Jackson Jambalaya

Prisoners are money? Keep the private prison system and they'll be food next. See Soylent Green. Come to think of it, our State government will eventually move in that direction without any prompting from the prison industrial complex.

You know, take care of world hunger and reduce the burden on the public fisc without needing to raise taxes. Waiting for the Governor to propose this fix in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1.

Cecil McCrory's other company is Mississippi Correctional Communications, Inc. with over 20 inmate telephone contracts with county jails all over the state, starting with Rankin County. Those contracts could be hard to service from behind the walls of Club Fed. don'tcha think?

inmates need no services beyond basic nutrition, basic health care, and quarterly visitation. it supposed to be a friggin prison devoid of pleasurable life. I had times when I had to do without nice food, tobacco, alcohol, family contact, music, and a comfy bed, and I never have raped, murdered, stole, or cheated someone. What in the hell are we thinking?

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Apparently your eyes just opened up to the big boogey man known as ' the government contractor'.
Make no mistake: it adds to the deficit and politicians would rather cut grandma off of social security rather than charge these folks a REASONABLE rate.
Nationally, the latest public bondoogle was CGI federal in how it handled the ' obamacare' website.
This begs an overbearing question- since these deals seem to be just the tip of the iceberg, what do we not know about that you and I are expected to pay for in largesse to combat the national deficit that is most assuredly being affected on a grand scale in regards to wasteful government spending via ' government contractors'?

You goobers axe for transparency. This gov contract shit has been transparent for decades and you whistle as you walk past it.

The government contractors all use the connected consultants to do their bidding in the meetings behind closed doors. Without the right person to do this the chance of participation is greatly diminished. There is no way to know what the costs are to the taxpayers but my guess would be at least 10% of all contracts are for payoffs,commissions,consulting fees,campaign donations,ect. There are so many ways to spread the money around.

Universal Music all shook up over jailhouse rock, sues

Universal Music has mounted a legal challenge against a company that produces so-called care packages for prisoners, including mix tapes featuring some of Universal's artists.

http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Music/2015/0108/Universal-Music-all-shook-up-over-jailhouse-rock-sues

"As the world remembers Elvis Presley on what would have been his 80th birthday, another music giant, Universal, is all shook up over alleged intellectual property theft by a company that produces mix tapes for America's prisoners.

Based in Massachusetts, the Keefe Group furnishes the incarcerated with personal items like candy, sneakers, toiletries, electronics, and mix tapes, that is a CD with recordings from many different artists, usually aimed to set a specific mood."

Lawsuit linked here-
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/pirated-music-infiltrating-us-prisons-record-label-says/

"Universal Music claims in a federal lawsuit that the Keefe Group and its associated companies are selling "contraband" CDs to prisoners. According to the labels' federal suit (PDF) filed in Los Angeles"