Prisons Are Adopting The Walmart Business Model


"CCA's plan to become the Walmart of reentry may be good for its investors, but it should alarm the rest of us. First, the for-profit prison industry's history of abuse, neglect, and mismanagement raises serious questions about what kinds of abuses would occur if we hand over control of even more elements of our criminal justice system to CCA and similar profit-driven companies. Second, CCA fights aggressively to shield its operations from public scrutiny -- even though incarceration and rehabilitation are some of the government responsibilities where transparency and accountability are most important."