At midnight in August in 1997, Walter Hazelwood and Richard Wilson escaped the barbed wired walls of the Houston Processing Center which held illegal immigrants. After beating a guard, they drove off in his car towards Dallas. Later when prison officials notified the Police of the escape, much to the shock of the local authorities it was found that both men were prison for charges of sexual abuse. It later learned by the local authorities that both men had been shipped to Texas detention centre among the 240 sex offenders.
The immigration center is operated by Corrections Corporation of America. It is the same company which enjoys almost a monopoly power in managing private prison. CCA makes $14,000 per day managing out-of-state inmates. Regarding this incident the company defended itself by declaring that it had no legal obligation to inform the police about two unidentified prisoners from Oregon. Yet this company expected that the Texas Police should have noticed the missing prisoners and that it was the job of the police to capture them and bring them back to the company owned prison.
However, even when the police was able to track the prisoners and capture them they found it hard to charge them of a crime. They could not punish them for escaping just like a police cannot arrest a worker for walking off from his job. The legal system did not consider escaping a private corporation a crime.
Imprisonment of prison system under a privatized system poses difficulties and raises many questions. The occupation of prison in the private sector has always been considered lies feasible with respect to criminalization and punishment such as taking away physical liberty and or life of the prisoner. The arguments provided are of varying nature some are based on ethical consideration, some........
