"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." Carl Takei
