercenaries now work for Academi (which for a stretch was Xe Services).
Conservatives look askance at government. Especially at programs that help people. Give the Left a chance and they just grow the government and take more tax money out of Real Americans’ ™ pockets for people who don’t deserve it. The taxes-are-theft (and no-free-lunch) bunch then sold Americans on the notion they could get the same services for less by unleashing the private sector.
New highway? Public-private-partnmership! More prisons? Privatize ’em. Incentivize ’em to keep prison beds filled and revenues up. Maybe even bribe judges. Taxes: bad. User fees: good.
Ask Mr. Rivera how the miracle of the marketplace worked out for him.