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For-profit prisons have a tendency to turn more incarceration and more in prison crime to keep prisoners in the system along with subpar living conditions. old gringo is right. This industry is evil even if it helps leviate costs...
It's complicated. For the most part, State run "anything" will waste money and generally be run less efficiently than a privately run "anything". However, it's harder to regulate private businesses and these are human beings that deserve humane treatment.
Sure - private is run more efficiently so as to squeeze out the PROFIT for the private business! That doesn't mean it necessarily COSTS the government any less or that it is run any better for the inmates.
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Note (1): Want to know how drugs get into prison? A guard making $12/hour wants a new bass boat. He can clear much much more than his base pay if he helps ferry drugs.
Yes that can happen but after it happens once that guard is owned by the inmate UNLESS there is someone higher in the food chain that will overlook that guards crime and shut up the inmate. Corruption is almost always vertical. There is no way a lowly C.O. can bring in contraband for an extended period of time UNLESS higher ups are looking the other way. Just how high up is the question.
Yes that can happen but after it happens once that guard is owned by the inmate UNLESS there is someone higher in the food chain that will overlook that guards crime and shut up the inmate. Corruption is almost always vertical. There is no way a lowly C.O. can bring in contraband for an extended period of time UNLESS higher ups are looking the other way. Just how high up is the question.
Eh, you'd be surprised. Just look at the New York prison escape from last year for example. It didn't go that high up the food chain yet two dangerous prisoners got tools to use to break out and even the ability to hide on the lam. That was a public prison but if you think a for-profit prison would be any different, there's oceanfront property in Arizona I'm willing to sell you.
I visited someone in the Henrico County (Virginia) jail weekly over a 3 month period, and I can't see how drugs would get in there by visitors. There was no physical contact between prisoners and visitors. Bullet proof glass and talking through a phone.
County jail vs prison.
Your county jails are often setup as you describe, as are higher security prisons.
But your lower security prisons generally allow in person "contact" visits. Which.. Are a good thing in general.. And this makes the possibility of slipping contraband much more likely.
Your county jails are often setup as you describe, as are higher security prisons.
But your lower security prisons generally allow in person "contact" visits. Which.. Are a good thing in general.. And this makes the possibility of slipping contraband much more likely.
I was actually surprised that the county jail was so "high security".
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