Last week it was announced that Florida-based Correct Care Recovery Solutions will be operating the new Civil Commitment Center in West Texas.
Correct Care Recovery Solutions is a misnomer. it implies that what’s being done is “correct”, that those housed there are receiving “care”, that they are working towards “recovery” and that their program provides a “solution”.
Actually, CCRS is the company formerly known as the GEO Group. The same company that donated millions to the Republican Party and to Florida Governor Rick Scott’s campaign. The only solution that their programs provide is a profit to their shareholder’s pockets. There’s no recovery because those housed there are going to sit there indefinitely and certainly no care provided (unless you are talking about their board caring about the money the shareholders will be making) and certainly the scam is not correct.
We’ve been posting about for-profit prisons for a couple months now and how horrible a system it is, but this time we’ll simply share an illustration that will tell the story for us. Below is a chart showing the performance of the GEO Group stock. 10 years ago the stock was $9.01, today it’s $37.84. It’s more than quadrupled in the last 10 years!
Does anyone think that there’s something horribly wrong about a system where a company can control it’s own profitability by keeping people locked up unwillingly and not as part of their sentence?
Oh yes something is horribly wrong with this – we already know we have the most incarcerated of any country in the World. I wonder if we are the only country that has this “civil commitment” program.” When you think about it the registry itself is a type of civil commitment (although at least they are not locked up physically) because it too is punishment after the sentence is served. We are told it is civil and that is why it is not punishment. What a bunch of bunk – If they go ahead with monitoring for registered citizens and/or charging for registration then they will be making tons of money from that too.