@Duchess64
My son in law Gandhi got his Phd in statistical physics at Boston Uni.
He had money for tuition, housing and food but not for books, which like you say, hundreds of dollars for a single book.
So he did all his homework in library checking out the books he needed, he did that throughout his entire Phd program.
BTW, he is now known as the 'father of foraging', his thesis was on the foraging path of sea birds like albatross and the like, finding the path they take is very much like a certain math function.
Anyway he went all the way through to Phd without buying a single book.
I had an uncle who worked as border patrol in Arizona. He told me when they stopped in to those camps holding all those unskilled and uneducated invaders looking for handouts the smell of those refried beans and the potato and egg breakfast burritos they were allowed to cook up was simply mouth watering. I bet. Those people can, to be honest, cook up some darn good tacos and tamales.
@shavixmir saidMaybe not for much longer.
The US prison system is disgusting.
They create cheap labour so businesses like banks can save money.
And they use the three strikes and your out rule to keep inmates detained as long as they please.
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2021/01/biden-order-justice-department-private-prisons/
For four years, the Trump administration embraced private prisons, signing contracts with corporations to incarcerate detainees, immigrants, and people serving federal sentences. Now, that era is coming to a close as President Joe Biden signs an executive order Tuesday afternoon instructing the Department of Justice to allow its contracts with for-profit prison companies to expire.
The executive order “will ultimately end the Justice Department’s use of private prisons, an industry that houses pretrial detainees and federal prisoners,” Biden said Tuesday in a speech on his racial equity policy agenda. The decision means the gradual end for a dozen private prisons that currently incarcerate about 14,000 people—about 9 percent of the federal prison population. Most of those are men without US citizenship serving short federal sentences under low security. It could also affect for-profit jails run by private prison companies under contract with US Marshals Service, a DOJ division that holds pretrial detainees.
“Private prisons profiteer off of federal prisoners and are proven to be—or are found to be by the Department of Justice Inspector General— to be less safe for correctional officers and for prisoners,” domestic policy advisor Susan Rice said at a White House briefing today. “President Biden is committed to reducing mass incarceration while making our communities safer. That starts with ending federal government’s reliance on private prisons.”
The order will restore a policy first implemented under President Barack Obama, when then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates released a memo announcing that the Justice Department would phase out its contracts with private prison companies to lock up people convicted of federal crimes—responding both to a declining federal prison population and to a damning Office of the Inspector General report showing that federal prisons run by for-profit companies were more violent and less secure than publicly operated ones. But before the change could have much effect, Trump won the presidency and Attorney General Jeff Sessions swiftly reversed the policy, kicking off a new era of growth for private prison companies fueled largely by federal contacts.
Biden’s executive order will have major implications for the private prison industry’s top players, including the GEO Group, Management and Training Corporation, and CoreCivic, formerly known as the Corrections Corporation of America. In 2019, Bureau of Prisons and Marshals Service contracts accounted for about 23 percent of the GEO Group’s revenue, and 22 percent of CoreCivic’s revenue. Stocks for CoreCivic and GEO fell 18 percent and 12 percent respectively following the news of the executive order on Tuesday.
While Biden’s move fulfills a campaign promise to end the federal use of private prisons, it stops short of a second pledge to end for-profit immigration detention centers. It remains unclear how quickly private immigration detention centers—which make up the majority of the ICE detention system and account for about a third of GEO’s and CoreCivic’s revenue—could be closed and what would replace them.
Yet today’s order is a sign of the Democratic Party’s decisive shift against private prisons over the last several years. Public outcry against private prisons intensified during the Trump administration, as outrage over hardline immigration policies, including family separation, drew attention to ICE’s detention apparatus and the corporations that profited from it. In 2019, under pressure from activists, major US banks announced they would no longer finance the private prison industry. Meanwhile, states have been weighing and passing their own private prison bans.
Silky Shah, the executive director of the Detention Watch Network, welcomed the new policy while calling for a renewed focus on ending private immigration detention. “We are encouraged that the Biden administration’s Department of Justice is prioritizing phasing out the use of private prisons—a decision that was made too late in the Obama administration and was immediately reversed by Trump,” she said in a statement. “The Biden administration must now address the private prison industry’s toxic relationship with the Department of Homeland Security.”
@JinxDawson
Did your uncle say anything about ripping infants from their mom's arms and stuffing them into cages by the THOUSANDS?
I assume since you are clearly a white nationalist you would approve of ALL of the inhumanity.
@jinxdawson saidMy favorite place to get real down home Mexican food is a dingy little crummy looking roadside trailer a mile from my house, it serves the best bean and cheese burritos I've ever had, they got authentic refried beans and home made tortillas with a salsa bar you can dump all kinds of sauces and fixings on. Five bucks and the burrito is as big as a copy of the Sunday Times.
I had an uncle who worked as border patrol in Arizona. He told me when they stopped in to those camps holding all those unskilled and uneducated invaders looking for handouts the smell of those refried beans and the potato and egg breakfast burritos they were allowed to cook up was simply mouth watering. I bet. Those people can, to be honest, cook up some darn good tacos and tamales.
I do love Mexican food, but who doesn't?
By the way Mr. Jinx I believe you're not long for this site, The Usual Suspects will be getting you banned before too long.🤣🤣🤣
Here are two statements that make no sense.
domestic policy advisor Susan Rice said at a White House briefing today. “President Biden is committed to reducing mass incarceration while making our communities safer. That starts with ending federal government’s reliance on private prisons.”
how do you reduce incarceration, while simultaneously making communities safer,, just by eliminating private prisons?
Susan must be on one of those magic mushrooms.