What Do I Know About Prisons

But that s another story.

What do i know about prisons. As a private prison we were only supposed to get inmates up to a medium level of severity. What do i know april 28 2014 by dave dove several months ago randy grounds the warden at salinas valley state prison in california saw former professional football player mike barber on television talking about his ministry in prisons. But without detailed data on exactly how private facilities spend public money it is impossible to know whether they are in fact cheaper or more efficient. Do they actually save money.

Know what their rights are get help with their physical and mental health for example with sexual health or drug and alcohol problems are told what courses they can do in prison. There is a prison economy and you can benefit from it. Open up to others about your loved one in prison. Also has the highest prison rate in the world at about 724 people per 100 000 half of the world s prison population of approximately 9 million people is held in the u s russia or china.

The state would fiddle with the numbers all the time in order to dump the inmates on us. The main argument in favor of private prisons housing federal inmates is that they can save taxpayer dollars. We had a points system and once they got above a certain number we had to send them to the state. My job for a while was to do that paperwork and guess what.

And i have been detained in a prison in iran for six months. Correctional officer is a typical job nowadays doesn t matter how strange it may sound to some of us. At the end of the day you can t do this alone. It s important for us to share what we know about the prison system.

You ll need support from your local community. Many inmates don t have money on the books either because they have no one on the outside who cares enough to put it there or simply because they aren t in a financial position to do so.