CRM 2306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Private Prison, Deinstitutionalisation, Anger Management
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Private prisons became more popular in the 1980s, the same time that the war on drugs rose. Cca lobbying expenditures - peak in 2005 with million vs 1990 with ,000. Puts political pressure on policies, courts to imprison someone when instead you should have lower prison rate and focus on rehabilitation. They pick the healthiest prison (no mental illness, no medications, etc) so they don"t have to spend a lot of money on programs for them. 2 biggest corporations: cca (corrections corporation of canada) and geo. Outsourced services: hired someone for the services (psychological assessments, community supervision programs, treatment beds, offender visitation programs) Contracted services: set up a dental care in the facility, have their own material and infrastructure (dentistal care, physician, food services, laundry, camp operations) Video #2: prison industrial complex buying judges to jail kids bribed to imprison kids for scratching cars and thrown steaks, shows that the court got power over minority.