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Here is a thought; don't break any laws and you won't go to prison. Those that do break laws, I really don't care what happens to them. They made a bad personal choice they reap what they sow.
It must be so odd to go through life doing or not doing exactly what others tell you to, without any independent or critical thought.
I'm sure you would have made a good little citizen in Nazi-Germany.
I don't understand how these are "private" when they are funded by the government.
And I don't understand how they are for profit. Do the prisoners make something that gets sold for profit? (License plates?)
Where does the "profit" come from if not from government which means our tax money.
I don't understand how these are "private" when they are funded by the government.
And I don't understand how they are for profit. Do the prisoners make something that gets sold for profit? (License plates?)
Where does the "profit" come from if not from government which means our tax money.
They make mattresses or sew uniforms... and they do it for pennies on the dollar instead of minimum wage.
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Privatized prisons are the new Republican solution.
I have no issue with privatized prisons. Anytime the government spends money there is an opportunity for fraud. So prosecute those who commit fraud. Problem solved.
BTW, only 16% of federal and 6% of state prisoners are in private facilities.
Privatized prisons are the new Republican solution. In fact, presidential candidate Marco Rubio has benefited financially more than any other from GEO, the country's second largest prison for profit company.
I don't know what's so "new" about it, various state and local governments have been contracting with private prison companies for more than 30 years. Not only private prisons, a lot of governments contract out security, food services, health care and other services even when they own the buildings.
Its not fair to give people the impression that a young man like Rubio was the inventor of this burgeoning phenomenon
Here is a thought; don't break any laws and you won't go to prison. Those that do break laws, I really don't care what happens to them. They made a bad personal choice they reap what they sow.
....so if your Government decides to ban your gun tomorrow, guess what that makes you?
Stop making bad choices. I won't care what happens to you.
For violent criminals, for rapists, etc. I have no issue. But did you see that annual report that company posted? They are worried that prisoners will get shorter sentences for good behavior. They are worried there will be fewer drug laws. When you have a company that is paying politicians to make more laws so they can make more money, which is still paid for by tax payers, that's ridiculous.
I want violent people to stop being violent. Throwing them in jail for long periods of time is not a good motivator. They'll still be violent, but just in a prison, which does bother me. I don't care if the guy the stab is a drug dealer, a child molester, or a prison guard (which based on what prison unions do is basically a crime of its own); people don't deserve to die. Period!
I do support mandatory rehab to get released though. Give a murderer 15 years or something, but if he's still clearly violent at the end of that 15 years, don't let him leave.
Crime should be dealt with in a timely manner. It does that tax payer no good to leave people in prison indefinitely. A heavy focus on rehabilitation will get the 'saved' criminals out of there and being productive members of society and the dangerous ones will stay in prison.
And yes, I'm aware of all the laws that are passed because lobbyists bribe politicians. The justice system is broken, and if people looked at those statistics which can't be disputed, something might change but we're do busy looking at what skin color the people getting arrested have. And while I'm not saying that there is or isn't a racial issue, the race issue is definitely not the big underlying issue with the justice system in it's current state.
Nah, I think long prison sentences for any crime are inhumane. Life without parole should be illegal.
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Here is a thought; don't break any laws and you won't go to prison. Those that do break laws, I really don't care what happens to them. They made a bad personal choice they reap what they sow.
This is the type of thinking that allows tyrants to rise to power. 'If they weren't born Jewish, they wouldn't have been arrested... bad choices...'
But that's American statism. It's a law so it must be followed, no matter how stupid. That is, until I disagree with it. Gun control... outrageous. But since I don't do drug, I don't care that drug dealers can serve longer prison sentences than rapists.
Private prisons skim off the folks who are cheap to house -- not usually the hard time and dangerous inmates so they are set up for profit making. States experience prison overcrowding because they incarcerate too many people for too long -- drug and DWI offenders clog the system. The criminal justice system has less to do with actual justice and more to do with propelling offenders into incarceration...read your state's criminal code. Private prisons offer a choice between continuing to lock people up as usual or creating and using effective alternatives to incarceration. I was involved in rewriting a state's criminal code and it was a struggle to keep the process from being hijacked by politicians and prosecutors who had a vested interest in being tough on crime and locking people up.
There needs to be more oversight of private prisons- not just for how prisoners are housed and treated but the administration, hiring, and contracting -- this is tax payers' money.
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