Rebirth of England.

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

U.S.-Pakistan relations have also become a hot foreign policy issue in the U.S. presidential election, with the outspoken remarks of the Elephant Party candidate further widening the differences between the two countries.

In addition, the United States has also pledged 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, it will be less easy for Afghanistan to obtain economic and military assistance and financial support in the future.

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

This led to the United States deciding to withdraw part of its troops from Afghanistan first - which triggered an acceleration of NATO's withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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

Amid the current trend of withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, the number of personnel they deploy in Afghanistan will also begin to decrease.

As a result, a considerable number of personnel evacuated from Afghanistan were able to arrive in London and join in the security of the Olympic Games.

By the end of June, G6S had finally completed the training of nearly 4 security personnel. In less than a month, more than 8000 personnel will arrive in London and join the Olympic security after receiving appropriate training.

Another area of ​​G4S that will be adjusted is their "correctional services business," which, to put it bluntly, is the contracting business of private prisons.

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

And these businesses are still very "promising"!

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 model of these private prisons is not complicated. Simply put, it is "eating both ends" - taking government subsidies on one hand and exploiting prisoners on the other.

On the government side, private prisons are generally allocated funds based on the number of people.

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

After deducting the prison's operating costs and excluding the prisoners' labor output, CCA still earns $18 per prisoner per day.

However, even so, the government is willing to provide subsidies.

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 far more than the US$58.

But why are private prisons like CCA so cheap?

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

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

However, low employee salaries are not the main reason.

The secret to making profits for these private prisons is to fleece as many prisoners as possible.

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

In other words, it is necessary to ensure that the prisoners have full working capacity.

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

In private prisons, ordinary prisoners are paid 17 cents per hour, and even prisoners who can hold "high-tech positions" only make 50 cents per hour at most.

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

As for those prisoners imprisoned in private prisons, their wages are barely enough to support themselves, let alone send money home.

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

In addition, CCA has established a cooperative relationship with the company "Global Call" - this company specializes in transferring the "prison hotline", which is actually the telephone line responsible for connecting prisoners with their 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 rate, his daily wages are only enough to call his family to report his safety.

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

In Barron’s previous life, Frédéric Pierucci, the vice president of international sales at Alstom, a French company, was thrown into a prison managed by the 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. It has no taste and no smell, and the cost is definitely no more than $1..."

Of course, it is not impossible for prisoners to improve their treatment by simply paying more money.

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

In private prisons, almost everything here has a price tag openly marked.

For example, if you don’t like living in a multi-person cell, you can buy a “package” for $82 a day - you get a double cell and are exempt from labor.

You can even pay to change your roommate, or move to a single room - the cell costs $100 a day, which has hotel-like bedding. Prisoners who are exempted from labor can also use computers and TVs, and hot water is available 24 hours a day. If you don't want to go out to eat, someone will deliver your customized meals.

It was almost like going on vacation to a hotel, except that you couldn't leave the yard at will.

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...