FBI BAGS CORRUPT PRIVATE PRISON OPERATIVE

      During the era of the Deep State, government officials often passed exclusive contracts for public services onto shady contractors---typically someone politically connected to them. State and Federal correctional facilities were especially vulnerable to this predatory practice.

       The FBI announced today that Eric Kindley, head of a prison-transport company operating in California and Arizona, was indicted today for raping three female prisoners at gunpoint on three separate occasions. The FBI is investigating whether other assaults may have taken place.

      According to the indictment, Kindley would restrain his victims, drive to a secluded location and rape them. Not only did he threaten them with a firearm; he threatened them with consequences if they exposed what he had done. If convicted, Kindley faces a life sentence.

     Kindley and his business practices have had a longstanding and dubious reputation. This naturally didn't prevent equally dubious bureaucrats from 'outsourcing' to him. In 2010, an employee of Kindley's was also arrested by the FBI for raping a female prisoner. In 2008, Kindley was indicted for illegally ordering an employee to take a firearm on an airplane, but was acquitted.

     During the Obama Administration, former DOJ head Loretta Lynch was summoned before Congress and questioned about abuses in the prison-transport industry. Under Lynch's term alone, five inmates died during transport in private company services. In 2000, Congress passed a law regulating these companies; but the Deep State recorded only one enforcement action until this year.

      The Trump Administration, however, has taken a different approach. Kindley was initially arrested as part of probe initiated by Jeff Sessions on the conditions of private transportation services.

       Although our government has always done business with private contractors, the outsourcing of essential government services is a recent innovation and not even a Conservative policy at all. It was promoted heavily by the Clinton Administration as a 'Government-Business Partnership' in which for-profit companies carried out government policies. This is actually a species of economic Fascism and not market-based competitive contracting---as our government has traditionally done. The Neocons and the Swamp-RINOs in the Bush Administration expanded the policy exponentially. Obama even brought non-profits and NGOs into the equation.

       President Trump hasn't expressed a position on outsourcing correctional programs, but his tendency seems to be to restore these positions to the public sector---where they actually belong. So far his financial allocations to state and local law enforcement have been almost exclusively geared to enhancing the public sector. This is how it should be. The reason that this is the Conservative position is because law enforcement and corrections need to be held accountable to the public and be transparent. For-profit companies and NGOs cannot provide this kind of public oversight. Not to mention that accountability to shareholders and to taxpayers are two entirely different things.

       Government contracting to profit-driven companies has its place in a Free Market; but convicts are legally speaking wards of the State. Thus the State has a fiduciary and legal responsibility for them. Those of the Kindley stripe, obviously care little for that.