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==Cost Cutting Leads to Violence, Abuse, and Death==
[[Image:Crime_Pays_CCA-AFSCME.org350px.jpg|right|350px]]One of the most common critiques of private prisons is that the industry's goals of maximizing profits are at odds with the traditional goals of the criminal justice system, such as offender rehabilitation, reducing recidivism rates, increasing public safety, and lowering crime rates.
In addition to making more profits when more people are behind bars, CCA's cost-cutting measures have led to an extensive record of inmate-on-inmate and guard-on-inmate (and vice-versa) violence which are many times a result of inadequate training, low pay and high turnover of corrections staff as well as chronic understaffing.
====Violence, Riots, and Escapes Resulting in Injury or Death====
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*'''CCA-Run Idaho "Gladiator School" ''': The CCA-operated Idaho Correctional Center (ICC) had experienced egregious levels of violence, earning itself the nickname the "Gladiator School." The Idaho Department of Correction determined in a 2008 study that the ICC had “four times more prisoner-on prisoner assaults than Idaho’s other seven publicly-operated prisons combined.” CCA employees were alleged to have been complicit in the violence, using violence as a "management tool" and failing to protect vulnerable prisoners from predatory inmates.<ref>American Civil Liberties Union, [http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/bankingonbondage_20111102.pdf Banking on Bondage: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration], organizational report, November 2011.</ref>
====Deaths Resulting from Withholding Medical Care====
[[Image:Profit_from_Pain_In-Humane350px.jpg|leftright|350px|frame|A UMNS photo by Paul Jeffrey.]]
*'''CCA-Managed Dawson State Jail in Texas Closes; Several Deaths at the Facility Due to Inadequate Medical Care''': Dawson State Jail in Dallas, Texas is a low-security facility for people convicted of non-violent crimes. In response to several deaths at the facility, organizations like Grassroots Leadership and The Sentencing Project successfully advocated for the closure of the facility.<ref>Bob Libal, Grassroots Leadership, [http://grassrootsleadership.org/blog/2013/06/victory-texas-dawson-state-jail-will-close Victory in Texas: The Dawson State Jail Will Close!], press release, June 11, 2013.</ref> The organizations reported that the facility had experienced seven deaths since 2004, deaths that the groups say might have been prevented if those inmates had received proper medical care and attention from CCA staff.<ref>Nicole Porter, Grassroots Leadership and The Sentencing Project, [http://sentencingproject.org/doc/inc_TX_Dawson_State_Jail_The_Case_for_Closure_2013.pdf DAWSON STATE JAIL: The Case for Closure], organizational report, February 2013.</ref>
