{"id":2088,"date":"2013-09-23T16:26:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T16:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2013-09-23T16:26:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T16:26:47","slug":"low-crime-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/09\/23\/low-crime-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Low crime tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6 shocking revelations about how private prisons make money<br \/>\nPrivate prison companies are striking deals that guarantee high prison occupancy rates<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/09\/23\/6_shocking_revelations_about_how_private_prisons_make_money_partner\/\">http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/09\/23\/6_shocking_revelations_about_how_private_prisons_make_money_partner\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have talked about the <a href=\"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/27\/usa-the-prison-society\/\">prison industrial complex<\/a> a time or twain before so this won&#8217;t be news to my regular reader(s), but I figured it wouldn&#8217;t hurt to slide it in for a bit of repetition.  Here are the revelations for those of you who won&#8217;t take the time to read the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>    65 percent of the private prison contracts ITPI received and analyzed included occupancy guarantees in the form of quotas or required payments for empty prison cells (a \u201clow-crime tax\u201d). These quotas and low-crime taxes put taxpayers on the hook for guaranteeing profits for private prison corporations.<\/li>\n<li>    Occupancy guarantee clauses in private prison contracts range between 80% and 100%, with 90% as the most frequent occupancy guarantee requirement.<\/li>\n<li>    Arizona, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Virginia are locked in contracts with the highest occupancy guarantee requirements, with all quotas requiring between 95% and 100% occupancy.<\/li>\n<li>    Though crime has dropped by a third in the past decade, an occupancy requirement covering three for-profit prisons has forced taxpayers in Colorado to pay an additional $2 million.<\/li>\n<li>    Three Arizona for-profit prison contracts have a staggering 100% quota, even though a 2012 analysis from Tucson Citizen shows that the company\u2019s per-day charge for each prisoner has increased an average of 13.9% over the life of the contracts.<\/li>\n<li>    A 20-year deal to privately operate the Lake Erie Correctional Institution in Ohio includes a 90% quota, and has contributed to cutting corners on safety, including overcrowding, areas without secure doors and an increase in crime both inside the prison and in the surrounding community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t it great that taxpayers provide so much to the rich and powerful!  So sad that they can&#8217;t get by on their own resources and need so much help, but we are a great country and we help out those who are in need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 shocking revelations about how private prisons make money Private prison companies are striking deals that guarantee high prison occupancy rates http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/09\/23\/6_shocking_revelations_about_how_private_prisons_make_money_partner\/ I have talked about the prison industrial complex a time or twain before so this won&#8217;t be news to my regular reader(s), but I figured it wouldn&#8217;t hurt to slide it in for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/09\/23\/low-crime-tax\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Low crime tax&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19,16,12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-government","category-law","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}