Problems With Private Prisons  - STOP CCA IN San Diego & CCA Contracts with ICE.
   
Imagine going into Family Court, Superior Court, Civil Court or Federal Court and you see the letters CCA underneath.  You don't know that CCA means Corrections Corporation of America. You don't know that in a major, influencing way a private prison that needs 90% of it's beds filled to cover costs and make a profit is part of your court system.  You don't know that there have been $180 million dollars in law suits against this prison corporation including employees selling drugs to inmates, problems with controlling violence, poor to no medical care, and wrongful death litigation among others.      You don't know that two judges in Pennsylvania are serving prison sentences for accepting $2.8 million dollars in bribes from a prison corporation that gave the judges money for giving minors longer sentences in their private prison.
 
   Now imagine you don't have a car and your court has been moved outside the San Diego City limits so far away that you might miss your court date and receive a prison sentence because you didn't have transportation and you weren't able to reach the court.  You also find people reluctant to help you because you struggle with the language.
 
    All this works in favor of the company that runs the prison.  They have to keep their prison 90 % full to cover costs and make a profit. The company is Corrections Corporation of America.  The court is the Immigration Court.  The charges are not criminal, they're civil so you are not even a criminal and you are being forced to run a legal gauntlet leading to a company making a profit from your poverty and suffering simply by not having proper documentation.
 
     The only thing missing from the Immigration Court/CCA sign on this page is an insignia of a kangaroo.  Corrections Corporation of America is bad news with a bad history. 
 
     We don't want another prison in San Diego, especially a private one run by a corporation with a checkered history. The potential for abuse is manifold.  Private prisons had such a bad record of prisoner abuse in the nineteenth century in the United States they were outlawed by the turn of the century.