09-06-2011, 06:50 PM
James Lewis Wrote:As a former corrections officer who used to work for CCA, I can testify to the fact that the Peter Principle (sorry about that, Peter) is alive and well in the private prison system. It's not that the conditions are that bad, they're no better or worse than most other prisons. The problem is that the bigwigs who run CCA and other private prison companies intend to do everything on a shoestring if at all possible. And if that means screwing over good officers, prisoners or anyone else who gets in the way of that goal, such is life.
James - given your experience, I'd be very interested in your insider perspective on the US prison system.
As a documentary maker, I watch programmes such as NatGeo's "America's Hardest Prisons" and know both how they are made and their likely impact on viewers. How true to your own work experiences is the prison life described in such documentaries?
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"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war