Chapter 848 Adjustment of C4S

At the same time, this year is the election year in the United States. Obama is still seeking re-election, while the Elephant Party needs to decide on a candidate internally...

The relationship between the United States and Pakistan has also become a hot foreign policy issue in the US election, and the outspoken remarks of the Elephant Party candidate have further widened the differences between the two countries.

In addition, the United States has also promised to seek a closer partnership with India, which has further angered Pakistan.

According to the plan, in 2012, Afghan forces will gradually take over the country's security affairs, and Afghanistan will face a difficult period.

Affected by the global economic crisis, Afghanistan will not be able to obtain economic and military assistance and financial support in the future.

In May this year, NATO will hold a summit in Chicago. At this meeting, the United States did not win much international support for Afghanistan.

As a result, the United States decided to withdraw some troops from Afghanistan first-this triggered the acceleration of NATO's withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Unlike Iraq, there are not many security needs for American and European companies in Afghanistan. Before this, the business of Protector Military Services in Afghanistan was mainly to help local troops and police with training and to help defend some important areas.

Under the current trend of withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, the number of personnel they have invested in Afghanistan will also begin to decrease.

Therefore, a considerable number of personnel withdrawn from Afghanistan can arrive in London and join the security of the Olympics.

By the end of June, G4S finally completed the training of nearly 8,000 security personnel. In the next less than a month, more than 2,000 personnel will arrive in London and join the security of the Olympics after corresponding training.

Another thing that will be adjusted for G4S is their "correctional services business", which is to say, the contracting business of private prisons.

Many Western countries, including Britain and the United States, have private prisons - private companies take over the government's business of guarding prisoners and operating prisons.

And these businesses are still very "money-making"!

Today, there are three giants in the private prison industry in the United States - CCA, GEO and MTC. These three companies own more than 200 prisons in the United States and hold more than 8% of American prisoners.

Among them, CCA and GEO are even listed companies...

It is worth mentioning that the GEO Correctional Group was originally established by spinning off the North American correctional business of G4S. C4S still holds some shares of the GEO Correctional Group.

In fact, the profit-making method of these private prisons is not complicated. Simply put, it is "both ends" - one hand receives government subsidies, and the other hand squeezes prisoners.

On the government side, private prisons are generally allocated funds per person.

For example, in CCA's private prison, for every prisoner sent in, he can get a government subsidy of US$58 per person per day.

Minus the operating costs of the prison, not counting the labor output of the prisoners, CCA can still earn US$18 from each prisoner every day.

However, even so, the government is willing to subsidize.

On the one hand, it is because of the nepotism between officials and businessmen; on the other hand, if the management model of public prisons is followed, the cost will be much higher than the 58 US dollars.

But why are private prisons like CCA so cheap?

Obviously, increasing profits and reducing costs are the most basic requirements.

First of all, the salaries of employees in private prisons are generally about a quarter lower than those of public prison guards, almost close to the statutory minimum wage standards of each state.

However, low employee salaries are not the main reason.

The profit magic weapon of these private prisons is to get as much money as possible from prisoners.

They have certain requirements for prisoners assigned by the government - they must not have major diseases and strong violent tendencies...

In other words, they must ensure that the prisoners have full labor capacity.

In addition, the wages they pay to prisoners are extremely low, but the intensity and duration of work are much higher than those of workers in the free world - there are no labor unions in prisons anyway, let alone any insurance or benefits, so let them go.

In private prisons, the average prisoner earns 17 cents per hour, and even prisoners who can hold "high-tech positions" can only earn 50 cents per hour at most.

In general, prisoners in public prisons can earn an average of $1.25 per hour, and they are basically able to send money home every month.

As for prisoners in private prisons, let alone sending money home, their wages are difficult to even support themselves.

In prisons under CCA, the price of a cigarette is $1.5 - this means that these prisoners need to work 3-10 hours to get a cigarette.

In addition, CCA has also established a partnership with the "Global Call" company - this company specializes in transferring "prison hotlines", which is actually responsible for connecting prisoners with relatives and friends outside the prison.

According to their charging standards, calls are charged at $1.2 per minute, and video calls are charged at $1.5 per minute.

As mentioned earlier, if a prisoner works 8 hours a day at the highest wage standard, his daily salary is only enough to call his family to report safety.

This is assuming that the prisoners are not further exploited by the "prison bullies".

In Barron's previous life, Frederic Pierucci, the vice president of international sales of Alstom, France, was thrown into a prison managed by CCA by the FBI. Afterwards, he took the initiative to disclose that "dark" experience to the media:

"In prison, nothing is free. You have to buy a plastic cup to drink water. There is a TV, but it is silent. You have to buy headphones to hear the sound. The three meals a day are very simple, two slices of bread and a portion of unknown paste, tasteless, odorless, and the cost will never exceed $1..."

Of course, if the prisoners want to improve their treatment, it is not impossible, just pay more.

In public prisons in Europe and the United States, prison guards take money to do things, which is called bribery, which is illegal.

In private prisons, almost everything here is publicly marked with a price.

For example, if you don't like living in a multi-person cell, you can buy a "package" of $82 a day - get a double cell and be exempt from labor.

You can even pay to change your roommate, or change to a single room - $100 a day, where there are hotel-like bedding, prisoners who are exempted from labor can also use computers and TVs, hot water is available 24 hours a day, and if you don't want to go out to eat, your customized daily meals will be delivered by a special person.

Except that you can't leave the yard at will, this is almost the same as going on vacation in a hotel.

For those wealthy VIP users, it is not impossible to enjoy some special door-to-door services as long as the money is in place...