The decision was taken to purchase Clifford's Tower and the Waud house, with the aim of demolishing them both to make room for a new, more modern prison.
With Wall Street money, the larger prison firms lobby hard for the government to fund new prisons, create more prisoners, and employ more prison guards.
This includes 50% more for the Ministry of Public Security, 25% more for the Justice Ministry, 20% more for Defence and 13% more for the Navy.In addition, political and security leaders have announced a 74-point emergency plan focused on sacking corrupt police, giving security forces more potent weapons, building new prisons and better addressing money-laundering and drug-trafficking.
According to promotional materials, the company's approach "Reduces Crime" and is "More cost effective than building new prisons, Reduces overcrowding, Saves Taxpayers Millions of dollars, Generates Revenue".
Disturbances have been reported in as many as 52 Italian prisons in the past fortnight.The government has dithered, while making several proposals for new prisons, for more magistrates to make the wheels of justice turn faster, for foreign criminals to be kicked out of Italy.
The measure was folded into a massive, omnibus crime bill that also built new prisons, hired more police officers, and imposed harsher penalties on criminals, among other things.
Prison crowding has reached a crisis, but the budget did not provide for new prisons or hiring more than about 50 new guards.
It is costly and unpopular to build new prisons and hire more guards; California, amid a severe fiscal crisis, is already spending $9 billion a year on corrections.
Even Republicans in the state are hesitant to suggest building new prisons or spending more money to add beds.
To fulfill Trump's plan, we will need to build new prisons and have several million more prisoners.
