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Subject: Profits Of Prisons:A New Film
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 01 13:54:01 -0800
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Date: 01/25 1:20 PM
From: Cathy Scott, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Profits of Punishment
"I don't like empty beds. We are a private business"
Mike Samberg - CCA prison warden
Profits of Punishment Directed by Catherine Scott and Produced by Pat
Fiske will screen on COURT TV on JAN 31 2001 at 10pm EST and Feb 3rd at
6pm
EST
Profits of Punishment is about business behind bars in the United
States.
The film's main focus is on the jailers and the glitzy commercial arena
of
the prison industry. This is contrasted with the world of their
captives
living out their confined lives on the inside. The prison is a
long-standing image of state power. What effect will it have on our
society now that the bright new prison is becoming an image of corporate
power as well? What does it mean for democracy if community safety
increasingly becomes tied to the thriving business of locking up large
numbers of people?
In the era of "Law and Order" and "Zero Tolerance", tough new sentencing
laws adopted by the US and many other countries are resulting in an
influx
of prisoners, creating massive overcrowding. Rather than looking at
alternatives that might prevent crime and reduce prison populations,
governments are responding to this crisis by increasing the prison
capacity
and contracting prison to private multinational corporations. This has
created an international prison market dominated by a handful of
American-based companies.
Profits of Punishment follows the prison entrepreneurs to places behind
the
glossy brochures, to a giant prison convention. Here we observe hundreds
of
salesmen marketing the latest prison products such as portable restraint
devices, stackable cells and the latest surveillance technology. People
like George Wackenhut - a self-made billionaire who has amassed his
giant
fortune through his international security firm and Corrections
Corporation, highlights the burgeoning market in private prisons.
Private
prison pioneers discuss their strategies to create a more
cost-effective,
innovative, clean, lean incarcerating machine.
In Texas we visit a factory assembly line in the Lockhart Work Facility,
a
private prison owned and managed by the Wackenhut Corporation. This
on-site
prison factory produces circuit boards for LTI, a company that had
closed
its previous facility in Austin. One hundred and fifty people lost
their
jobs before the company opened a new factory months later inside
Lockhart
prison.
Companies such as CCA and Wackenhut are willing to build huge prison
complexes on spec in the likelihood that they will be filled. In
California
City, an economic backwater in the middle of the Mojave Desert, CCA has
built a $110 million prison to house 2.300 people. Sheriff Apaio who
runs
a tent jail in the desert of Arizona, adapts a quote from the movie
"Field
of Dreams," to describe the situation - "you build it and they'll come."
Sheriff Apaio is the ultimate "get tough on crime" folk hero, promoting
himself as an "equal opportunity incarcerator." He has initiated the
first
ever women's chain gang complete with stripped uniforms. Despite
working
nine hours a day, seven days a week, the inmates are expected to pay $1
a
day for baloney sandwiches.
Profits of Punishment is an emotional experience, but also a
thought-provoking study of the reality of a booming prison industry and
its
commercialisation through the development of private prisons.
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