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<blockquote data-quote="vvvvvvv" data-source="post: 2356065" data-attributes="member: 5151"><p>To me, it's not limited to marijuana. No one should be in prison for merely putting something in their own body or distributing something to a consenting adult, especially if it's a natural substance.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Nearly 1 in 4 Oklahoma inmates are in 3 private prisons that have a contracts guaranteeing 98% occupancy of 6,150 beds (the fourth prison houses inmates from California, and the fifth and sixth private prisons are currently vacant). There are 3 female-only correctional centers, 8 publicly operated minimum security correctional centers, and 6 publicly operated medium/maximum security correctional centers - not "dozens of prisons" - that make up the remaining 20,000 beds (with 683 beds reserved for use by county jails). Not all correctional centers are prisons. At least take five minutes to look up something on ODOC's website before making a false claim about it...</p><p></p><p>Private prisons also enjoy a protection that public prisons don't: no one other than the individual guard can be sued or held accountable for Constitutional violations in a private prison, while the State in addition to the guard can be sued or held accountable in a public prison. </p><p><a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-860.ZS.html" target="_blank"><em>Correctional Services Corp. vs. Malesko</em>, 534 U.S. 61 (2001)</a>. The private prison is not considered a state actor by the courts. (In contrast, private organizations such as OSSAA that do work on behalf of the state are state actors.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vvvvvvv, post: 2356065, member: 5151"] To me, it's not limited to marijuana. No one should be in prison for merely putting something in their own body or distributing something to a consenting adult, especially if it's a natural substance. Nearly 1 in 4 Oklahoma inmates are in 3 private prisons that have a contracts guaranteeing 98% occupancy of 6,150 beds (the fourth prison houses inmates from California, and the fifth and sixth private prisons are currently vacant). There are 3 female-only correctional centers, 8 publicly operated minimum security correctional centers, and 6 publicly operated medium/maximum security correctional centers - not "dozens of prisons" - that make up the remaining 20,000 beds (with 683 beds reserved for use by county jails). Not all correctional centers are prisons. At least take five minutes to look up something on ODOC's website before making a false claim about it... Private prisons also enjoy a protection that public prisons don't: no one other than the individual guard can be sued or held accountable for Constitutional violations in a private prison, while the State in addition to the guard can be sued or held accountable in a public prison. [URL="http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-860.ZS.html"][I]Correctional Services Corp. vs. Malesko[/I], 534 U.S. 61 (2001)[/URL]. The private prison is not considered a state actor by the courts. (In contrast, private organizations such as OSSAA that do work on behalf of the state are state actors.) [/QUOTE]
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