Cañon City (Colorado) - The old man pulled up at the Riviera Motel from Kansas after 500 miles on the highway. On the phone he told us not to worry about him. He'd drive through the night, he'd be on time and it wouldn't take long. I'll only stop to fill up with gas and to piss,
he'd said. That's Frank Smith, an age-old activist against private prisons. Mike Snobrich was right to insist we meet him. We sat down at the Riviera's waxed tablecloth, the one you see right at the start of the film, and Smith laid out his arguments. Private prisons are an extension of the capitalist dream, just like the war machine.
Since 1996, every time a private prison moves in somewhere, Frank heads over there. His tally: 31 private prisons have never been built. His car - an old Contour Sport with 174,536 miles on the clock - is sporty only in name. When he drew up on the parking lot, he immediately got out a screwdriver. His front left window was bust again.
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