coming up coming up after the break the corrections corporation of america wants to buy your state prisons well this for profit corporation be lobbying to make it legal or illegal so you can be tossed in the slammer increase their revenues. thank you. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old and don't you tell the truth. i have a confession i am a total get a friend that i love grabbing hip hop music and. he was kind of a yesterday. i'm very proud of the world without you see his place. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome is a big issue. in screw news corporate america's high crimes plunged our nation into a great recession in two thousand and eight pushing several states to the brink of bankruptcy today and now they're back looking to turn a profit off the damage they caused and the corrections corporation of america the largest for profit prison company in the nation c

coming up coming up after the break the corrections corporation of america wants to buy your state prisons well this for profit corporation be lobbying to make legal or illegal so you can be tossed in the slammer increase their revenues. thank you. resistance is not politics but a culture of. this could. cultures of resistance are to. the lose. of the. science technology innovation all the rest of melanin spun around russia we've dumped those huge earth covered. in screw news corporate america's high crimes plunged our nation into a great recession two thousand and eight pushing several states to the brink of bankruptcy today and now they're back looking to turn a profit off the damage they caused and the corrections corporation of america. the largest for profit prison company in the nation c.c.a. is now reaching out to cash strapped states hoping to make a deal basically c.c.a. is saying sell is your state prisons and we'll take over the job of incarcerating your citizens why would c.c.a. want to do that because they want to sort of profit off each new person who gets thrown in prison in

function again could prove almost impossible so they might well have to let a group like corrections corporation get away with almost anything rather than undertake the expense of taking the reins back now this part about the prisons having to be at ninety percent a guarantee that they'll be ninety percent all just seems absolutely crazy to me right i mean how can you possibly guarantee that you're going to have enough criminals and last i guess does this mean that the local law enforcement agencies are going to have to start having quote as i mean can you just imagine how many ways this can go wrong when you guarantee to fill up prisons yeah well it's first of all i mean it runs entirely counter to what should be the government interest in incarcerating its citizens here we want a government that's going to work towards lowering incarceration rates less crime less people serving time more people who do serve time rehabilitated so that they don't become recidivists or middle. we want those jails to empty out and that makes for a difficult business proposition if you're trying to privatized these

to me to be one of the more ambitious endeavors i've ever seen can you tell us more about corrections corporation of america i mean how is it that they became the largest company in this for profit prison industry that is cash and the right time. well it's an extremely lucrative business and as you said the offer that they make is very tempting especially now this particular robber that they've made but the business model essentially is based on you know the very largely republican and conservative idea that almost anything can be outsourced even things that used to be considered core government functions like imprisoning so in your society you know that that's something that i think is fairly new but yet they've made it a real killing in trying to take these problematic areas off the hands of state governments which are facing budget crises everywhere and in some cases these are manufactured budget crises and in some cases manufactured so that they can pass measures that are ostensibly for cost savings that essentially just outsource government functions to private industries very often private

the corrections corporation of america this large for profit prison corporation has worked with now it for twenty years to privatized prisons in states across the country and also to basically put more people in jail then they were behind a three strikes push throughout the ninety's that led to really mass incarceration from places like california they've also been pushing drug laws that have put more people in prison where it sounds i mean again this this sounds pretty shocking how how does this actually work i mean is this a dark room or you know bunch of people smoking cigars sit down and literally write bills is a bad day i don't know corporate interests trying to sort of hob nob and have drinks with lawmakers and suggest legislate legislative path i mean how does it physically play out. well you know it's kind of an honest scratch crap system because it's a little bit of both what you describe are big conventions sponsored by alec and you know they're publicized they aren't a secret but they do kick out journalists you know i've attended some of these events and in recent years as

zero group and like corrections corporation of america which is the country's largest private prison operator are these there is a group of business now businesses that are multi their multibillion dollar businesses that operate various prisons around the country some of these prisons are to macarthur to basically how federal and state prisoners and those are contracts that are given to them by by the state government or by the federal government and but they are you know the money that they make the population to make the most money from is immigration detention they actually private prisons how about fifty percent. of immigrants if it were detained in the country so that about that mean that includes hundreds of thousands of people just this year if you think about it hundreds of last year almost four hundred thousand immigrants were deported before the deported or detained so that basically each prisoner the detainees give money is money from the government from taxpayer money to these private prison entities. now in a in in terms of these banks that bank well then these are inves

just stealing our money they're also stealing our commons corporations like the corporations corrections corporation of america conning state governments and is selling off public prisons to be run for profit costing taxpayers far more money in the long run and while they're at it they're stealing our freedom as those same for profit prison corporations for example support candidates who push for harsher and harsher drug and other laws that throw more and more americans into prison making the c.e.o.'s more and more money while devastating the working class as a result america now has the highest incarceration rate in the entire world both per capita and in absolute numbers on top of that michigan governor rick snyder who was all like that with a little help from millionaires and billionaires signed a financial manager law last year that allows a quota is to collect a quarter million bucks to take control of a city and sell off its commons like public parks and utilities to corporate interests at fire sale prices they're also stealing our right to democratize the workplace through unions since one th

industries working against marijuana legalization i see the private prison industry like the corrections corporation of america which you know goes to these alec junkets and write legislation to make harsher drug penalties so that people get thrown in prison because they turn a profit off every person that sort of person they also see alcohol and tobacco companies who you know don't want the competition. just how powerful are they in this fight in the how do we push back against them really. they're powerful probably more powerful because law enforcement benefits directly they're basically the more the more people they arrest for marijuana the more federal money they get and so they have a strong incentive and so just a level you see the private prisons and law enforcement and then also the prison guard unions you know in california the most jobs yeah they need that they need to jobs and so it is about largely about money and it's almost entirely about money we have the highest prison in the world. we spend a lot of money on this drug war tons of money what we hear all this talk about the deficit yo

organization comprised of state legislators and powerful multinational corporations including the corrections corporation of america so who are these guys and talk more broadly about the symbolism of groups like this and their role in u.s. politics. well there's a trade organization comprised of some of the largest companies in america and what they basically act as is more or less word to shadow government they set up legislation to be distributed to corrupt lawmakers across the country so that you see this seem entirely worker anti consumer bills coming up in state after state the basic fact is some of these corrupt politicians believe in outsourcing so much they outsource their own stupid ideas and it's not a democracy if it doesn't matter who i vote for are going to get the same special interest written legislation of matter who ends up in office how can we possibly call this freedom how can we call democracy so i think that really strikes at the heart of what odds by wall street is talking about as well as millions of other people in america russia syria around the world the idea that bridge working

he is accused of killing corrections officer corporal mcgwinn. kuli if convicted, stevens faces the death penalty. police are asking for help finding the man they're robbed two met -- attacked two women in rolen park. the two women were leaving the pitied louis restaurant. the suspect approached them, threatened to shoot them, and struggled with one woman and made off with her purse. we're told the owners of the property are planning to install additional lighting in the area. police ask anybody who sees suspicious activity to contact them immediately. your property taxes are likely about to go down, but experts say that it is only because property assessments are also declining. property values in most towns dropped by nearly 20% in the past three years. councilman carl stokes served as the chair of the tax and finance committee. representatives explained the process behind the numbers to concerned residents. >> so the assessment determines these values based on the sales that occurred from january to september 30. >> officials say there is an a

arundel county jury found 32-year-old lee stephens guilty in the 2006 stabbing death of corrections officer corporal david mcguinn. the conviction makes him the first to be eligible for the death penalty. the new rules preserve the death penalty only in circumstances where there is a videotaped confession, a video linking the suspect to the scene, or dna tying the defendant to the crime. the biological evidence in this case is the victim's blood. ironically, the conviction comes on the same day that as many as 65 delegates in the house co- sponsored a deal -- a bill to repeal the death penalty. >> we would put money into victim services by some of the money saved by not having the death penalty. >> legislation leaves the likelihood of -- is once again stirring debate at the state house. >> if we take that off the table, we will lose that ability to bargain with people. >> supporters argue the time is right because there is already a de facto moratorium on capital punishment. state officials still have not decided what chemicals to use in lethal injections. last year there was a nationwide shortage i

. >> corrections corporation of america, that is the nation's largest operator for-profit prisons hasent a letter to 48 states offering to buy up their burdens to help ease the burden of, quote, easing challenging budgets. what do you make of that offer? >> it's an offer we considered. but then when you look at what the function of -- important function of government, which is public safety, and exactly how poorly these private corporations have done in our county jails, we decided as a group -- i mean, it was a tight vote but it was a coalition of organized labor and faith-based organizations, and the correctional officers themselves which came to the state capital to tell us exactly what an impact it would be to them and to their families, that we hung together as a group and we fought it down. >> senator sachs, thanks for your time this morning. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> absolutely. >>> rick santorum is gaining ground in the race for the republican nomination, even possibly taking the lead from mitt romney. but are some of santorum's views too extreme for the right mainstre

commissioner riley: anyone could apply to be of benefit corporation? >> correct. after that, they have to produce a material positive impact on the environment. commissioner riley: that there is the standard measure for that? gosh no, there is a third party standard that meets the definition of the legislation. they must measure that against using that third-party standard, so that as the transparency element. rather than simply having you write your own annual report, you're using it against a third party standard of a valuation so that the consumer and the shareholder can see what you're doing. commissioner riley: is this a pretty new concept? >> yes, january 3 was the first application of this legislation. commissioner clyde: i want to thank you for your presentation, and i also want to say that

deliberations a jury convicts an inmate of purderiig a corrections officer.lee edward stephens was found guilty of ffrst degree urder in the stabbing death of corporal david mcguinn at the maryland hoose of correction in 2206.stephens could get the death penaaty when he's sentenced nnxt week. police are looking for a man they say burglarized two hooes in baltimmre ounty.20 year old alvin thompson is linked to burgllriis in white marsh and towson.they ay he took the stolen goods to area paww shops. be drrving a 19-98 lincoln to similar to the one you sse here.license ppate number 1-a-2--7-0-7.call police if you have any nformation. two tennessee men are ccused of killing a couple over a facebook dispute.jamey curd and marvin potter face firrt degree murder chhrggs in the shooting deaths f a an and hii girlfriend.police say pooter was angry after the couple de-friended his 30-year old daughter on facebook. the coople's hhuse and shot them.the couple's baby... wass still cradled in its other'ss arms. an army private accused f leaking classifiid material to the anti--ecrecy website wikileaks will beebacc in a military courtroom for an the arraignment fo

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corrections officer in ann arund-- murdering a corrections officer in anne arundel county could find out his fate. a jury found lee stevens guilty of stabbing death of corporal mcgwen at a closed maryland house of corrections in 2006. >>> an update on the har forecounty teen -- harford county teen suspect in his father's murder. he has been indicted by a grand jury of charges of first and second degree murder. he will remain behind bars wound bond. >>> at nine this morning testimony resumes in the yeardley love murder trial after a week and 40 witnesses, the prosecution is nearing the end of the presidential and george huguely is accused of murdering. christian schaeffer tells us what to expect later today in court and has been there reporting all week from charlottesville. >> reporter: after a nearly full week of testimony from the prosecution witnesses we could hear the defense's case today. in court we have seen the large hole in the bedroom door and now a dna expert testified that hairs found on that door match george huguely's dna profile. she testified that huguely's blood was found under love's fingernails. earlier a toxicologist said love's blood alc

corrections officer. lee stephens was down guilty of first-degree murder of corporal david mcguinn. the conviction makes stevens eligible for the death penalty. sentencing is set for next week. >> testimony continues today and the trial of george huguely, accused of killing yeardley love. first responders called to the stand described a chaotic and bloody crime scene and the jury got a firsthand look at some of that evidence. lowell melser has the latest from charlottesville, virginia. >> another day of reckoning testimony. not only did the jury get a chance to see some of the most graphic pictures available in the case, but former teammates of george huguely testified that he was getting drunk more than four times a week during his senior year, and they were getting worried about him. so much so that they wanted to call an intervention. the day after making this thought, yeardley love was found dead and huguely was arrested. more tough testimony for yeardley love's family and friends expect as rescue personnel broke down the crime scene in morning testimony. it was the first time t

he is accused of murdering a corporal, a guard on duty at the maryland house of correction in 2006. stevens was incarcerated there at the time on a murder charge. another prisoner is also charged. yet the competency hearing scheduled for april. lawyers spratt doug stevens trial with closing arguments wednesday morning. -- lawyers wrapped up steven straw with closing arguments wednesday morning. both sides agreed it was brutal and. this -- and senseless. the guard was stabbed 12 times, some of the wounds from behind. the prosecutor said it showed that they sneaked up on him. one witness said stevens was one of those who attacked the guard. the defense said they were too far away and it was too dark to identify the attackers. evidence found in stevens sell and his boxers he was wearing that night all had the gartz blood on him. -- all have the guard's blood on them. the defense claims the evidence was contaminated. the jury has asked to see evidence again, but otherwise, no word from the jury. the jury will be back deliberating at 9:00 a.m. monday morning. >> the feds have cleared a m

correct. we've got to get the corporate tax rate more competitive on a global scale.on't want to get in the weeds as to which particular one is better than the other. they're both directionally correct. >> but when i look at the corporate tax rates around the world, we have a little graphic of this, i'll throw it up. >> we say united states is at 35%, france is at 34%, belgium at 33%, spain at 30%, japan at 30%, mexico at 30%. it sounds like we're kind of competitive, right? >> well, i think we would be a lot better off if we get ourselves to a terry to recall tax like can at that and other places. >> there was lots of uproar about ge's tax bill. the company, ge they're talking about, reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the u.s. its american tax bill, none. ge claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion. so i think it's hard for people who are not, you know, tax attorneys to understand how a major company can make $5.1 billion here in the united states and then get a really large tax benefit at the end o

correctional officer to death. it was july 2006, when 42-year- old corporal david mcginn's blood was splattered over the house of correction in jessop. >> it saddens us to have to stand and say that we told you so. >> reporter: violence has plagued the facility for years. and they were driven to shut it down in 2007. prosecutors say stevens, then this man, lamarque harris, organized an attack with a home made knife because he was a by- the-book guard who got in their way. they showed graphic evidence. a tin cup, covered in mcginn's blood, found in stevens bin. >> prosecutors each brought in met -- even brought in metal bars to show how easy it was to jam the locks and get out. but stevens' lawyer argued it could have been any of the inmates nearby and said the blood ended up on serl people. he said -- several people. he said it was chaos, a contaminated crime scene and contaminated investigation. >> reporter: the judge issued a gag order. so family members are not even allowed to talk until it is over. reporting live from annapolis, weijia jiang. >> harris, the codefendant, was found not competent to stand trial. he'll hav

jurors found him guilty last thursday of killing a corporal at the maryland house of corrections in july2006. >> it has been almost six years since this tragic event occurred. we just wanted as a union to represent the officers, to make sure we are able to see this come to a conclusion in deference to the families and the unions -- and the communities they lived in. none of us had any doubt that this individual was going to be found guilty. all the evidence that was out there -- is just, why did it take so long? >> death penalty cases usually take a long time. there are numerous pre-trial motions, and in this case, some of the issues went to the appellate court to be settled. stevens was convicted of sneaking out of his self and stabbing the officer more than a dozen times. lamar harris was also accused of participating in the crime. blood and dna evidence linked stevens with the murder. blood was found on his boots, a t-shirt and boxer shorts. the prosecutor asked, do we have enough certainty to consider the death penalty? no one saw this from a close distance. no one believes the light

correct in fact i think that if the supreme court rules in their favor it will encourage corporations to go in especially those that are extracting resources like oil or mining they will go and seek out regimes where they don't have to worry about human rights violations because those regimes can then take care of environmental protesters or people who stand up to them i mean look at the shell case in nigeria we're talking about medical doctors and activists who stood up to shells environmental degradation in their human rights violations and they were murdered state sanctioned murder for this and what's interesting liz is that this reveals that this is not a particularly unusual pattern here we see a lot of corporations and gauging in this behavior anough so that we can we can talk about at least a dozen cases previously so carolina we had citizens united now this is this yet another example of corporations and their overwhelming power growing power of government and politics here in the u.s. absolutely i mean we have the best government that corporations can buy at this point we see

has determined that an inmate convicted of killing a corrections officer is eligible for the death penalty. he was found guilty of stabbing a corporal back in 2006. he qualifies to face death under maryland law because biological evidence clinton to the crime and he was principally responsible -- linked him to the crime and he was principally responsible for the murder. he could be sentenced to death or life in prison without the possibility of parole. >> hundreds of people are expected to gather tonight in annapolis to show their support for the same-sex marriage bill. they are being encouraged to lobby lawmakers for passage of the bill. >> today's rally follows a marathon hearing friday on the governor's bill, the same joint committee that heard the governor's bill also heard legislation calling for a constitutional amendment defining marriage between one man and one woman. rally organizers called this lobby day in annapolis in support of two bills, the religious freedom and protection act, otherwise known as the same sex bill, and the gender discrimination act. they collected some 15,000 postcards and planned to distribute them t

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corporations. it's also very correct in order to bring multi-national companies to the united states to have a loweromic move, as much as i would love to trash him for it i can't do it it's a good thing and the right move. >> maria? >> i agree with boris. >> hey, excitement! >> he's not looking at this from the standpoint of politics. he's looking to do what is right for small businesses and small and middle class families. he's focusing on giving them the tools to continue to rise in this fragile recovery, to make sure that everybody plays by the rules, to make sure that we are competitive to give incentives to manufacturing companies, to keep jobs here instead of putting them overseas and to make sure that oil and gas companies don't continue to have -- >> i disagree on the last part. >> step in, jason. >> it's simple. at this point he's running up the score. he has gotten up employment down to 8.3%. rick santorum fading, mitt romney fade, he will hand out bread and butter to everybody. this is good strategy for him. what it will do to the economy, we have to see what happens in europe. we have to

corrections officer in jesup. both sides delivered closing arguments today in the murder trial of the corporal. prosecutors claim 32-year-old lee stevens and another inmate cornered him and stabbed him to death. if convicted, stevens faces the death penalty. a presidential historian from the york accused of stealing documents from the maryland historical society and other institutions is expected to enter a new plea. barry landau is expected to be arraigned in federal count downtown. he pleaded not guilty to stealing documents from the maryland historical society last summer. landau is now expected to plead guilty. prosecutors say he and an assistant have about a presidential hard facts. the assistant also originally pleaded not guilty and changed his plea in october. earlier today, the governor delivered his annual state of the state address in annapolis. he called on the general assembly to pass his legislative agenda, much of which will impact the wallets of state residents. david collins has more on the speech. [applause] >> governor martin o'malley unveiled an expansive agenda, wrapped aro

eventually i believe the workers will revolt in this country, but how can we incentivize the corporations to correct the problem themselves without the government's interference, which i think will only make the problem worse. >> so here is my thought, and i kind of agree with the suggestion.

how can we incentivize the corporations to correct the problems themselves, without government interference which i think will only make the problem worse? guest: here is my thought. i kind of agree with the suggestion that you do not want the government deciding how much tim cook could make. if it $40,000 an hour, how many people do we employ in the department of commerce to figure that out? not sure we can do that. instead of a non-binding say on page, perhaps we have a shareholders' vote. it is their money that tim cook is getting. perhaps we said, only an executive getting $5 million or more, that has to pass a shareholder vote. if the shareholders want to say yes, that is fine. it is their store. we see an awful lot of companies saying, if we give them $5 million, we have to go to a vote. something tells me he is worth 4.9. it is not the government setting the limit. it is just if you go above a reasonable -- still very rich -- then you need some kind of approval. some system where the shareholders have some say. host: john is an independent from massachusetts. caller: why don't we jus

in 2006, stevens fatally stabbed 42-year-old corporal david mcginn inside the now closed marylandrous of correction in jessop. he was working as an officer at the time stevens was serving as a life sentence for murder. he could be the first person to receive the death penalty under maryland's new and more rigid capital punishment law implemented in 2009. jurors could also hand down a penalty of life in prison without parole. he could. the judge denied the request. >> reporter: the jury wrapped up and went home. they'll be back at 9:00 in the morning. reporting live, weijia jiang, wjz eyewitness news. >> a hearing to determine if he's competent to stand trial. >>> notre dame university is getting its first male president, james connelly has been selected to lead the catholic women's college. the board of trustees says he is the best candidate to replace retiring president mary pat surcamp. he worked most recently at eastern kentucky university. >>> if you're waiting for someone to get home from work, let's check in on the roads now with kristy breslin. >>> things could get just a tad bit tricky if y

reporter: the same jury found stevens guilty of murdering 42-year-old corporal david mcgirn inside the now closed house of corrections in jessop. stevens was serving a life sentence for another murder. >> reporter: stevens is a landmark case. for the first time ever, prosecutors used a dna link to pursue the death penalty. under maryland's new and more stringent capital punishment law. >> the first case is always important. and is always going to be something that goes to court. and lawyers are going to look to set a baseline. >> reporter: since 2009, the state can only seek a death sentence in first-degree murder cases that have biological or dna evidence. a video recording of the crime or a videotaped confession. mcgwynn's blood was found splattered on stevens' clothing, shoes and cell bars. still, the sentencing process is a meticulous one. this is the very thing jurors are working on now. they have to balance the crime against a long list of mitigating circumstances. like whether they acted under duress. there is also space to right in -- write in their own. >> and in maryland, the only time a jury can hand down