auction video capturing the sale of Littlefield prison. private ownership of prisons sounds pretty revolting. read below.
The troubled facility in Littlefield, TX was clearly a perfect storm of almost everything that could go wrong with a privately managed prison: staff-assisted escapes; suicides; romantic entanglements between inmates and staff; misuse of solitary confinement; lack of transparency; withdrawal of out-of-state prisoners and finally a private prison corporation walking away and leaving the townspeople and taxpayers of Littlefield responsible for an $11 million bond.
The Bill Clayton Detention Center was sold last week for $6 million to an anonymous buyer in an auction conducted by Williams & Williams Worldwide Real Estate Auction. You can watch the auction, where prisoners are referred to as “product”
(Source: paxamericana)
