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AG Sessions and private prisons

Should private prisons be abolished?

  • Yes

    Votes: 4 44.4%

  • No

    Votes: 4 44.4%

  • I want to manage my own FEMA camp

    Votes: 1 11.1%
  • Total voters
    9
  • Poll closed .
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No kidding. Sessions has investment in private prisons.

(1) All incarceration should be only in government run and staffed and managed facilities.

(2) No manager associations or guard unions should be permitted to lobby legislatures or Congress.

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JamesBY said:
No kidding. Sessions has investment in private prisons.

(1) All incarceration should be only in government run and staffed and managed facilities.

(2) No manager associations or guard unions should be permitted to lobby legislatures or Congress.

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Shrug. WHO CARES! Jeff Sessions and any other politician does not take a vow of poverty when they take up office. What you need to do is hold the members of Congress accountable. Sessions is upholding and enforcing the law. It's Congress who write laws. What I have a problem with is the insider trading that's allowed to take place in Congress. Your TDS is going off the rails.

Finally the Bulk of private prisons are being used for housing illegal immigrants. You clearly didn't think this through.
 
reinoe said:
Shrug. WHO CARES! Jeff Sessions and any other politician does not take a vow of poverty when they take up office. What you need to do is hold the members of Congress accountable. Sessions is upholding and enforcing the law. It's Congress who write laws. What I have a problem with is the insider trading that's allowed to take place in Congress. Your TDS is going off the rails.
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It's called a 'conflict of interest'. No one ever claimed he took a vow of poverty.

All rational, intellectually honest adults care.

I don't think it's anything you'd understand.
 
You know America is ****ed when we've even outsourced our criminal justice system to private corporations who then use that money to lobby the government to keep more people in cages.
 
Post of the morning is "All rational, intellectually honest adults care."
 
RabidAlpaca said:
You know America is ****ed when we've even outsourced our criminal justice system to private corporations who then use that money to lobby the government to keep more people in cages.
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It is a sign of rational thinking to privatise those goods that are efficiently handled thus. This doesn't mean we have organised this service optimally. But you have to start somewhere.
Maybe it would be smarter to think of ways of improvement than just griping all the time.
 
joG said:
It is a sign of rational thinking to privatise those goods that are efficiently handled thus. This doesn't mean we have organised this service optimally. But you have to start somewhere.
Maybe it would be smarter to think of ways of improvement than just griping all the time.
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There is nothing rational about paying private corporations massive sums of cash to lock human beings in their cages then allow them to lobby the government to lock more human beings in cages for even more money. The improvement was already suggested: get rid of private prisons and with it the profit motive to incarcerate our people. I mean for ****'s sake, if the government is even abdicating justice there really is no point to it at all. That is literally the last thing we should be outsourcing. Maybe next we can outsource the military, police, fire department and even congress to private contractors. Americans should just get out of the way and let the corporations run our society.
 
Tanngrisnir said:
It's called a 'conflict of interest'. No one ever claimed he took a vow of poverty.

All rational, intellectually honest adults care.

I don't think it's anything you'd understand.
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The attorney general doesn't write laws. If you have a problem with something being illegal then you should elect people who share your views and are willing to change it.
 
reinoe said:
The attorney general doesn't write laws.
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Breaking: no one said he did.
If you have a problem with something being illegal then you should elect people who share your views and are willing to change it.
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I have a problem with an attorney general who lies under oath and engages in conflicts of interest.

You apparently don't.
 
Tanngrisnir said:
Breaking: no one said he did.

I have a problem with an attorney general who lies under oath and engages in conflicts of interest.

You apparently don't.
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It's not against the law to have an opinion different from yours! My God you Trump haters aren't just skirting authoritarianism, you're trying to make it policy!
 
reinoe said:
It's not against the law to have an opinion different from yours! My God you Trump haters aren't just skirting authoritarianism, you're trying to make it policy!
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Why do you support lying under oath and conflicts of interest in high officials?
 
RabidAlpaca said:
There is nothing rational about paying private corporations massive sums of cash to lock human beings in their cages then allow them to lobby the government to lock more human beings in cages for even more money. The improvement was already suggested: get rid of private prisons and with it the profit motive to incarcerate our people. I mean for ****'s sake, if the government is even abdicating justice there really is no point to it at all. That is literally the last thing we should be outsourcing. Maybe next we can outsource the military, police, fire department and even congress to private contractors. Americans should just get out of the way and let the corporations run our society.
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That is a very intricate question that you summarily wipe off the table. And, while I have seen studies that would tend to partially support your view, I have read others that say that bad results are due to the government having closed bad contracts, installed counterproductive property rights structures and poorly defined the aims. Where these mistakes and sloppiness had been avoided, the prisons worked fine.
 
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