20 January 2014 (16:19 UTC-07 Tango)/18 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/30 Dey 1392/20 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

The Gem State’s legislative budget writers have approved funding the state takeover of the notorious Gladiator School.

The state prison has been run, for more than a decade, by Corrections Corporation of America.  It has been plague by lawsuits and accusations of prisoner abuse and medical neglect.  Former victims say prisoners were encouraged to beat the crap out of each other, hence the nickname.

But that’s not what got CCA kicked out of Idaho.  Turns out, as usual, money is more important than human rights.

A 2012 Associated Press investigation accuses CCA of lying to taxpayers about how many employees were actually staffing the Idaho Correctional Center.  AP accuses CCA of falsifying the number of employees at the prison.  The Idaho Department of Corrections admitted they never verified any of CCA’s paperwork! The AP investigation also said Idaho taxpayers were not saving any money by having the prison managed by a for profit private contractor (no shit Sherlock, that’s why it’s called “for profit”).

Also, CCA never explained why it fired some employees.

But note, the AP reported its findings in 2012, and here it is 2014!  The Right to Work you over state officials decided to just let CCA run the place until the contract expires in June 2014.  Oohh, so it’s not like your ‘elected’ officials really care about doing the right moral thing, it’s all about the money, your money!