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Profiteering from misery: Alaskan Natives' private migrant prison for
profit is disturbing trend in violation of the traditional teachings
of Native Americans




TUCSON -- Native Americans say the disturbing trend of profiteering
from foul and abusive private migrant prisons by American Indian
Nations violates traditional teachings to honor the sacredness of life
and all humanity.
The San Xavier District of the Tohono O'odham Nation has planned a
migrant prison in secret for years. Recently, outcry from neighbors at
Sahuarita, Ariz., halted the plan. However, a second site selected in
secret is east of Three Points, Ariz. and has not been made public.


Mike Wilson, Tohono O'odham who puts out water for migrants against
the wishes of the Tohono O'odham government, is among those opposing
the migrant prison.
"The Tohono O'odham Nation is anxious to take blood money from the
Department of Homeland Security. Shamefully, we who were once
oppressed are now the willing oppressors," Wilson said.

The residents of Sahuarita and city officials of the City of Green
Valley, including the mayor, were opposed to the prison. David Garcia
and Wilson, both Tohono O'odham, met officials at the Pima County
Board of Supervisors meeting on May 12, 2009 and opposed the prison.

Jose Matus, Yaqui and director of the Indigenous Alliance without
Borders/Alianza Indigena sin Fronteras, points out that many of those
arrested by the US Border Patrol, and dying in the Sonoran Desert, are
Indigenous Peoples from southern Mexico and Central America. They are
desperate for food and jobs after being forced off their lands by
multi-national corporations. An increasing number of the dead are
Mayan women, walking with their children.

Meanwhile in Montana, the private security firm American Police Force
is under a state Attorney General's probe, after masquerading as the
police force in Hardin, Montana, a town with a long history of racism
and attacks on American Indians. American Police Force is linked to
Texas-based CorPlan Corrections, which is pitching the private prison
to Tohono O'odham and other Indian Nations.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney was indicted in Texas for prison
profiteering. Cheney invested in the Vanguard Group, which profits
from private prison contractor GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut, which
split into GEO and Wackenhut Transportation.)

The Vanguard Group reported $1.24 trillion in assets, in mutual funds,
in 2009, with global offices, including offices in Scottsdale, Arizona
and Valley Forge, Penn. Vanguard Group is among the top investors in
Corrections Corporations of America, CCA, operating private prisons in
Arizona and throughout the United States.

Wackenhut Transportation, owned by G4S, currently has a contract to
transport detained and arrested migrants in buses at the Arizona
border. The buses constantly flow from the border to Tucson. Aso, at
the Arizona border, Elbit Systems, the Israeli contractor of the
Palestine Apartheid Border, was subcontracted by the border wall
profiteer Boeing for spy apparatus on the Arizona border.

In another twist, there's an Israeli/US border prison connection. US
based Emerald Corrections was granted a prison contract in Israel.
Israel’s government awarded a 22year contract to a consortium of
Africa-Israel Investments, Minrav Holdings Ltd and Emerald
Correctional Management to finance, design, build and operate the
country’s first private prison at Be’er Sheva in 2005. Emerald
operates the prison at San Luis, Arizona, on the US/Mexico border and
others in Texas.

Private prisons, packed with migrants, were quickly built in Texas and
along the Southwest border during the Bush administration. American
Indians are imprisoned at a disproportionate rate in prisons and
receive longer prison terms than non-Indians, according to the ACLU.
While the abuses in private prisons continue, Cheney has not been
prosecuted.
Already, Alaskan Natives are in the private prison profiteering
business, according to New York Times, citing the abuses today from a
filed complaint of a migrant detention center in New York. Mildew,
frigid temperatures and hunger were repeated complaints.
"In vivid if flawed English, it described cramped, filthy quarters
where dire medical needs were ignored and hungry prisoners were put to
work for $1 a day," New York Times reported.
A subsidiary of Ahtna Inc., an Alaska Native regional corporation,
Ahtna Technical Services Inc., operates the Varick Street Detention
Facility with the help of a Texas subcontractor.

Ben Carnes, Choctaw prison rights activist, was surprised by the news
of Native-run prisons. "Wow. I always thought that if the First
Nations were in the prison industry, they would manage it as a
positive advancement in corrections, instead of just another stinking
jail."

After viewing a photo of an outdoor migrant detention center on the
Tohono O'odham Nation, often described as "The Cage," Carnes said,
"The people cannot keep ignoring how the US imposed tribal council
system is operating before they end up in those dog cages!"
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