Straight Goods - Marc Emery: serving time in the US prison system

Straight Goods - Marc Emery: serving time in the US prison system

All Americans are housed in BOP facilities under policy and procedure established by the Department of Justice. All foreigners are housed in for-profit, private prisons (usually Corrections Corp. of America and Geo Group) that do not have to adhere to BOP policy and procedure.Until 2009, Canadians were often sent to mixed nationality BOP facilities. Due to overcrowding, BOP facilities are now exclusively housing American inmates, while all Mexican, Canadian, Latin American, Caribbean, European, Asian, and African nationals are placed in the expanding gulag of "deportable alien" federal prisons run by GEO or CCA.GEO Group received 2,500,000,000 dollars (yes two and a half billion dollars) of US taxpayer money to run state, county and federal prisons in 2010 alone! GEO received $52,400,000 for one year to run D Ray James. That's $1,008,000 a week!Americans incarcerated in the Canadian federal prison system are treated no differently nor are they segregated within the Canadian system. That is absolutely not the case here. Canadians are housed in a vastly lower standard than Americans sentenced for the identical offense.When Canadians are extradited to the US, the natural but erroneous assumption is that he or she will be afforded the same conditions as any American sentenced in a US court.The Department of Justice Statement of Principles says that no discrimination based on National Origin takes place within the Bureau of Prisons: