Attention cash-strapped states - the largest for-profit prison corporation in America has one hell of a deal for you! The only hitch is...you have to begin imprisoning your own citizens at an alarmingly high rate - and keep them in jail for 20 years! That's the offer coming from the Corrections Corporation of America in a $250 million proposal sent to prison officials in 48 states across the nation. The deal works like this: States sell their prisons off to the Corrections Corporation of America - also known as CCA - a multi-billion dollar for-profit corporation that's already operating 66 prison facilities across the nation. CCA pays the state a lump-sum off the bat for the prison. For example - in Ohio - CCA paid the state $72 million to run the Lake Erie Correctional Institution. From that point on - the state will then pay CCA a couple million dollars a year to manage the facility...which the state paid to build and CCA just bought for a song. That sorta sounds like a crummy deal - but CCA and proponents of prison privatization argue that this deal will actually save states a bunch money. But that's not true.

The Good! *John Archer* Archer is a Republican candidate for the US House from Iowa. When asked by a reporter if he differs from the Republican party on any issues - Archer replied, "I believe the Party platform calls for the death penalty and I'm personally opposed to the death penalty." He went on to say that while working as a clerk at the Illinois Supreme Court, he had seen "first hand" how we - as Americans - "have put innocent people to death" and "how life is too precious to do that." Finally - a Conservative saying that we need to abolish the death penalty. The Bad! *Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)* During an interview with Sean Hannity - Paul compared the US government's decision to reclaim some stolen property to Nazi Germany's confiscation of Jewish property. In the 1930's - a set of ten gold Double Eagle coins were illegaly removed from the US Mint. When the government recently found the coins - it sued the woman who had them - saying they were US property. A judge recently found in the government's favor. and the Very Very Ugly! *Mitt Romney* The man who could be President of the United States apparently doesn't care about foreign policy. In an interview with BuzzFeed published yesterday morning - Romney advisor Robert O'Brien said, speaking about the Obama campaign, that "it doesn't surprise me that they're raising foreign policy because it's another distraction from the Administration's terrible economic record." But - what Mr. O'Brien and his boss don't realize is ...

Greg Palast, BBC News & The Guardian / Author, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits joins Thom Hartmann. The Chicago Teachers Union strike is in it's third-day - as some of our nation's public school teachers continue to fight for a better system. But what's really going on with this strike - and why does Fox News have a financial stake in the Chicago Public School sytem? Plus - Greg knows the worst teacher in Chicago!

Horace Cooper, National Center for Public Policy Research & Austin Petersen, Libertarian commentator, FreedomWorks joins Thom Hartmann.