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Corporation. mtc brags on being the third largest private prison company in the country. mtc, like many private prison companies, has a bit of a checkered past. in the late 1990s, the company, which is based in utah, brought on an executive named lane mccotter. mr. mccotter took the job at mtc after having resigned, quite recently, as the top prison official for the state of utah. he resigned in the wake of a particularly brutal scandal involving a mentally ill man dying in custody after he was strapped into a restraint chair for 16 hours. now. mtc at that time, management and training corpora...

Trailer. what do you have for us, george? >> things are pretty much normal there in yellowstone. they are warning visitors to the park if they see anyone who looks like the suspects, don't approach them. call police immediately. meanwhile, hundreds of law enforcement officers throughout the west are on the lookout for the two guys and the woman who allegedly helped them escape from prison. they were in a medium security prison. these are two men with very violent pasts. why they were in a medium-security prison is anyone's guess, by apparently according to police the woman helped them by throw...

After this incredible record of achievement, afty all of these prison escapes from private prisons, how did the state of arizona decide to proceed with the issue of prison privatization? even as prison privatization declines around the country, even as state budget cuts make it so that many states are closing facilities or reducing their sentencing guidelines, so that fewer people are in prison altogether, how did the state of arizona decide to proceed? last year arizona state officials moved legislation to try to privatize the whole state prison system. arizona planned to "seek bids from pri...

Appeared to notice that alarm. let alone react to it. the alarm just went off and staff just ignored it. so the dudes walked through the fence they just cut, they got in the car, and they drove off. no one at the prison noticed the hole in the fence or the alarm going off or the car that drove up to the fence that was visible on the security cameras or that the three prisoners were missing until 9:00 p.m. that night, five hours after these three prisoners were last seen by prison staff. after the prison realized that it had had three of its prisoners escape, they waited more than an hour befor...