Wandering about at Skippy the Bush Kangaroo’s place I see that Jamess Sensenbrenner wants to stick it to the judicial system and be both judge and jury.
In an extraordinary move, the chairman of the house judiciary committee privately demanded last month that the 7th u.s. circuit court of appeals in chicago change its decision in a narcotics case because he didn’t believe a drug courier got a harsh enough prison term.
Extracted at the blog are key points from the Chicago Tribune article.
Previous postings here on Sensenbrenner include stock portfolio and his gavel snagging and his sponsoring The Safe Access to Drug Treatment & Child Protection Act of 2005 and No, we only take real IDs not fake ones.
Plus the post on Sunday pointing to the Prison Nation graphic that shows a nice bold red mountain climbing prison population.
What can I say but I was really surprised Sensenbrenner doesn’t hold stock in some prison/security corporation like Corrections Corp. of America or the Geo Group, considering, and considering that federal prisions are at 33 percent overcapacity and more than half the states are at overcapacity as well.
And, as was pointed out by Michael Brush of MSN in a Jan 2005 article, “3 Prison Stocks Poised to Break Out”, even if you’re not looking for prison windfalls from The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act or Sensenbrenner’s hope of imprisoning anyone who doesn’t narc on some kids that one’s kids heard were partying, that upward trend in prison population is going to keep climbing:
Demand should pick up over the next decade for a simple demographic reason. The children of baby boomers, the so-called echo boom, are about to enter the 18- to 24-year old age group — the years when people commit the most crimes. The Federal Bureau of Prisons estimates it will have a 36,000 bed shortfall by 2010, partly due to this trend.
…These numbers may not seem like much. But it’s a big deal for the tiny private prison sector, which houses only around 7% of the 2.1 million people in prison in the United States.
To see why, let’s take a closer look at some numbers. The two federal agencies, ICE and FBP, will need 76,000 new prison slots over the next five years. That alone is more than the number of beds now run by the biggest private prison company, Corrections Corp., which houses about 70,000 inmates. And it doesn’t even include increases in demand expected at the state level.
Where is Sensenbrenner’s prison and security stock? Whose bed is he hiding them under?
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