Profits of Punishment

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Tough new sentencing laws across the U.S. are resulting in an influx of prisoners, creating massive overcrowding. Many States are responding to this crisis by contracting out the management and liability of prisoners to private multi-national corporations.

The business of prisons has become a new, powerful industry. Recession proof, these companies, such as Wackenhut Corrections Corp., have seen record rises in their stock prices. In the era of 'Law and Order' and 'Zero Tolerance,' PROFITS OF PUNISHMENT explores a relationship between government and business that affects every American - the business of incarceration.

Is this creating a market driven incentive to lock more people up and for longer periods of time? Are prisoners now commodities to be traded on the stock exchange?

PROFITS OF PUNISHMENT looks at these questions, and critics of the system discuss why they feel governments are not looking more seriously for alternatives that might prevent crime and reduce prison populations.

In Texas, we visit the assembly line in the Lockhart Work Facility, a private prison owned and managed by Wackenhut. This prison factory makes circuit boards for a company that closed its own plant - laying off its entire workforce - before reopening in Lockhart prison. We also follow the prison entrepreneurs to a giant prison convention, where salesmen market the latest prison products, such as portable restraint devices, stackable cells and the latest surveillance technology. The film contrasts this unusual world of business with scenes depicting prisoner's real life experiences, revealing the human cost of this brave new world of prisons for profit.

Questions are raised after watching the film: How do these parallel and opposing universes affect each other? What happens to justice when money is made out of the deprivation of liberty?

'Intriguing! Provocative! Raises constitutional and fundamental human rights questions that are very much to the point.'-Bridges, An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History and Science

'Highly Recommended! Well structured and well paced... An interesting and disturbing insight into prison privatization, and other profit making enterprises in the American penal system. It's sound and picture qualities are good.'-Educational Media Reviews Online

'One of the best, most thought provoking videos I have seen related to corrections'-Kevin E. Courtright, Criminal Justice Policy Review

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Main credits

Scott, Catherine (film director)
Scott, Catherine (film producer)
Scott, Catherine (screenwriter)
Fiske, Pat (film producer)
Lyssa, Alison (screenwriter)

Other credits

Editors, Andrew Arestides and Catherine Scott; director of photography, Stephen Broadhurst; composer, Davood A. Tabrizi.

MARC Record See Worldcat record

Keywords

Prison; Jail; corrections; corporate; profit making; Private; privatized; incarceration; Prisons; Wackenhut; WCC; tough on crime; crime; criminal justice; Correction Center; Incarceration; Sheriff Arpaio; documentary; film; video; "Profits of Punishment"; Icarus Films,doc

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There are now at least two
million people in the country\'s

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prisons and jails.

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I don\'t like empty beds.

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We\'re a private business.

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I want my facility filled up.

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The private prison industry
in the United States

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is always looking
for new markets.

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And right now, they\'re focusing
on international markets,

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on Great Britain, on Australia,
on Canada, on South Africa.

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Another demonstration
of the dominance

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of black in the corrections in
the international marketplace.

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There is a growing
prison industrial complex

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in the United States,
including political leaders who

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benefit by appearing
tough on crime,

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includes private companies
who build new prisons

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and service existing prisons and
make enormous monies from that.

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It includes prison and
correctional officials,

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wardens who run state prisons.

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We should certainly not
be surprised at the growth

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of private prisons.

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We should really
focus our attention

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on the circumstances
that have led

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to this huge increase
in population

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and this amount of money that\'s
out there for the taking.

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I believe that the United
States judicial system

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is a great big scam.

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They make more money than
the top 10 Fortune 500

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companies combined.

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I read that in a
magazine, Forbes.

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It\'s my understanding
that crime is

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no more rampant than it was
60 years ago or 30 years ago,

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for that matter.

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The thing is that crime is
getting more and more exposure.

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And the politicians, they\'re
playing on that exposure

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and making it look
like crime has

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reached an epidemic proportion.

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And really, it has not worsened.

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I mean, there\'s
been studies done

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and statistics say that
crime is no worse now

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than it was 20, 30 years ago.

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But for politicians
to get elected, They.

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Have to find some
type of platform.

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And crime seems to be the
most attractive platform.

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Put a shovel in my hands.

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Put a shovel in my hands.

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Picking up trash
throughout the land.

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Picking up trash
throughout the land.

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I\'m the first
person in the world

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to put females on a chain gang.

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I\'m an equal opportunity
incarcerator.

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They want to fly jet
airplanes and they

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want to fly rockets
to the moon, they\'re

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going to be treated the same
way when they commit a crime.

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[INTERPOSING VOICES]

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During this period of
dismantling the welfare state,

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punishment has become far
more profitable than ever.

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We\'re dealing in
a situation where

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society as a whole is
clamoring for a so-called

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get tough on crime
approach, locking up

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more and more people for longer
and longer periods of time.

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And that is inevitably
having an effect

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on the kinds of conditions
people are locked up in.

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Crime has dropped in America
for five straight years.

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And all over the country, we
open three 500 bed prisons

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a week in the United States.

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We already have the highest rate
of incarceration in the world.

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These tents are established in
a cheap land near the dump, dog

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pound, waste disposal plant.

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So you have to find
the land that\'s cheap.

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It\'s county land, so
this is a great location.

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Sheriff Arpaio is represented
as the symbol of law and order.

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He has created a
spectacle in an attempt

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to recapitulate the
past with the chain

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gangs and the stripes.

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And is willing to
go to all lengths

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in order to create
his punishment empire.

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When I became sure if I took
a lot of privileges away,

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took away their smoking.

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I show Newt Gingrich
every Tuesday.

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And then I show the Weather
Channel and Donald Duck.

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That\'s all they get.

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Took away their coffee.

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Saved $100,000.

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Feed them bologna sandwiches,
saved a half a million dollars.

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You\'re going to start
paying for your bologna.

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So I\'m going to charge
you guys $0.90 a day.

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It\'s only $0.90.

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That\'s how efficient we are.

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[INTERPOSING VOICES]

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A day.

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No, no, no. $0.30 a meal.

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It\'s only $0.90 a
day to feed you guys.

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We owe him $1 every
day that we eat here,

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plus have to work for him.

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Working seven days a week.

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I go to work at 12 and come
back at 9 in the morning.

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And that\'s how long I work.

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And I still got to
pay a dollar a day.

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Usually you\'re going to end
up in here because you can\'t

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pay your fines or whatever.

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But when you get in
here, it\'s even worse.

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You owe this guy $1 a day.

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I\'ve been here four months
on a probation violation.

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And I\'m going to leave
here owing-- what\'s that?

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$120.

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$120.

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If I come back, then it\'s
going to pick up from there.

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I\'ll keep owing.

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And if you don\'t pay
your bill, they\'re

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going to bring you in on
a failure to pay a fine.

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You know, we\'re like cattle.

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We\'re like a
margin-able product.

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What happened to
educating people?

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This is not education.

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If you take a dog and
you pin him up in a cage,

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you don\'t give him love, you
don\'t give him attention,

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the same dog you raised
from a puppy that

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loved you now will bite the
same hand that tries to pet him.

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That\'s the problem.

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The American people are becoming
victims of a bait and switch

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scam.

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Politicians want to
appear tough on crime

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because they know it wins
them votes because people

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are frustrated about crime.

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As a result, they promise
that they will fight crime.

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They will fight violent crime.

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They\'ll fight the murderers,
the rapists, the robbers,

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the people we all think about
when we think of the word

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crime, by building new prisons
and by proposing harsher laws

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to make sure people get locked
up for longer periods of time.

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Well, who goes
into these prisons?

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This is where the scam
comes in, because there\'s

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a switch that goes on.

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Once the prisons are built, the
people who end up going in them

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are mostly nonviolent offenders.

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84% of all people who
entered US prisons since 1980

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were convicted of
nonviolent offenses.

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I am currently servicing
a sentence for failure

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to appear on a charge of riding
a bicycle on the wrong side

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of the street.

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We can do this.

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Riding without a headlight
and trespassing through a park

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after hours.

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And I failed to
pay finds on that.

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I\'m serving 54 days of
my life incarcerated.

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It seems to me that we could
be using this prison and jail

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time for a little
more serious crime.

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Once you\'re out of
jail, you\'re out.

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If you get lucky to get
reinstated on probation,

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you got a couple of
weeks to get a job.

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If you don\'t get a job,
you\'re right back here.

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It\'s quite a system
they got going here.

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They get them locked in and
they can\'t get them out.

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I\'m doing a four month
study with the university

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to see if recidivism, which
means repeat offenders,

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come back.

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I\'m willing to take the
hit if the study says,

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Sheriff, it\'s not working.

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These guys are coming
back over and over

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and over again,
I\'ll take the hit.

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Been here a year?

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No, I was in here
a year last year.

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I was in here a whole year.

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You\'re back again?

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Restitution.

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They gave me four months for--

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Well, there\'s one guy that\'s
going to ruin my survey.

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There\'s more people that
are in here for drugs

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than for criminal charges.

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I know that\'s a criminal
charge, but still.

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This right here is not teaching
me how to not be on drugs.

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The more they take
away from us, the more

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we learn how to get around the
system to get what we want.

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Right.

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Because you have to.

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I mean, in order to
survive, you have

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to do what you need to do--

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We\'ve learned to
survive in here.

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--in order to survive.

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It\'s just like being out there
and being on the streets.

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You have to learn to survive
and take care of yourself.

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So you have to do
things that aren\'t right

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in order to do it sometimes.

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They disrespect us, so we
disrespect right out of-- you

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know what I\'m saying?

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You guys get frustrated.

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It\'s hot out here.

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It\'s crowded out here.

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And everyone realizes that.

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We all realize that.

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But you gotta remember
one thing, that you guys--

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and tell me if this isn\'t
true-- you guys get away

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with more stuff than
you actually get caught.

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Oh, of course we do.

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You know what it is?

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It\'s a big cat and mouse game.

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Exactly.

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OK.

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And that happens--

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You teach us how to
be better criminals.

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And things like that happen.

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You know what, if I had my
dog and I chained him out

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in this damn heat and I
gave him hot water to drink

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and expired food to eat,
Joe Arpaio would have my ass

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in here for cruelty to animals.

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There\'s a movie, baseball
movie, Field of Dreams.

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You build it and they\'ll
come, and they came.

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So that has really brought us to
looking at the whole underlying

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issue, why we find it
necessary to incarcerate

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so many people in this country.

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What are the forces that are
driving that huge increase

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in incarceration
that has taken place

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over the last 10, 15 years?

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And we\'re coming more
and more to believe

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that a large part of
what is driving that

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is the amount of
money to be made out

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of the business of corrections.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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There are about 20 to 30 private
prison companies in the United

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States that compete for
states to give them money

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to build and manage prisons.

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The two leading companies
are publicly traded,

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the Correctional Corporation
of America and Wackenhut.

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You can actually go out and
buy stock on the stock exchange

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to become an investor
in these companies.

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And, of course, the irony
is that the Correctional

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Corporation of America,
which controls about 50%

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of the private prison market,
is one of the hottest companies

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on the stock exchange.

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Wall Street investors
love this company.

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It posted the
fourth largest gain

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of any company in
the United States

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on the New York Stock
Exchange in 1995.

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Its profits have
been doubling year

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after year for the
last five years.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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[INAUDIBLE] clear.

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[? George out. ?]

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It\'s very interesting
that George Wackenhut

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is a former FBI agent--

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Good afternoon.

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Wackenhut Corporation.

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How may I direct your call?

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--who was very much involved
in the anti-Communist project,

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tracking thousands of
people who were represented

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as being Communists.

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Hi, I\'m George Wackenhut.

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So nice to see you.

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His security firm
became the basis

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for expanding into
the prison business.

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Unit two.

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Unit seven.

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Everything secure.

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Are you?

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Well, it\'s grown like wildfire
from zero beds in 1987

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to roughly 36,000 today.

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Wackenhut Corrections
is extremely proud

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to be the overwhelmingly
dominant developer

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of privatized prisons in
the international market.

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The most important factors
in order to reduce cost

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is the speed of construction.

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Obviously, the fastest
you build, the less cost

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of a facility.

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We probably design
about a project a month

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or every two months.

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We have a new project design.

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I would think we
could look forward

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to growth of anywhere
from 20% to 30%

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year over year of
the entire industry.

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The revenues last year
were about $300 million.

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This year, we\'re expecting
to make $400 million.

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Brickyard is here.

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The ambulance access
is through here.

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Our facilities are
usually lower cost

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than the conventional facilities
for two major reasons.

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One is the staffing.

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We design our facilities
to minimize staffing.

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And we can come up with a
price at a fraction of the time

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that the conventional
methods offer.

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You can see the number
of facilities that have

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been established in Australia.

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We\'re also very proud to
note that we\'ve recently

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been awarded 1,500 bed
prison in South Africa.

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Another demonstration
of the dominance

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of Wackenhut Corrections in
the international marketplace.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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One thing that\'s happened
in the United States

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is that prisons have become
profit centers for industry.

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There is a whole movement
in the United States

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to lease prison populations
to private companies,

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and the government
therefore can make money

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by leasing the prisoners
to the private industry.

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We work with US
Technologies, who

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is one of our industry partners,
and with Chatleff Controls,

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in order to provide workable
skills for the inmates

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that they can take
out into society.

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A company made computer
circuit boards in Austin.

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This company decided to
transfer its operations

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into a private prison.

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150 people in Austin lost their
jobs, and prisoners in Lockhart

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gained a job.

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Instead of paying
$8 to $10 an hour,

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they paid the minimum
wage, which at the time

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was $4.25 an hour.

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They paid no
benefits to speak of.

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And they got their
facility for $1.

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What\'s happening
is that people who

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do not have employment
opportunities in society almost

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have to be caught and
be convicted of a crime

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and go to prison in
order to get a job.

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The main job growth for
people who do not have skills

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is in the prison setting.

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We have a captive
audience, so to speak,

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in that they show
up every day and we

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don\'t have to worry about them
Monday morning not coming in.

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If you ask me how does
it feel to get up and go

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to work every morning, in
a way it feels good because

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in the world, I didn\'t do that.

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Some of the contributing
factors for people

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would probably be
the way they grew up.

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Here, we call it the ghetto.

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Your mom and dad usually
ain\'t at home much

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because they\'re off
working somewhere

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trying to make a living.

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So you\'re basically on your
own growing up in the streets.

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This unit here is
a real laid unit.

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It\'s a minimum security unit.

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Where I come from was a
maximum security unit.

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And there, it\'s harder
to find yourself

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because you get caught up
in the penitentiary games.

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When I first got imprisoned,
I was in trouble a lot.

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Went to seg a few times.

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And then after a while,
you start thinking.

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You sit back in seg,
and you\'re all alone,

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there\'s nobody to talk to you.

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The only people you see is
the person who feeds you,

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and you don\'t see nothing else.

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You don\'t see no daylight.

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And you start thinking,
is this really the way

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I want to live the
rest of my life?

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And that\'s not what I wanted.

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I enjoy coming here.

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I enjoy learning
about computers.

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I enjoy dealing
with circuit boards.

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I enjoy things like
that, because I

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know that they\'re going
to help me when I get out.

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There\'s no vacation.

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There\'s no
hospitalization to pay.

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There\'s no holiday pay to
pay and so forth like that.

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We then split up.

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60% of the money goes
back to the state of Texas

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for basically room and board.

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And it helps offset the cost
of operation of this facility.

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Out of about a check for about
$900, I\'ll get about $200

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that I can have.

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A month.

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A month.

00:16:47.650 --> 00:16:51.440 align:middle line:90%

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We can get people.

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They want to work.

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They\'re good workers.

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And as compared to Alquiladora,
for example, in Mexico, I find

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the workers here
are far superior.

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They\'re better
educated in general.

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And for what it\'s worth,
they all speak English, too.

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So it\'s much easier to
communicate with them.

00:17:08.869 --> 00:17:13.530 align:middle line:90%

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Our prisons compete
with laborers

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who exist in society and other
third world countries that

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really have taken
most of the jobs that

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used to exist in
the United States

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and used to employ the
very people who are filling

00:17:28.060 --> 00:17:31.250 align:middle line:90%
our new prisons today.

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It is good to be able to also
see the social side of it.

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You also feel like you\'re
contributing to helping

00:17:38.220 --> 00:17:39.410 align:middle line:90%
these people\'s lives.

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But we never can forget that
we\'re here to make a profit.

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This is a private business, and
that\'s what we\'re here to do.

00:17:45.490 --> 00:17:49.040 align:middle line:90%

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Not everybody finds themselves.

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Ad for them, I feel
sorry for them.

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I wish that I could help
them change the things that

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cause them to live this
way, because it\'s not

00:18:00.080 --> 00:18:03.209 align:middle line:84%
like we woke up one day and
said, I want to go to prison.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

00:18:06.702 --> 00:18:53.607 align:middle line:90%

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[INAUDIBLE]

00:18:54.107 --> 00:19:06.610 align:middle line:90%

00:19:06.610 --> 00:19:10.760 align:middle line:84%
Many people argue that the
military industrial complex

00:19:10.760 --> 00:19:14.110 align:middle line:84%
is now infecting our
domestic crime policy.

00:19:14.110 --> 00:19:17.030 align:middle line:84%
People talk about the
prison industrial complex

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in the United States.

00:19:18.290 --> 00:19:20.645 align:middle line:84%
And there is a growing
prison industrial complex

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in the United States.

00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:27.570 align:middle line:84%
DeTekion Security Systems
specializing in a perimeter

00:19:27.570 --> 00:19:29.970 align:middle line:90%
intrusion detection systems.

00:19:29.970 --> 00:19:33.330 align:middle line:90%
The first touch is a shock.

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If you are silly enough,
the second touch, you dead.

00:19:36.180 --> 00:19:38.730 align:middle line:90%
[ALARM]

00:19:38.730 --> 00:19:42.780 align:middle line:84%
We have everything from
our standard 452 sting ball

00:19:42.780 --> 00:19:43.475 align:middle line:90%
grenade.

00:19:43.475 --> 00:19:46.100 align:middle line:84%
We have several different types
of impact behavior modification

00:19:46.100 --> 00:19:47.250 align:middle line:90%
devices here.

00:19:47.250 --> 00:19:49.660 align:middle line:84%
And our divergence traction
device, it actually

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ejects seven separate
small sub-emissions

00:19:52.110 --> 00:19:53.020 align:middle line:90%
throughout a room.

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We like to term them
instant attitude adjustment

00:19:55.780 --> 00:19:57.365 align:middle line:84%
and behavior
modification devices.

00:19:57.365 --> 00:20:02.440 align:middle line:90%

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There\'s a whole effort to
help defense contractors

00:20:05.940 --> 00:20:09.710 align:middle line:84%
in the United States recreate
the types of weaponry

00:20:09.710 --> 00:20:11.490 align:middle line:90%
that they created for war.

00:20:11.490 --> 00:20:14.390 align:middle line:84%
They market it to be used
against our own citizens

00:20:14.390 --> 00:20:16.050 align:middle line:84%
in the so-called
war against crime.

00:20:16.050 --> 00:20:22.610 align:middle line:90%

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The air taser is
a nonlethal weapon

00:20:25.080 --> 00:20:27.030 align:middle line:84%
that I can fire up to
21 feet away and use

00:20:27.030 --> 00:20:29.894 align:middle line:84%
it to control inmates in
a correctional situation.

00:20:29.894 --> 00:20:31.560 align:middle line:84%
What it does is it
takes out the command

00:20:31.560 --> 00:20:32.732 align:middle line:90%
and control of the body.

00:20:32.732 --> 00:20:34.440 align:middle line:84%
And what I mean by
that is I can take out

00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:38.570 align:middle line:84%
the electrical signals from
your brain to your muscles.

00:20:38.570 --> 00:20:41.136 align:middle line:84%
We\'ve had a lot of weapons
like clubs and lead bullets,

00:20:41.136 --> 00:20:43.260 align:middle line:84%
really, that we\'ve used
for the last 50, 100 years.

00:20:43.260 --> 00:20:45.970 align:middle line:84%
And we\'re realizing they\'re
causing tremendous injuries.

00:20:45.970 --> 00:20:48.780 align:middle line:84%
And with the nature
of suing people

00:20:48.780 --> 00:20:51.790 align:middle line:84%
and the nature of development
of new weapons and technologies,

00:20:51.790 --> 00:20:54.590 align:middle line:84%
we\'re getting people to migrate
over towards nonlethal weapons.

00:20:54.590 --> 00:20:57.597 align:middle line:84%
So we\'re getting an
explosion for requests

00:20:57.597 --> 00:20:58.430 align:middle line:90%
for this technology.

00:20:58.430 --> 00:20:59.430 align:middle line:90%
People are demanding it.

00:20:59.430 --> 00:21:00.410 align:middle line:90%
They really want it.

00:21:00.410 --> 00:21:02.160 align:middle line:84%
Often, people think
you just have to throw

00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:03.885 align:middle line:90%
a prisoner in a jail cell.

00:21:03.885 --> 00:21:06.970 align:middle line:84%
As long as it\'s got pads on
it, they can\'t hurt themselves.

00:21:06.970 --> 00:21:08.940 align:middle line:84%
But they bang
around on the walls

00:21:08.940 --> 00:21:11.260 align:middle line:90%
and they break their neck.

00:21:11.260 --> 00:21:13.250 align:middle line:90%
So we make a chair.

00:21:13.250 --> 00:21:15.630 align:middle line:84%
He\'s let down easily
into the chair.

00:21:15.630 --> 00:21:17.580 align:middle line:84%
And his arms fit
right in the groove.

00:21:17.580 --> 00:21:19.340 align:middle line:90%
There\'s a whole industry.

00:21:19.340 --> 00:21:21.520 align:middle line:90%
It\'s grown exponentially.

00:21:21.520 --> 00:21:24.910 align:middle line:84%
You would think our sweet little
things wouldn\'t be a problem,

00:21:24.910 --> 00:21:26.860 align:middle line:90%
but they are a problem likewise.

00:21:26.860 --> 00:21:32.100 align:middle line:84%
These little elevators here let
the little child sit their feet

00:21:32.100 --> 00:21:34.200 align:middle line:90%
on them to be more comfortable.

00:21:34.200 --> 00:21:36.920 align:middle line:84%
The unit comes configured
as a dual cell complex.

00:21:36.920 --> 00:21:39.900 align:middle line:84%
So it can actually be
stacked up to eight high.

00:21:39.900 --> 00:21:41.676 align:middle line:84%
The growth in the
corrections populations

00:21:41.676 --> 00:21:43.300 align:middle line:84%
here in the United
States will probably

00:21:43.300 --> 00:21:45.030 align:middle line:90%
double over the next 10 years.

00:21:45.030 --> 00:21:47.185 align:middle line:84%
They\'re building just
about as fast as they can.

00:21:47.185 --> 00:21:50.120 align:middle line:90%

00:21:50.120 --> 00:21:52.870 align:middle line:84%
Our prison construction
program continues

00:21:52.870 --> 00:21:55.390 align:middle line:84%
to operate at a very
accelerated pace.

00:21:55.390 --> 00:21:59.980 align:middle line:84%
It has not slowed down even
though crime has dropped.

00:21:59.980 --> 00:22:04.200 align:middle line:84%
The private prison industry
is based on prisoners.

00:22:04.200 --> 00:22:06.590 align:middle line:84%
It\'s continued in
growing profits as based

00:22:06.590 --> 00:22:09.140 align:middle line:90%
on prison growth.

00:22:09.140 --> 00:22:11.950 align:middle line:84%
In order to do this, we
need a sufficient amount

00:22:11.950 --> 00:22:13.460 align:middle line:90%
of raw material.

00:22:13.460 --> 00:22:15.820 align:middle line:84%
What\'s frightening
is that in this case,

00:22:15.820 --> 00:22:19.597 align:middle line:90%
the raw material is people.

00:22:19.597 --> 00:22:23.589 align:middle line:90%
[MUSIC PLAYING]

00:22:23.589 --> 00:22:51.380 align:middle line:90%

00:22:51.380 --> 00:22:51.970 align:middle line:90%
Lifeline.

00:22:51.970 --> 00:22:56.290 align:middle line:84%
Therapeutic,
community, philosophy.

00:22:56.290 --> 00:22:59.650 align:middle line:84%
We are citizens that
strive towards our goal.

00:22:59.650 --> 00:23:03.010 align:middle line:84%
Forever we subscribe
to a more sensible way

00:23:03.010 --> 00:23:07.262 align:middle line:84%
of living free from the
powers of alcohol and drugs.

00:23:07.262 --> 00:23:08.803 align:middle line:84%
It\'s all about
behavior modification.

00:23:08.803 --> 00:23:11.320 align:middle line:90%

00:23:11.320 --> 00:23:13.290 align:middle line:84%
The whole premise
behind Lifeline

00:23:13.290 --> 00:23:14.930 align:middle line:84%
is when you\'re on
a job out there,

00:23:14.930 --> 00:23:16.610 align:middle line:84%
you\'re going to
have logs to sign.

00:23:16.610 --> 00:23:19.584 align:middle line:84%
You\'re going to have
responsibility to wear.

00:23:19.584 --> 00:23:21.500 align:middle line:84%
You\'re going to have
rules you have to follow.

00:23:21.500 --> 00:23:23.010 align:middle line:84%
We\'re all in here
because evidently,

00:23:23.010 --> 00:23:25.600 align:middle line:84%
we weren\'t very good at
following those rules

00:23:25.600 --> 00:23:27.160 align:middle line:90%
that society placed upon us.

00:23:27.160 --> 00:23:29.690 align:middle line:84%
So by doing little
things like this in here,

00:23:29.690 --> 00:23:32.432 align:middle line:84%
it\'s supposed to help us to
accept bigger things when

00:23:32.432 --> 00:23:33.565 align:middle line:90%
we get out of here.

00:23:33.565 --> 00:23:34.775 align:middle line:90%
Wha, wha, wha.

00:23:34.775 --> 00:23:36.670 align:middle line:84%
Please help me stop
whining in the TC.

00:23:36.670 --> 00:23:38.509 align:middle line:90%
We going to help you.

00:23:38.509 --> 00:23:41.890 align:middle line:90%
[INTERPOSING VOICES]

00:23:41.890 --> 00:23:43.822 align:middle line:90%

00:23:43.822 --> 00:23:45.271 align:middle line:90%
We going to help you.

00:23:45.271 --> 00:23:48.570 align:middle line:84%
We going to help you
stop crying, big boy.

00:23:48.570 --> 00:23:51.962 align:middle line:84%
Cigarettes are banned in
this institution, at CCA.

00:23:51.962 --> 00:23:53.920 align:middle line:84%
That doesn\'t mean there
aren\'t cigarettes here.

00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:56.040 align:middle line:84%
And if you\'re
caught smoking, you

00:23:56.040 --> 00:23:57.470 align:middle line:90%
are given this big cigarette.

00:23:57.470 --> 00:24:02.420 align:middle line:84%
And once an hour on the hour,
you are going to holler.

00:24:02.420 --> 00:24:03.450 align:middle line:90%
Attention, family.

00:24:03.450 --> 00:24:05.230 align:middle line:90%
My name is Jay Horn.

00:24:05.230 --> 00:24:07.190 align:middle line:84%
Please help me to quit
smoking in the TC.

00:24:07.190 --> 00:24:08.666 align:middle line:90%
We going to help you.

00:24:08.666 --> 00:24:11.618 align:middle line:90%
[INTERPOSING VOICES]

00:24:11.618 --> 00:24:13.094 align:middle line:90%

00:24:13.094 --> 00:24:14.570 align:middle line:90%
We going to really help you.

00:24:14.570 --> 00:24:16.046 align:middle line:90%
You need a whole bunch of help.

00:24:16.046 --> 00:24:16.921 align:middle line:90%
We going to help you.

00:24:16.921 --> 00:24:19.090 align:middle line:84%
I\'m just a grown man doing
this stuff, you know.

00:24:19.090 --> 00:24:20.895 align:middle line:90%
It\'s real embarrassing at first.

00:24:20.895 --> 00:24:21.510 align:middle line:90%
Yeah.

00:24:21.510 --> 00:24:23.860 align:middle line:84%
That\'s embarrassing,
almost as much

00:24:23.860 --> 00:24:27.262 align:middle line:84%
as when another the inmate tells
you to go to a quiet chair,

00:24:27.262 --> 00:24:30.190 align:middle line:84%
you have to go up there and
sit in a chair in the corner

00:24:30.190 --> 00:24:33.980 align:middle line:84%
until they get ready
for you to come out.

00:24:33.980 --> 00:24:37.890 align:middle line:84%
Just stripping your
manhood from you.

00:24:37.890 --> 00:24:39.800 align:middle line:90%
You a child.

00:24:39.800 --> 00:24:42.500 align:middle line:90%
[INAUDIBLE]

00:24:42.500 --> 00:24:43.400 align:middle line:90%

00:24:43.400 --> 00:24:49.680 align:middle line:84%
Almost 70% of people who
are presently incarcerated

00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:53.020 align:middle line:90%
are people of color.

00:24:53.020 --> 00:24:57.290 align:middle line:84%
There\'s a kind of informal
affirmative action program that

00:24:57.290 --> 00:25:02.210 align:middle line:84%
leads five times as many
black men into prison

00:25:02.210 --> 00:25:06.960 align:middle line:84%
as into colleges
and universities.

00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:09.560 align:middle line:84%
You\'re seeing a huge increase
in the percentage of people who

00:25:09.560 --> 00:25:11.770 align:middle line:90%
are locked up for drug crimes.

00:25:11.770 --> 00:25:13.860 align:middle line:84%
We\'re not talking
about drug kingpins,

00:25:13.860 --> 00:25:15.360 align:middle line:84%
the sort of people
who make millions

00:25:15.360 --> 00:25:17.074 align:middle line:90%
of dollars importing drugs.

00:25:17.074 --> 00:25:18.490 align:middle line:84%
We\'re talking about
people who get

00:25:18.490 --> 00:25:20.220 align:middle line:84%
caught up at a very
low level and end up

00:25:20.220 --> 00:25:22.615 align:middle line:84%
with very, very long prison
sentences as a result.

00:25:22.615 --> 00:25:24.107 align:middle line:90%

00:25:24.107 --> 00:25:26.690 align:middle line:84%
If you send an addict to prison,
all you\'re teaching an addict

00:25:26.690 --> 00:25:31.294 align:middle line:90%
is better ways to commit crimes.

00:25:31.294 --> 00:25:33.210 align:middle line:84%
You\'re putting them in
a negative environment,

00:25:33.210 --> 00:25:37.020 align:middle line:84%
when I think that
treatment is the answer.

00:25:37.020 --> 00:25:39.900 align:middle line:84%
I think that you deal
with the problem.

00:25:39.900 --> 00:25:41.080 align:middle line:90%
The problem is addiction.

00:25:41.080 --> 00:25:42.680 align:middle line:90%
Addiction is a disease.

00:25:42.680 --> 00:25:45.430 align:middle line:84%
You don\'t treat a disease
by putting people in prison.

00:25:45.430 --> 00:25:47.740 align:middle line:84%
You don\'t treat cancer by
putting people in prison.

00:25:47.740 --> 00:25:49.030 align:middle line:90%
It\'s a disease.

00:25:49.030 --> 00:25:51.740 align:middle line:84%
You give them
treatment and therapy.

00:25:51.740 --> 00:25:54.150 align:middle line:84%
I mean, you could have treatment
centers on the outside.

00:25:54.150 --> 00:25:56.940 align:middle line:84%
If you\'re lucky enough to
be able to afford health

00:25:56.940 --> 00:25:59.900 align:middle line:90%
care in this country.

00:25:59.900 --> 00:26:01.650 align:middle line:84%
If you have health
care, treatment centers

00:26:01.650 --> 00:26:03.460 align:middle line:90%
will accept you.

00:26:03.460 --> 00:26:05.460 align:middle line:84%
But then now, the
system is cut down

00:26:05.460 --> 00:26:08.535 align:middle line:84%
to where they only accept
you for a few days to detox.

00:26:08.535 --> 00:26:10.220 align:middle line:90%
It\'s a problem right now.

00:26:10.220 --> 00:26:11.640 align:middle line:90%
And it\'s a real problem.

00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:14.360 align:middle line:84%
That\'s why you have so
many addicts in here,

00:26:14.360 --> 00:26:16.805 align:middle line:84%
because they\'re not getting
the proper treatment

00:26:16.805 --> 00:26:18.400 align:middle line:90%
on the streets.

00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:22.240 align:middle line:84%
How many of us will presume
to announce well, I\'m sober

00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:24.010 align:middle line:90%
and I\'m happy.

00:26:24.010 --> 00:26:26.670 align:middle line:84%
We have to grow or
else we deteriorate.

00:26:26.670 --> 00:26:28.100 align:middle line:90%
Change, we must.

00:26:28.100 --> 00:26:29.660 align:middle line:90%
We can\'t stand still.

00:26:29.660 --> 00:26:34.124 align:middle line:84%
Today I will remember,
living is changing.

00:26:34.124 --> 00:26:38.108 align:middle line:90%
[MUSIC PLAYING]

00:26:38.108 --> 00:27:14.510 align:middle line:90%

00:27:14.510 --> 00:27:17.310 align:middle line:84%
Today, working in
privatization, things

00:27:17.310 --> 00:27:20.250 align:middle line:84%
have changed dramatically
because the taxpayers,

00:27:20.250 --> 00:27:22.000 align:middle line:84%
basically they\'re
our bosses and we

00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:26.490 align:middle line:84%
want to give them the
best bang for their buck.

00:27:26.490 --> 00:27:29.016 align:middle line:84%
The males go to school and
participate in work programs

00:27:29.016 --> 00:27:29.640 align:middle line:90%
during the day.

00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:32.993 align:middle line:84%
And at night, the
female population

00:27:32.993 --> 00:27:35.539 align:middle line:84%
are doing the education programs
and they\'re actually doing

00:27:35.539 --> 00:27:37.300 align:middle line:90%
the work details at night.

00:27:37.300 --> 00:27:41.790 align:middle line:84%
So we\'re running basically
24 hours around the clock.

00:27:41.790 --> 00:27:43.502 align:middle line:90%
Sisters, who are we?

00:27:43.502 --> 00:27:47.505 align:middle line:84%
We are sisters with a
dysfunctional illness.

00:27:47.505 --> 00:27:51.006 align:middle line:84%
We\'ve been given a chance to
change our lives from drugs

00:27:51.006 --> 00:27:51.948 align:middle line:90%
and alcohol.

00:27:51.948 --> 00:27:56.200 align:middle line:90%
Acceptance is a way of life.

00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:57.150 align:middle line:90%
My name\'s Toni Grinco.

00:27:57.150 --> 00:28:00.560 align:middle line:84%
And I\'m in here for a parole
violation for robbery.

00:28:00.560 --> 00:28:02.470 align:middle line:90%
I\'m nine months pregnant.

00:28:02.470 --> 00:28:07.070 align:middle line:84%
Well, I myself, I have been
practicing in prostitution

00:28:07.070 --> 00:28:09.320 align:middle line:90%
since I was 15 years old.

00:28:09.320 --> 00:28:13.610 align:middle line:84%
And basically, once you get
caught up in that kind of life,

00:28:13.610 --> 00:28:15.290 align:middle line:90%
it\'s hard to change.

00:28:15.290 --> 00:28:19.950 align:middle line:84%
And a lot of times,
women in my position

00:28:19.950 --> 00:28:24.040 align:middle line:84%
don\'t have the money to
go into a treatment, where

00:28:24.040 --> 00:28:26.010 align:middle line:90%
this treatment is free.

00:28:26.010 --> 00:28:27.340 align:middle line:90%
They\'ve placed you in jail.

00:28:27.340 --> 00:28:28.906 align:middle line:90%
You\'re going to be here anyway.

00:28:28.906 --> 00:28:30.780 align:middle line:84%
You may as well try to
do something positive.

00:28:30.780 --> 00:28:33.760 align:middle line:84%
My name is Catherine\'s Beech,
and I\'ve been in and out

00:28:33.760 --> 00:28:35.820 align:middle line:90%
of this institution four times.

00:28:35.820 --> 00:28:37.880 align:middle line:84%
And this the first time
I\'ve ever really tried

00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:40.440 align:middle line:84%
to find the right
and necessary tools

00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:43.350 align:middle line:84%
to use to take back with me out
on the streets for my recovery.

00:28:43.350 --> 00:28:46.590 align:middle line:84%
I never wanted to join this
program up until this time.

00:28:46.590 --> 00:28:48.450 align:middle line:84%
For the first time,
I\'m able to really deal

00:28:48.450 --> 00:28:51.810 align:middle line:84%
with my own issues, face
issues within myself

00:28:51.810 --> 00:28:53.050 align:middle line:90%
and not be afraid.

00:28:53.050 --> 00:28:54.660 align:middle line:84%
This program teaches
you structure.

00:28:54.660 --> 00:28:56.730 align:middle line:90%
It gives you tools to use.

00:28:56.730 --> 00:28:58.720 align:middle line:84%
It teaches a woman how
to get up and speak

00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:00.060 align:middle line:90%
in front of other people.

00:29:00.060 --> 00:29:03.510 align:middle line:84%
There are so many different
things that they touch on.

00:29:03.510 --> 00:29:06.600 align:middle line:84%
They say it\'s 120
days, but in 120 days,

00:29:06.600 --> 00:29:08.660 align:middle line:90%
they touch on every single area.

00:29:08.660 --> 00:29:11.090 align:middle line:84%
What did you keep
coming back for?

00:29:11.090 --> 00:29:11.980 align:middle line:90%
Drugs.

00:29:11.980 --> 00:29:13.290 align:middle line:90%
Violation of parole.

00:29:13.290 --> 00:29:16.440 align:middle line:90%
Still want to do things my way.

00:29:16.440 --> 00:29:20.710 align:middle line:84%
We are sisters of chance and
have been recycled and reborn.

00:29:20.710 --> 00:29:23.750 align:middle line:84%
We leave a message for the
next group that comes along.

00:29:23.750 --> 00:29:26.600 align:middle line:90%
Take our advice and carry it on.

00:29:26.600 --> 00:29:28.650 align:middle line:90%
Change is a new beginning.

00:29:28.650 --> 00:29:30.090 align:middle line:90%
A group [INAUDIBLE].

00:29:30.090 --> 00:29:31.050 align:middle line:90%
Take change.

00:29:31.050 --> 00:29:34.930 align:middle line:90%

00:29:34.930 --> 00:29:37.630 align:middle line:84%
This is a sign you wear when
you got a big mouth, when

00:29:37.630 --> 00:29:38.640 align:middle line:90%
you talk too much.

00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:42.150 align:middle line:84%
So I\'ve got a big mouth
and I can\'t talk at all.

00:29:42.150 --> 00:29:45.580 align:middle line:84%
This is a sign you have
to wear when you oversleep

00:29:45.580 --> 00:29:48.455 align:middle line:84%
and you have to
crow every morning.

00:29:48.455 --> 00:29:50.930 align:middle line:90%
[ROOSTER CROW]

00:29:50.930 --> 00:29:53.405 align:middle line:90%
[LAUGHTER]

00:29:53.405 --> 00:29:57.860 align:middle line:90%

00:29:57.860 --> 00:30:01.254 align:middle line:90%
[MUSIC PLAYING]

00:30:01.254 --> 00:30:32.068 align:middle line:90%

00:30:32.068 --> 00:30:36.170 align:middle line:84%
Private prisons are
mostly prisons of profit.

00:30:36.170 --> 00:30:40.522 align:middle line:84%
A lot of times, we don\'t get our
issues of paper like we need,

00:30:40.522 --> 00:30:42.902 align:middle line:84%
like toilet paper and
sanitary napkins and things

00:30:42.902 --> 00:30:44.810 align:middle line:90%
of this nature.

00:30:44.810 --> 00:30:47.162 align:middle line:84%
And sometimes, if a
woman comes in here

00:30:47.162 --> 00:30:49.120 align:middle line:84%
and is supposed to be
sent to the penitentiary,

00:30:49.120 --> 00:30:52.085 align:middle line:84%
well, her papers may get lost
or anything could happen, just

00:30:52.085 --> 00:30:53.460 align:middle line:84%
to hold her over
because they get

00:30:53.460 --> 00:30:56.930 align:middle line:84%
paid every day each
individual is in here.

00:30:56.930 --> 00:30:58.850 align:middle line:90%
You want to add to it, Cat?

00:30:58.850 --> 00:31:01.740 align:middle line:84%
You not going to get the medical
attention that you really need.

00:31:01.740 --> 00:31:04.536 align:middle line:84%
This knee popped out of place,
and told it was a sprain.

00:31:04.536 --> 00:31:06.360 align:middle line:84%
Well, a year later,
come to find out

00:31:06.360 --> 00:31:08.276 align:middle line:84%
my whole ligaments, the
cartilage, all of that

00:31:08.276 --> 00:31:10.150 align:middle line:84%
was torn, and nothing
was done here.

00:31:10.150 --> 00:31:12.010 align:middle line:84%
I had to wait to go
to the women\'s prison

00:31:12.010 --> 00:31:15.718 align:middle line:84%
to find out what was
really wrong with my knee.

00:31:15.718 --> 00:31:18.301 align:middle line:84%
So they\'ll give you Tylenol and
you tell you, oh, everything\'s

00:31:18.301 --> 00:31:21.175 align:middle line:84%
OK, instead of giving
you the correct treatment

00:31:21.175 --> 00:31:24.980 align:middle line:84%
that you really need, and which
you can find in a state prison.

00:31:24.980 --> 00:31:27.675 align:middle line:84%
You get the quality
treatment that you need.

00:31:27.675 --> 00:31:28.665 align:middle line:90%
This is B unit.

00:31:28.665 --> 00:31:32.282 align:middle line:84%
And if you had gone
to D unit or E unit,

00:31:32.282 --> 00:31:37.595 align:middle line:84%
then you would have seen
a dirty, filthy, unkempt,

00:31:37.595 --> 00:31:42.666 align:middle line:84%
unclean, bug-infested,
rat-infested type

00:31:42.666 --> 00:31:44.380 align:middle line:90%
of environment.

00:31:44.380 --> 00:31:47.500 align:middle line:84%
I know I couldn\'t be
down that hallway.

00:31:47.500 --> 00:31:48.000 align:middle line:90%
Get me.

00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:50.494 align:middle line:84%
I got to come away
from down there.

00:31:50.494 --> 00:31:54.430 align:middle line:90%
[MUSIC PLAYING]

00:31:54.430 --> 00:31:59.834 align:middle line:90%

00:31:59.834 --> 00:32:00.334 align:middle line:90%
Lock down.

00:32:00.334 --> 00:32:01.794 align:middle line:90%
Everybody on your bunks.

00:32:01.794 --> 00:32:02.794 align:middle line:90%
Everybody on your bunks.

00:32:02.794 --> 00:32:03.294 align:middle line:90%
Lock down.

00:32:03.294 --> 00:32:06.238 align:middle line:90%

00:32:06.238 --> 00:32:09.190 align:middle line:90%
Come on, ladies.

00:32:09.190 --> 00:32:10.666 align:middle line:90%
Who in here?

00:32:10.666 --> 00:32:13.618 align:middle line:90%
Anybody on this side over here?

00:32:13.618 --> 00:32:16.800 align:middle line:84%
You have to have a sense of
humor in this place, you know.

00:32:16.800 --> 00:32:19.850 align:middle line:84%
it\'s us women who make
each other\'s days,

00:32:19.850 --> 00:32:22.624 align:middle line:84%
make each other laugh to get
along good in this place,

00:32:22.624 --> 00:32:23.665 align:middle line:90%
you know what I\'m saying?

00:32:23.665 --> 00:32:24.623 align:middle line:90%
Playing games at night.

00:32:24.623 --> 00:32:26.780 align:middle line:90%
As far as the guards.

00:32:26.780 --> 00:32:29.020 align:middle line:84%
In here, we just seem
like we just balled up.

00:32:29.020 --> 00:32:31.630 align:middle line:84%
It seem like we just so
close that we can turn

00:32:31.630 --> 00:32:33.915 align:middle line:90%
lest we bumping into somebody.

00:32:33.915 --> 00:32:35.890 align:middle line:84%
It just feels so tight
in here, you know.

00:32:35.890 --> 00:32:37.840 align:middle line:90%
No space and room.

00:32:37.840 --> 00:32:38.785 align:middle line:90%
And it\'s too crowded.

00:32:38.785 --> 00:32:41.540 align:middle line:84%
You got women sleeping around on
the floor, in the storage room,

00:32:41.540 --> 00:32:43.350 align:middle line:84%
in the closet, in
the [? boats. ?]

00:32:43.350 --> 00:32:48.390 align:middle line:90%

00:32:48.390 --> 00:32:51.640 align:middle line:84%
The idea that you would contract
out to the lowest bidder

00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:54.650 align:middle line:84%
the right to punish
your own citizens

00:32:54.650 --> 00:32:57.350 align:middle line:84%
creates all sorts of
incentives that have nothing

00:32:57.350 --> 00:32:58.910 align:middle line:90%
to do with public safety.

00:32:58.910 --> 00:33:02.640 align:middle line:84%
I think it\'s going to create
a force in this country that

00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:06.360 align:middle line:84%
will always push for the
growth of the prison system

00:33:06.360 --> 00:33:09.110 align:middle line:84%
regardless of whether it is
needed to actually protect

00:33:09.110 --> 00:33:11.190 align:middle line:90%
people from crime.

00:33:11.190 --> 00:33:13.898 align:middle line:84%
What does the crystal
ball say for the future?

00:33:13.898 --> 00:33:17.520 align:middle line:84%
Well, I think society\'s headed
to a little tougher, more

00:33:17.520 --> 00:33:19.364 align:middle line:84%
sterile society, where
people are put away

00:33:19.364 --> 00:33:21.699 align:middle line:90%
for a longer period of time.

00:33:21.699 --> 00:33:26.080 align:middle line:84%
And i-technology, where you
have less human influences.

00:33:26.080 --> 00:33:30.000 align:middle line:84%
You know, the less human contact
we have with the inmates,

00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:32.950 align:middle line:84%
the better, the more
safer it is for the people

00:33:32.950 --> 00:33:35.338 align:middle line:90%
who work within the industry.

00:33:35.338 --> 00:33:38.750 align:middle line:84%
I invented the BOSS, which
is the body orifice security

00:33:38.750 --> 00:33:39.640 align:middle line:90%
scanner.

00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:41.760 align:middle line:84%
It was designed with the
intention of picking up

00:33:41.760 --> 00:33:45.360 align:middle line:84%
handcuff keys and single
edge razor blades that

00:33:45.360 --> 00:33:47.730 align:middle line:84%
are hidden in body
cavities for inmates

00:33:47.730 --> 00:33:49.500 align:middle line:90%
in correctional facilities.

00:33:49.500 --> 00:33:51.250 align:middle line:90%
It does the oral nasal cavity.

00:33:51.250 --> 00:33:53.716 align:middle line:90%
If I take a handcuff key.

00:33:53.716 --> 00:33:56.006 align:middle line:90%
[BEEPING]

00:33:56.006 --> 00:33:56.930 align:middle line:90%

00:33:56.930 --> 00:34:01.400 align:middle line:84%
The inmates simply
sits down in the chair.

00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:05.710 align:middle line:84%
The arms position you directly
over the active field,

00:34:05.710 --> 00:34:08.340 align:middle line:84%
and it puts the anal
vaginal cavity directly

00:34:08.340 --> 00:34:11.560 align:middle line:90%
over the coils of wire.

00:34:11.560 --> 00:34:16.489 align:middle line:84%
A huge market for us is
Russia, China, South America.

00:34:16.489 --> 00:34:18.760 align:middle line:90%
Australia is a wonderful market.

00:34:18.760 --> 00:34:21.420 align:middle line:84%
Recently, we developed
a new machine.

00:34:21.420 --> 00:34:24.920 align:middle line:84%
And it is actually designed
to do penile searches.

00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:28.431 align:middle line:84%
It is called the
PC, or pecker check.

00:34:28.431 --> 00:34:31.868 align:middle line:90%
[MUSIC PLAYING]

00:34:31.868 --> 00:34:42.030 align:middle line:90%

00:34:42.030 --> 00:34:46.940 align:middle line:84%
The first thing we emphasize
is the psychological deterrent,

00:34:46.940 --> 00:34:50.530 align:middle line:84%
that inmates will
see it installed

00:34:50.530 --> 00:34:52.530 align:middle line:90%
and not want to encounter it.

00:34:52.530 --> 00:34:55.040 align:middle line:84%
The most effective
design that we have is

00:34:55.040 --> 00:34:56.989 align:middle line:90%
called detainer hook barb.

00:34:56.989 --> 00:35:00.860 align:middle line:84%
It well pierce from the
outside, and also on removal, it

00:35:00.860 --> 00:35:03.340 align:middle line:84%
will snag the skin
or the clothing.

00:35:03.340 --> 00:35:05.060 align:middle line:84%
We\'ve been told about
an individual who

00:35:05.060 --> 00:35:09.090 align:middle line:84%
fell into the product and was
found attached to the wire.

00:35:09.090 --> 00:35:11.330 align:middle line:84%
He required 600
stitches in order

00:35:11.330 --> 00:35:14.002 align:middle line:84%
to close the wounds
from the wire.

00:35:14.002 --> 00:35:17.930 align:middle line:90%
[MUSIC PLAYING]

00:35:17.930 --> 00:35:28.920 align:middle line:90%

00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:32.300 align:middle line:84%
Because prisoners have
become a source of profit,

00:35:32.300 --> 00:35:34.470 align:middle line:90%
they become a commodity.

00:35:34.470 --> 00:35:38.332 align:middle line:84%
You see an enormous movement of
prisoners across state lines.

00:35:38.332 --> 00:35:41.525 align:middle line:90%

00:35:41.525 --> 00:35:44.280 align:middle line:90%
[MUSIC PLAYING]

00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:55.245 align:middle line:90%

00:35:55.245 --> 00:35:57.870 align:middle line:84%
When I first came here, I was in
the first group that came here

00:35:57.870 --> 00:36:01.080 align:middle line:90%
from Alaska in January of 1995.

00:36:01.080 --> 00:36:04.460 align:middle line:84%
There was approximately
under 200 of us.

00:36:04.460 --> 00:36:09.084 align:middle line:84%
Since then, the population
has climbed to 800.

00:36:09.084 --> 00:36:11.000 align:middle line:84%
That\'s just Alaskan
inmates, and they\'re still

00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:12.700 align:middle line:84%
claiming that at
home, the prisons are

00:36:12.700 --> 00:36:15.850 align:middle line:90%
full, or in fact, overcrowding.

00:36:15.850 --> 00:36:19.000 align:middle line:84%
So this has been
their safety valve.

00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:21.720 align:middle line:84%
When it gets to an
epidemic proportion

00:36:21.720 --> 00:36:23.287 align:middle line:84%
when they got to
get rid of people,

00:36:23.287 --> 00:36:25.620 align:middle line:84%
they\'re putting them on planes,
bussing them to Arizona.

00:36:25.620 --> 00:36:28.943 align:middle line:84%
This is the biggest prison
in Alaska, believe it or not.

00:36:28.943 --> 00:36:32.807 align:middle line:90%
[MUSIC PLAYING]

00:36:32.807 --> 00:36:36.680 align:middle line:90%

00:36:36.680 --> 00:36:40.710 align:middle line:84%
This is probably one of
the most unique facilities

00:36:40.710 --> 00:36:43.490 align:middle line:84%
not only have I worked
in, but I know about.

00:36:43.490 --> 00:36:49.360 align:middle line:84%
It started originally
as a 520 odd bed prison.

00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:53.830 align:middle line:90%
We\'re now up to 2,500 to 2,600.

00:36:53.830 --> 00:36:55.410 align:middle line:90%
I don\'t like empty beds.

00:36:55.410 --> 00:36:56.670 align:middle line:90%
We\'re a private business.

00:36:56.670 --> 00:36:58.800 align:middle line:84%
And we\'re about doing
corrections right.

00:36:58.800 --> 00:37:02.450 align:middle line:84%
Security, programming, good
corrections is good correction,

00:37:02.450 --> 00:37:04.120 align:middle line:90%
and that\'s what we\'re about.

00:37:04.120 --> 00:37:06.910 align:middle line:84%
And I\'ve never had a
problem filling the beds.

00:37:06.910 --> 00:37:10.244 align:middle line:84%
In fact, I\'ve sometimes sold
them over too many times.

00:37:10.244 --> 00:37:16.890 align:middle line:90%

00:37:16.890 --> 00:37:19.740 align:middle line:84%
Well, we were in a minimum
facility in Oregon.

00:37:19.740 --> 00:37:22.020 align:middle line:84%
Our families could come
see us every weekend.

00:37:22.020 --> 00:37:23.750 align:middle line:84%
And one day, they
just said, roll up.

00:37:23.750 --> 00:37:24.250 align:middle line:90%
Yeah.

00:37:24.250 --> 00:37:24.380 align:middle line:90%
No explanation.

00:37:24.380 --> 00:37:25.330 align:middle line:90%
You\'re leaving.

00:37:25.330 --> 00:37:26.360 align:middle line:90%
No explanation.

00:37:26.360 --> 00:37:27.790 align:middle line:90%
No forewarning.

00:37:27.790 --> 00:37:29.710 align:middle line:90%
Roll up, you\'re leaving.

00:37:29.710 --> 00:37:31.179 align:middle line:90%
And we were brought to here.

00:37:31.179 --> 00:37:32.720 align:middle line:84%
We were in a minimum
security prison,

00:37:32.720 --> 00:37:35.982 align:middle line:84%
and now we\'re in like,
maximum security situation.

00:37:35.982 --> 00:37:36.940 align:middle line:90%
It\'s a lot more severe.

00:37:36.940 --> 00:37:43.310 align:middle line:90%

00:37:43.310 --> 00:37:46.410 align:middle line:84%
Well, when I first came down
here four and a half years ago,

00:37:46.410 --> 00:37:48.497 align:middle line:90%
I told them I was an artist.

00:37:48.497 --> 00:37:51.872 align:middle line:84%
And they asked me to
prove myself, and I did.

00:37:51.872 --> 00:37:53.913 align:middle line:84%
And they\'ve been buying
paints for me ever since,

00:37:53.913 --> 00:37:54.871 align:middle line:90%
and I\'ve been painting.

00:37:54.871 --> 00:37:59.470 align:middle line:84%
I\'ve been painting a
lot of Alaskan stuff,

00:37:59.470 --> 00:38:01.190 align:middle line:90%
because I miss Alaska.

00:38:01.190 --> 00:38:04.030 align:middle line:84%
That\'s all I know
how to do is paint.

00:38:04.030 --> 00:38:05.970 align:middle line:90%
Paint and get in trouble.

00:38:05.970 --> 00:38:09.022 align:middle line:84%
The lesser of the two
is painting, so I paint.

00:38:09.022 --> 00:38:11.755 align:middle line:84%
And if you didn\'t have your
painting, what do you think

00:38:11.755 --> 00:38:13.796 align:middle line:90%
would happen to you?

00:38:13.796 --> 00:38:15.930 align:middle line:90%
I would probably be in the hole.

00:38:15.930 --> 00:38:18.694 align:middle line:84%
I would probably be in fights,
and I would be locked up.

00:38:18.694 --> 00:38:21.470 align:middle line:90%

00:38:21.470 --> 00:38:24.910 align:middle line:84%
Because I don\'t know how
to get along with people.

00:38:24.910 --> 00:38:27.240 align:middle line:84%
My painting is a way
to express myself.

00:38:27.240 --> 00:38:28.990 align:middle line:84%
A state prison back
in Alaska would not

00:38:28.990 --> 00:38:31.450 align:middle line:84%
let me paint like
this on the walls.

00:38:31.450 --> 00:38:32.945 align:middle line:90%
But I\'d still rather go back.

00:38:32.945 --> 00:38:34.570 align:middle line:84%
I\'ll take a chance
of going in the hole

00:38:34.570 --> 00:38:38.070 align:middle line:84%
and being in Alaska
than being here.

00:38:38.070 --> 00:38:40.290 align:middle line:84%
Even though painting
means that much to you?

00:38:40.290 --> 00:38:42.039 align:middle line:84%
Yes, even though
painting means that much.

00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:45.880 align:middle line:84%
My son and my family means
more to me than this artwork

00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:46.570 align:middle line:90%
that I create.

00:38:46.570 --> 00:38:47.340 align:middle line:90%
It really does.

00:38:47.340 --> 00:38:55.190 align:middle line:90%

00:38:55.190 --> 00:38:59.160 align:middle line:84%
I think in order for any
person in a position like this

00:38:59.160 --> 00:39:03.117 align:middle line:84%
that family contact, good
family contact, is essential.

00:39:03.117 --> 00:39:04.575 align:middle line:84%
I mean, that keeps
your spirits up.

00:39:04.575 --> 00:39:06.495 align:middle line:90%
It keeps you motivated.

00:39:06.495 --> 00:39:08.120 align:middle line:84%
You know, I mean,
because of course you

00:39:08.120 --> 00:39:09.540 align:middle line:90%
want to go see your family.

00:39:09.540 --> 00:39:14.000 align:middle line:84%
It\'s been 4 and a half years
since I\'ve seen my family.

00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:16.830 align:middle line:84%
Most of all my immediate
family live in Alaska.

00:39:16.830 --> 00:39:20.510 align:middle line:84%
And to go from Alaska to
Arizona is quite expensive.

00:39:20.510 --> 00:39:23.600 align:middle line:90%

00:39:23.600 --> 00:39:25.350 align:middle line:90%
My mom is 57.

00:39:25.350 --> 00:39:29.560 align:middle line:84%
And it\'s been quite a few
years since I seen her.

00:39:29.560 --> 00:39:32.076 align:middle line:84%
One of my concerns
was that she\'s not

00:39:32.076 --> 00:39:33.200 align:middle line:90%
like in the best of health.

00:39:33.200 --> 00:39:35.620 align:middle line:84%
And I know it would hurt
me real bad if something

00:39:35.620 --> 00:39:37.750 align:middle line:90%
happened to her, you know.

00:39:37.750 --> 00:39:40.280 align:middle line:84%
I didn\'t get to see her
again, that would be just

00:39:40.280 --> 00:39:43.130 align:middle line:90%
like devastating, obviously.

00:39:43.130 --> 00:39:46.060 align:middle line:84%
Because I have a real, real
close relationship with my mom.

00:39:46.060 --> 00:39:55.660 align:middle line:90%

00:39:55.660 --> 00:39:57.980 align:middle line:84%
One of the interesting
problems that has arisen

00:39:57.980 --> 00:39:59.410 align:middle line:90%
is one of accountability.

00:39:59.410 --> 00:40:00.945 align:middle line:84%
That is, if someone
commits a crime,

00:40:00.945 --> 00:40:02.570 align:middle line:84%
they\'re arrested by
the police, they\'re

00:40:02.570 --> 00:40:04.860 align:middle line:90%
sentenced by a state court.

00:40:04.860 --> 00:40:07.930 align:middle line:84%
And then if they\'re actually
assigned to a private prison,

00:40:07.930 --> 00:40:10.390 align:middle line:84%
really who is ultimately
accountable for that inmate?

00:40:10.390 --> 00:40:14.370 align:middle line:84%
Is it the state, or is it
the private prison company?

00:40:14.370 --> 00:40:15.820 align:middle line:90%
We have laws in this country.

00:40:15.820 --> 00:40:18.950 align:middle line:84%
We have a Constitution in
this country that gives people

00:40:18.950 --> 00:40:20.810 align:middle line:90%
rights, including prisoners.

00:40:20.810 --> 00:40:24.140 align:middle line:84%
And in many instances,
inmates have had difficulty

00:40:24.140 --> 00:40:27.030 align:middle line:84%
exercising their legal
and constitutional rights

00:40:27.030 --> 00:40:30.080 align:middle line:90%
in a private prison setting.

00:40:30.080 --> 00:40:31.720 align:middle line:84%
As in any population,
you\'re going

00:40:31.720 --> 00:40:34.300 align:middle line:90%
to have unruly individuals.

00:40:34.300 --> 00:40:36.906 align:middle line:84%
What we do is we have certain
areas where you isolate them

00:40:36.906 --> 00:40:38.280 align:middle line:84%
away from the
general population.

00:40:38.280 --> 00:40:40.760 align:middle line:90%
We call that segregation.

00:40:40.760 --> 00:40:45.140 align:middle line:84%
A person in segregation
spends 23 hours out

00:40:45.140 --> 00:40:47.490 align:middle line:90%
of 24 inside a cell.

00:40:47.490 --> 00:40:51.820 align:middle line:90%
It\'s called isolate and control.

00:40:51.820 --> 00:40:54.020 align:middle line:90%
The company has enormous power.

00:40:54.020 --> 00:40:56.580 align:middle line:84%
It takes on traditionally
state functions.

00:40:56.580 --> 00:41:00.360 align:middle line:84%
That is, controlling the inmate,
having disciplinary hearings

00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:02.540 align:middle line:84%
in the prison when
something goes wrong,

00:41:02.540 --> 00:41:06.650 align:middle line:84%
having enormous power to
recommend release or parole.

00:41:06.650 --> 00:41:08.930 align:middle line:84%
And these are traditional
state functions

00:41:08.930 --> 00:41:10.680 align:middle line:84%
that the state has
essentially handed over

00:41:10.680 --> 00:41:11.513 align:middle line:90%
to private industry.

00:41:11.513 --> 00:41:15.360 align:middle line:90%

00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:18.560 align:middle line:84%
Most of these individuals are
incarcerated in the segregation

00:41:18.560 --> 00:41:21.140 align:middle line:84%
area because they\'ve done
something, such as maybe engage

00:41:21.140 --> 00:41:22.910 align:middle line:90%
in a fight with another inmate.

00:41:22.910 --> 00:41:27.610 align:middle line:84%
Or they may have attempted
some escape plan.

00:41:27.610 --> 00:41:29.960 align:middle line:84%
Or they\'ve perhaps
even attempted

00:41:29.960 --> 00:41:32.450 align:middle line:84%
some sort of what we call an
insurrection, in other words,

00:41:32.450 --> 00:41:35.180 align:middle line:84%
tried to get a group of inmates
together to do something that\'s

00:41:35.180 --> 00:41:37.740 align:middle line:90%
against institutional policies.

00:41:37.740 --> 00:41:40.350 align:middle line:84%
It\'s been a real fun
experience for me.

00:41:40.350 --> 00:41:43.400 align:middle line:84%
I\'ve had the occasion
to learn a lot

00:41:43.400 --> 00:41:45.830 align:middle line:84%
about different personalities
and different people.

00:41:45.830 --> 00:41:48.330 align:middle line:84%
And that\'s basically what we\'re
all about in the corrections

00:41:48.330 --> 00:41:51.030 align:middle line:84%
field, is we\'re in the
business of managing behaviors.

00:41:51.030 --> 00:41:52.604 align:middle line:90%
That\'s our business.

00:41:52.604 --> 00:41:55.200 align:middle line:84%
It\'s a growing and
dynamic company.

00:41:55.200 --> 00:41:58.867 align:middle line:84%
And I think the thing that is
best reflective of the company

00:41:58.867 --> 00:42:01.200 align:middle line:84%
is the fact that there\'s so
many opportunities out there

00:42:01.200 --> 00:42:02.614 align:middle line:90%
for everyone.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

00:42:06.550 --> 00:42:20.350 align:middle line:90%

00:42:20.350 --> 00:42:24.010 align:middle line:84%
I think they get away with
more than they should.

00:42:24.010 --> 00:42:26.190 align:middle line:84%
And that\'s basically
because no one\'s watching,

00:42:26.190 --> 00:42:27.856 align:middle line:84%
or at least they feel
no one\'s watching.

00:42:27.856 --> 00:42:30.940 align:middle line:84%
If we were at home, a person
could pick up the phone

00:42:30.940 --> 00:42:34.630 align:middle line:84%
and call, like, the
ombudsman or human rights

00:42:34.630 --> 00:42:37.420 align:middle line:84%
or something like that,
and say, hey, this

00:42:37.420 --> 00:42:38.390 align:middle line:90%
is going on over here.

00:42:38.390 --> 00:42:42.562 align:middle line:84%
And those people would be
real quick to look into it.

00:42:42.562 --> 00:42:43.770 align:middle line:90%
Down here, you can\'t do that.

00:42:43.770 --> 00:42:46.460 align:middle line:84%
If you were to call like,
an Arizona agency and say,

00:42:46.460 --> 00:42:47.380 align:middle line:90%
hey, this is going on.

00:42:47.380 --> 00:42:49.390 align:middle line:84%
They would say, hey, we
have no jurisdiction.

00:42:49.390 --> 00:42:51.450 align:middle line:90%
You are an Alaskan resident.

00:42:51.450 --> 00:42:53.790 align:middle line:84%
You are in Arizona
in a private company.

00:42:53.790 --> 00:42:55.870 align:middle line:84%
It\'s not like it\'s
a state agency

00:42:55.870 --> 00:42:58.935 align:middle line:84%
and we regulate state
agencies and can oversee them

00:42:58.935 --> 00:43:00.060 align:middle line:90%
or anything else like that.

00:43:00.060 --> 00:43:05.370 align:middle line:90%
So you\'re caught in a gray area.

00:43:05.370 --> 00:43:07.790 align:middle line:84%
There are some
towns in some places

00:43:07.790 --> 00:43:09.000 align:middle line:90%
that like private prisons.

00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:11.860 align:middle line:84%
But generally speaking,
the private prisons

00:43:11.860 --> 00:43:14.270 align:middle line:84%
and running facilities
is decidedly mixed.

00:43:14.270 --> 00:43:17.237 align:middle line:84%
I mean, there are some real bad
instances of terrible prison

00:43:17.237 --> 00:43:17.820 align:middle line:90%
mismanagement.

00:43:17.820 --> 00:43:29.050 align:middle line:90%

00:43:29.050 --> 00:43:33.510 align:middle line:84%
The Brazoria incident
is a perfect example

00:43:33.510 --> 00:43:38.030 align:middle line:84%
of the extent to which the
violations of people\'s rights

00:43:38.030 --> 00:43:42.730 align:middle line:84%
can occur with impunity
in private prisons, which

00:43:42.730 --> 00:43:45.610 align:middle line:84%
isn\'t to say that they don\'t
occur in public prisons.

00:43:45.610 --> 00:43:48.080 align:middle line:90%
They do.

00:43:48.080 --> 00:43:52.060 align:middle line:84%
Brazoria indicated to people
that there is a serious problem

00:43:52.060 --> 00:43:56.260 align:middle line:84%
in prisons in this country, and
especially in private prisons.

00:43:56.260 --> 00:43:57.240 align:middle line:90%
Crawl, motherfucker.

00:43:57.240 --> 00:43:58.220 align:middle line:90%
Crawl.

00:43:58.220 --> 00:44:01.070 align:middle line:84%
One of the problems that
investors on Wall Street

00:44:01.070 --> 00:44:02.730 align:middle line:84%
seem in the private
prison industry

00:44:02.730 --> 00:44:05.731 align:middle line:84%
is that it is not that
reliable an industry.

00:44:05.731 --> 00:44:08.557 align:middle line:90%
[SHOUTS]

00:44:08.557 --> 00:44:11.860 align:middle line:90%

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And it\'s led to a number of
very difficult situations.

00:44:14.910 --> 00:44:18.740 align:middle line:90%
Riots in Texas, in Ohio.

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And it\'s really
given the industry

00:44:21.450 --> 00:44:24.213 align:middle line:84%
a bad name in
investment circles.

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[SHOUTS]

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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The private prison
industry is so confident

00:44:44.670 --> 00:44:46.110 align:middle line:84%
these days that
they are literally

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going into places and
building prisons on spec.

00:44:49.370 --> 00:44:53.240 align:middle line:84%
That is, they\'re financing the
entire prison with no guarantee

00:44:53.240 --> 00:44:55.470 align:middle line:84%
that states will actually
send inmates there.

00:44:55.470 --> 00:44:58.794 align:middle line:90%

00:44:58.794 --> 00:45:00.460 align:middle line:84%
What you\'re looking
at in the background

00:45:00.460 --> 00:45:03.020 align:middle line:84%
is a California
correctional facility

00:45:03.020 --> 00:45:06.180 align:middle line:84%
built by a company
called CCA on spec

00:45:06.180 --> 00:45:09.370 align:middle line:90%
for approximately $100 million.

00:45:09.370 --> 00:45:12.730 align:middle line:84%
Our goal, as a city, is to
have it full of prisoners,

00:45:12.730 --> 00:45:19.420 align:middle line:84%
2,304 beds full, so that we
will have 500 additional jobs

00:45:19.420 --> 00:45:20.350 align:middle line:90%
brought into the city.

00:45:20.350 --> 00:45:24.670 align:middle line:90%

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Citizens, for the most part,
are very, very excited,

00:45:28.630 --> 00:45:30.740 align:middle line:90%
very glad we\'re here.

00:45:30.740 --> 00:45:34.100 align:middle line:84%
It\'s going to be a boon
to the economy here.

00:45:34.100 --> 00:45:38.350 align:middle line:84%
It has caused me to buy
this shopping center here.

00:45:38.350 --> 00:45:39.880 align:middle line:90%
And it looks beautiful.

00:45:39.880 --> 00:45:42.140 align:middle line:90%
It doesn\'t look like a prison.

00:45:42.140 --> 00:45:43.060 align:middle line:90%
I like that.

00:45:43.060 --> 00:45:45.070 align:middle line:90%
And it\'s not right in town.

00:45:45.070 --> 00:45:46.350 align:middle line:90%
It\'s out of town.

00:45:46.350 --> 00:45:48.240 align:middle line:90%
But it\'s a very nice setting.

00:45:48.240 --> 00:45:51.840 align:middle line:84%
And I believe it\'s going to
be good for the community.

00:45:51.840 --> 00:45:53.140 align:middle line:90%
Our economy was terrible.

00:45:53.140 --> 00:45:57.790 align:middle line:84%
From about 1990 to
1997, \'98, for example,

00:45:57.790 --> 00:45:59.860 align:middle line:90%
we didn\'t build a single house.

00:45:59.860 --> 00:46:01.614 align:middle line:84%
In fact, if you
drive through town,

00:46:01.614 --> 00:46:03.030 align:middle line:84%
you\'ll notice that
there are still

00:46:03.030 --> 00:46:06.770 align:middle line:84%
many HUD houses and
abandoned houses in our town.

00:46:06.770 --> 00:46:09.290 align:middle line:84%
It looked like we had almost
a ghost town for a while.

00:46:09.290 --> 00:46:12.167 align:middle line:90%
And now that is gone.

00:46:12.167 --> 00:46:14.250 align:middle line:84%
Everybody thinks they\'re
going to get a better job

00:46:14.250 --> 00:46:18.140 align:middle line:84%
and have a better
lifestyle, and it\'ll

00:46:18.140 --> 00:46:20.930 align:middle line:84%
be permanent because that prison
is going to be there forever.

00:46:20.930 --> 00:46:24.040 align:middle line:84%
Well, this pile right here is
applications for the prison

00:46:24.040 --> 00:46:26.000 align:middle line:90%
that has been turned in.

00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:31.320 align:middle line:84%
And this stack over here is
employees that have been hired.

00:46:31.320 --> 00:46:35.040 align:middle line:84%
So it\'s big business for
California City right now.

00:46:35.040 --> 00:46:39.110 align:middle line:90%

00:46:39.110 --> 00:46:41.460 align:middle line:84%
We\'ll just walk the
walk through it.

00:46:41.460 --> 00:46:42.980 align:middle line:84%
And position
yourself, Mr. Vargo.

00:46:42.980 --> 00:46:45.610 align:middle line:84%
At this point in time, you
stabilize the pressure point.

00:46:45.610 --> 00:46:47.420 align:middle line:84%
And he gets compliance
from the subject.

00:46:47.420 --> 00:46:49.540 align:middle line:84%
At this point in
time, apply pressure.

00:46:49.540 --> 00:46:50.408 align:middle line:90%
Clap your hands.

00:46:50.408 --> 00:46:51.324 align:middle line:90%
Clap your hands.

00:46:51.324 --> 00:46:52.199 align:middle line:90%
Clap your hands.

00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:52.698 align:middle line:90%
OK.

00:46:52.698 --> 00:46:53.156 align:middle line:90%
Good job.

00:46:53.156 --> 00:46:55.197 align:middle line:84%
How many methods of
application can be used here?

00:46:55.197 --> 00:46:55.870 align:middle line:90%
Three.

00:46:55.870 --> 00:46:57.218 align:middle line:90%
Which are they?

00:46:57.218 --> 00:47:00.182 align:middle line:90%
[INTERPOSING VOICES]

00:47:00.182 --> 00:47:01.670 align:middle line:90%

00:47:01.670 --> 00:47:03.390 align:middle line:84%
Just a little bit of
training I\'ve had,

00:47:03.390 --> 00:47:05.080 align:middle line:84%
it made me realize
you don\'t want

00:47:05.080 --> 00:47:06.760 align:middle line:84%
to be breaking the
law because it\'s not

00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:09.712 align:middle line:90%
going to be a fun experience.

00:47:09.712 --> 00:47:11.230 align:middle line:84%
You\'re going to be
treated humanely,

00:47:11.230 --> 00:47:14.036 align:middle line:84%
but that\'s about
the extent of it.

00:47:14.036 --> 00:47:18.110 align:middle line:84%
All your other rights, all your
other freedoms, they\'re gone.

00:47:18.110 --> 00:47:20.010 align:middle line:90%
They\'re gone.

00:47:20.010 --> 00:47:21.580 align:middle line:90%
You can\'t go to McDonald\'s.

00:47:21.580 --> 00:47:23.829 align:middle line:84%
You can\'t do the
things that you want

00:47:23.829 --> 00:47:25.120 align:middle line:90%
to do when you want to do them.

00:47:25.120 --> 00:47:27.345 align:middle line:84%
Somebody is telling you
when you\'re going to do them

00:47:27.345 --> 00:47:29.070 align:middle line:84%
and when they want
you to do them.

00:47:29.070 --> 00:47:31.860 align:middle line:84%
And it\'s just made me
realize that I\'d much

00:47:31.860 --> 00:47:34.950 align:middle line:84%
rather be a correctional
officer than be an inmate.

00:47:34.950 --> 00:47:36.970 align:middle line:84%
It\'s hard to imagine
how it\'s going to be.

00:47:36.970 --> 00:47:38.750 align:middle line:84%
We\'ve been through
such a drought

00:47:38.750 --> 00:47:41.320 align:middle line:84%
as far as the economy
is concerned that we

00:47:41.320 --> 00:47:44.030 align:middle line:90%
really, really need these jobs.

00:47:44.030 --> 00:47:47.735 align:middle line:84%
And the jobs are what we
call non-polluting soft jobs,

00:47:47.735 --> 00:47:49.851 align:middle line:84%
to where there\'s
no manufacturing.

00:47:49.851 --> 00:47:51.850 align:middle line:84%
We\'re not putting out any
pollutants or anything

00:47:51.850 --> 00:47:52.350 align:middle line:90%
like that.

00:47:52.350 --> 00:47:53.870 align:middle line:90%
It\'s just a people building.

00:47:53.870 --> 00:47:55.980 align:middle line:84%
It\'s like running
a hotel for people

00:47:55.980 --> 00:47:58.970 align:middle line:84%
who didn\'t pay their last bill
at the last hotel they stayed

00:47:58.970 --> 00:47:59.470 align:middle line:90%
in.

00:47:59.470 --> 00:48:02.300 align:middle line:84%
It\'s one of those
kinds of things.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

00:48:06.300 --> 00:48:18.171 align:middle line:90%

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We need something
stable in the community.

00:48:19.920 --> 00:48:21.440 align:middle line:90%
That\'s why we went after it.

00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:22.650 align:middle line:90%
We didn\'t do it as a city.

00:48:22.650 --> 00:48:24.920 align:middle line:90%
We did it as a whole community.

00:48:24.920 --> 00:48:28.600 align:middle line:84%
And it has boosted the
morale of the community

00:48:28.600 --> 00:48:34.150 align:middle line:84%
tremendously because before, we
had nothing to look forward to.

00:48:34.150 --> 00:48:35.180 align:middle line:90%
Now we do.

00:48:35.180 --> 00:48:37.910 align:middle line:84%
I told people I was
so excited personally.

00:48:37.910 --> 00:48:39.970 align:middle line:84%
I said, we\'ve lived
here a long, long time.

00:48:39.970 --> 00:48:42.270 align:middle line:84%
It\'s not ever going to
be the sleepy little town

00:48:42.270 --> 00:48:43.240 align:middle line:90%
that it has been.

00:48:43.240 --> 00:48:46.550 align:middle line:84%
The city has been down,
but now it\'s coming up.

00:48:46.550 --> 00:48:51.370 align:middle line:84%
And yes, it\'s going to cause a
lot of people to come to town.

00:48:51.370 --> 00:48:53.470 align:middle line:84%
It\'s the beginning
of the beginning.

00:48:53.470 --> 00:48:56.320 align:middle line:90%

00:48:56.320 --> 00:48:59.230 align:middle line:84%
If we reach the point where we
want to scale back the prison

00:48:59.230 --> 00:49:02.970 align:middle line:84%
population, there are so
many jobs now in America

00:49:02.970 --> 00:49:06.750 align:middle line:84%
that depend on the existence
of a huge prison population.

00:49:06.750 --> 00:49:11.490 align:middle line:84%
These towns would probably
not survive economically.

00:49:11.490 --> 00:49:13.840 align:middle line:84%
What we\'re witnessing
is the emergence

00:49:13.840 --> 00:49:21.420 align:middle line:84%
of the prison to incapacitate
and warehouse and hide away

00:49:21.420 --> 00:49:28.160 align:middle line:84%
vast numbers of people who are
no longer considered useful.

00:49:28.160 --> 00:49:32.920 align:middle line:84%
Communities to be
hidden and thrown away.

00:49:32.920 --> 00:49:36.440 align:middle line:84%
That\'s not going to be a problem
of an empty prison and a warden

00:49:36.440 --> 00:49:40.040 align:middle line:84%
without any prisoners,
I guarantee it.

00:49:40.040 --> 00:49:41.887 align:middle line:84%
This place will be
full soon enough.

00:49:41.887 --> 00:49:42.881 align:middle line:90%

00:49:42.881 --> 00:49:45.863 align:middle line:90%
[DOOR CLOSING]

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[FOOTSTEPS]

00:49:53.815 --> 00:50:15.683 align:middle line:90%

00:50:15.683 --> 00:50:20.909 align:middle line:90%
[MUSIC PLAYING]

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