http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/21/958745/-Michigan-emergency-manager-law-could-bring-privatizedjailsMon Mar 21, 2011 at 10:20 PM EDT
Michigan emergency manager law could bring privatized jails
by Joan McCarter for Daily Kos
Taking a page from Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has made privatizing the state's prison system
that much easier.
In addition to allowing previously negotiated union contracts to be voided, Michigan’s new Emergency Manager law gives appointees the authority to privatize police services and jails.
Indeed, voiding labor contracts and outsourcing government services is a key aspect of how they are expected to balance the budgets of financially stressed towns.
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It might not result in significant public savings, but it does result in putting more public employees out of work, making it that much easier to break those unions. And in the case of Brewer, it also makes lucrative political sense. And not surprisingly, the same major lobbying organization behind the blueprint for Arizona, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is
behind Snyder. What is
ALEC?
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