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Sue Binder

Sue Binder, M.A., is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Addictions Counselor (LAC). She worked for 13 years as a Mental Health Coordinator in a private prison owned by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), and previously she owned and operated an agency to assist victims of domestic violence agency. She continues to work in the mental health and addictions field. Sue holds two Master’s Degrees, one in psychology and one in humanities, and has done doctoral studies at Walden University. In addition to work as a Behavioral Health Therapist and a counselor/ supervisor in the fields of addictions and mental health, she has worked as a newspaper reporter and editor, education coordinator and associate college faculty member. She published “Hands Down: A Domestic Violence Treatment Workbook” (2006) and an Instructor’s Manual for the American Correctional Association.

Bodies in Beds

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Why Business Should Stay Out of Prisons

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Can privatization really help solve America's prison problems? A mental health professional tells a compelling story of suicidal inmates and mistreated inmates, with staff working overtime without compensation while frustration grows.

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Mental health workers in privatized prisons struggle to appropriately meet the needs of inmates, to help them recognize and overcome behaviors that landed them in trouble, and to help them cope with the stress of incarceration without acting out again. Due to the corporate focus on profit, rather than a successful outcome, staff are stretched beyond any limit.A preoccupation with the bottom line, compounded by a bureaucratic need for paperwork, also creates unsafe conditions as there is simply not enough manpower to go around.Most important, by cutting corners, cheating the personnel, and ignoring prisoners' health care needs, these corporations create a revolving door - offenders returning to prison - at a tremendous cost to taxpayers, to society, and to the incarcerated people themselves.