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2 US judges provide children for private jail for $2 million
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Oh dear, Monbiot and his muddled media mathematics.

Quote:The US has, by a very long way, the world’s highest proportion of people behind bars: 756 prisoners per 100,000 people, or just over 1% of the adult population.4

When I was at school, 1% of 100,000 was 1,000.

But I do note the rider he adds i.e., “adult population”. But why use this stat if it is as meaningless as it is? I thought that accurate journalism was alive in certain hands - albeit not the Guardian, it seems.

But for all that, it is an important piece. And the rowth of private prisons in the Uk is awful.

I also notice that Gordo’s long touted “Public Finance Initiative” (i.e., Public-Private Partnerships) is now in dire straight. The PFI is where the state hands over nice, juicy and highly lucrative contracts to the private sector to build prisons, hospitals etc - on the condition that the private sector finance the work and, thereafter, reap the rewards for ever and ever. But the banking crisis means that the government is now having to step into to finance the work as the private sector cannot (it says) raise the finance. But, of course, the private sector will non-the-less continue to reap the “for ever after” rewards.

In other words another case where the government hands over the taxpayers money to the private sector in exchange for sweet fuck all. At least as far as I can see anyway.

Nice one Gordo.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14
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2 US judges provide children for private jail for $2 million - by David Guyatt - 06-03-2009, 12:52 PM

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