LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
Justice “routinely awards contracts to private prison operators without scrutinizing their
records,” Chris writes.
As one former Department
executive tells him, “They don’t
want the providers to look bad,
because they don’t have anyone
else to provide this service. Bottom line, the state of Florida
doesn’t want responsibility for
these kids.”
As a result, young people have
faced a range of abuses, from being served bloody, raw chicken
to being “choked and slammed
head first into concrete walls,”
as a 2010 lawsuit chronicles.
Elsewhere in the issue, Jason
Linkins points out the ridiculousness of comparing the technical difficulties hampering the
Obamacare website to the Iraq
War, as National Journal columnist Ron Fournier recently did.
“Now, obviously, at first blush,
this comparison seems very stupid. Like, say, something that only
a complete idiot — a real, blubbering, blithering, stupid-faced
moron — would consider, let alone
put into words and enunciate in a
public forum,” Jason writes.
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However, he continues, some
similarities can be found. “The
word ‘surge’ has been used in
conjunction with each thing’s
terrible flaws, and the efforts to
repair the problem. So, that’s
something. That is, at the very
least, a ‘thing.’”
Young people
have faced a range
of abuses, from
being served bloody,
raw chicken to being
‘choked and slammed
head first into
concrete walls.’”
Finally, as part of our continuing focus on The Third Metric,
Carey Polis introduces us to
the enlightening experience of
dining in silence with a
roomful of strangers.
ARIANNA