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Arizona?s Prison Privatization Scheme Is a Comedy Gold Mine. The Joke's on Us

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Arizona?s Prison Privatization Scheme Is a Comedy Gold Mine. The Joke's on Us Thursday 10 December 2009 by: Caroline Isaacs, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed You know you?re in trouble when "The Daily Show" sends a ?fake correspondent? to your state capitol. Perhaps it was inevitable - who could resist the irony of a state literally selling its capitol to the highest bidder? The comedy in the footage of the aforementioned correspondent standing on Rep. Kyrsten Sinema?s desk to test the quality of the drop ceiling in her office was eclipsed only by the tragedy of Rep. Linda Lopez's complete inability to answer the question that should have been first on the mind of every elected official in Arizona: "After you sell these buildings and have to pay rent on them, how will you balance the budget next year?" But the "Daily Show" segment was only the beginning...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 15, 2009 (boomark / email).