The behemoth CCA -- our nation's largest private, for-profit prison corporation, has turned Pinal County -- once a mining and agriculture community--into what is now a prison industry community. The residents are being harvested into the "crop." This is so wrong, and so demonic.
Regarding the statement: "It is chilling to think that any school official would be willing to put vulnerable students at risk this way" - I am profoundly chilled by this school official. At first, I thought perhaps the CCA invited themselves to the school. But after reading this article, I am even more worried about what school officials are inviting and complicit in.
One wonders whether Mr. Anderson or any other principal who does this has other incentives for inviting the CCA to conduct gestapo style raids - could he or they be offered stocks or shares or other benefits in the CCA Nazi Corporation? It does remind me of a corporate state, and it seems we are heading in that direction. Are we there yet? With the republicans controlling many of our state legislatures, I imagine we are there.
I won't think a private prison system could operate unless the State allowed it too, licensed it and allowed it to be built. Therefore the State is the problem. And I suppose the State's tax money is paying for it too! I don't know just wondering.
Sara,
That "Climate Strategy Memo" is a fake. It was not produced by anyone at or affiliated with The Heartland Institute. Even many on the left have given up that ghost long ago. Go to the link below, then click around the site some.
http://fakegate.org/bast-on-forged-memo/
And what does this even mean?: "For the Heartland Institute, the corporate purse strings lead back to ALEC private sector board members Exxon Mobil and Koch Industries, whose massive holdings include oil refineries. All three are ALEC private sector members."
Lead back where? Heartland hasn't received a cent from ExxonMobile in going on seven years, and got a tiny gift from Koch for education policy, its first gift in a decade. How is that Heartland benefiting from their "corporate purse strings"? I don't get it ... other than as a sloppy attempt to include Heartland in some nefarious, corporate-funded conspiracy. You might want to write and act less paranoid. It'll be good for your health.
In 2011 Heartland received 46 percent of its income from foundations, 29 percent from corporations, and 22 percent from individuals. And no corporate donor gave more than 5 percent of Heartland's annual budget. That's the truth, whether it fits your narrative, or not.
Jim Lakely
Director of Communications
The Heartland Institute
Chicago, IL
I am also a primary care physician, but aware of the delivery of health care issues. I do ask my patients about whether they are insured and what they are covered for. If you are coming for an urgent care visit and being billed for what you are asking to be seen for then its a patient's responsibility to make sure that is covered for them. If you are coming for your well-care of preventative health visit in which the physician is already being covered for what should be a full exam then what a physician finds being negative or positive should not then be separately billed. The visit was for a physical, the pt was covered for a physical and the physician reimbursed for a physical. If f/u is needed for a finding then separate reimbursement comes for that f/u visit.
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