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Martin O'Malley

Bluenorthwest

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4. Short answer, Reagan here, Thatcher there.

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 4, 2015, 04:32 PM

Aug 2015

US and UK started this crap within a few years of one another. Currently 11% of prisoners in UK are in privately operated prisons. 16% of US Fed prisoners, 6% of State Prisoners are in privately run facilities. The Feds use them like crazy for immigration detentions.

"If this is how Her Majesty treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any."- Oscar Wilde

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8 Excellent Points Martin O'Malley Made When Outlining His Criminal Justice Plan [View all] elleng Aug 2015 OP

Bang on on ever substantive point. Private prisons? Who ever thought that would not be a mess? Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #1

I don't know her actual positions; elleng Aug 2015 #2

Short answer, Reagan here, Thatcher there. Bluenorthwest Aug 2015 #4

K & R. n/t FSogol Aug 2015 #3