Thread: The Private Prison Industry

Rather than post an article with link, I'd like to solicit members input on this topic. Please weigh in.

Thanks,

leftofabbie

I have no problem with private prisons.I do have a problem if judges are receiving kickbacks like in the cash for kids scandal.Hopefully they punished the judges involved and the persons who bribed the judges. If someone gets sent to jail,Juvenal Hall or prison it should be due to the fact that individual deserved it, not because the judge was bribed to send that person there.

Originally Posted by leftofabbie

Rather than post an article with link, I'd like to solicit members input on this topic. Please weigh in.

Thanks,

leftofabbie

The justice system is one of the things that I think shouldn't be privatized at any level, or in any form. The chances of corruption are too high. The judicial system needs to be "pure" from monetary compensation.

No one should profit from justice.

Unless people start offering to pay to go to prison, I think it's a misnomer. I don't consider industries that are permanently latched onto a public funding nozzle to be "private." It's just a method of re-privatizing public funds. And of course I think that's a bad idea.

All government does is try to privatize things that should be public (because it sucks at doing them in the first place) and, at the same time, try to make public industries that should always remain private. Gotta look useful somehow. It's insanity.

Corrupts the justice system and all in all is just a terrible operation

Does the OP mean the actual private prisons and that industry, or industries that are private that are centered around prisons? Like the Fed UNICOR, etc? Or other companies that sell products via the prison PX system? They're two different things.

Originally Posted by dontworrybehappy

Does the OP mean the actual private prisons and that industry, or industries that are private that are centered around prisons? Like the Fed UNICOR, etc? Or other companies that sell products via the prison PX system? They're two different things.

The Corrections Corporation of America is one example. GEO is another.

Who ever said that crime doesn't pay.

Originally Posted by leftofabbie

The Corrections Corporation of America is one example. GEO is another.

Oh ok thanks. I wasn't sure what you were talking about.

Is there any doubt as to why the US now imprisons more people than the Soviet Union's gulag? It's a combination of for-profit prison lobby, which pushes for crap like racial profiling in AZ, and politicians afraid to look weak on crime. Also it's a pretty puritanical country, poverty, and so on, but private prison industry does its fair share.