Even though CWW is charged in a Florida crime, Sheriff Scott said,
"prison is prison." In many ways that is true, but as we have already heard....CWW hasn't had a lot of visitors in Florida. It is an awfully long drive and his "roots" are mostly in Missouri? However, "location" does make a huge difference to an inmate's family. California regularly "contracts out" to prisons in other states.
"As of November 20, 2013, California housed 8,302 of its state prisoners in private prisons in Arizona, Mississippi and Oklahoma. It sends more prisoners out of state than Hawaii, Idaho and Vermont combined." (warning, it is a long article, and you don't have to read it all... the
first few paragraphs explains my point.)
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/...-out-of-state-to-reduce-its-prison-population
I was unaware of "
for profit prisons"
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). until it happened to the son of one of my clients. (The same elderly couple who send the max $ allowed every month I wrote about before.) Their son was sent to a prison more than a thousand miles away from where he committed his crimes. It is tragic for the parents, but the young man committed the crimes.
A horrible situation! His
VICTIMS did not choose to be victimized, so probably not a good idea for the
convicted criminal to CHOOSE their place of incarceration, either. (That is my personal opinion, but I can't say that to the elderly couple. Their other kids are great.)
If sentencing assures the convict will never be released....why not plead guilty to an earlier crime in another state?