Is this exploitation? On the other hand, supporters will say it's healthy for inmates to work. Anyhow, though, if money is to be made, then the more arrested the better! That's creepy I think. That would be seen as part of the prison/industrial complex for sure.
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Prison Profits
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A public prison is not a profit-generating entity. The end goal is to house incarcerated individuals in an attempt to rehabilitate them or remove them from the streets.
A private prison, on the other hand, is run by a corporation. That corporation's end goal is to profit from anything they deal in.
So what type of prison are we talking about here?
A private prison, on the other hand, is run by a corporation. That corporation's end goal is to profit from anything they deal in.
So what type of prison are we talking about here?
This looks like a pretty good outline of the differences:
Not an easy read; but it sort of looks like a convoluted mess either way.
And, naturally, either way we the taxpayers get to pay for both.
Private Prisons vs. Public Prisons
Not an easy read; but it sort of looks like a convoluted mess either way.
And, naturally, either way we the taxpayers get to pay for both.
Private Prisons vs. Public Prisons
That sounds messed up to me!
"They are run by private, third-party companies rather than the state government, who runs traditional public prison. Private prisons receive their funding from government contracts ........"
That's right but its' also not supposed to be hell either, for two reasons: (1) the vast majority of inmates will go back into society at some point; you can either make sure they have the skills needed to become productive citizens or you can simply play a revolving door with them and (2) the state's job w/regards to prison is to simply ensure that the sentences given to them are carried out.
Funnily enough in the US prisons have increasingly been used as a way to get round the abolition of slavery.
If I remember rightly the Fifteenth Amendment abolished slavery EXCEPT for prisoners.
(It's been a while since I've read the full text of the Constitution!)
On a broader note I'd say that my approach to crime and punishment doesn't fit easily into any left/right tick box.
I support the death penalty for murder but not for any crime that doesn't result in death.
I support corporal punishment for crimes of violence.
I support legalisation of drugs.
I support prison reform and non-custodial sentences where appropriate.
In terms of prison conditions I believe that as the majority of inmates will be released it makes more sense to have humane conditions to prepare them for their return to society rather than turning them into gulags.
If I remember rightly the Fifteenth Amendment abolished slavery EXCEPT for prisoners.
(It's been a while since I've read the full text of the Constitution!)
On a broader note I'd say that my approach to crime and punishment doesn't fit easily into any left/right tick box.
I support the death penalty for murder but not for any crime that doesn't result in death.
I support corporal punishment for crimes of violence.
I support legalisation of drugs.
I support prison reform and non-custodial sentences where appropriate.
In terms of prison conditions I believe that as the majority of inmates will be released it makes more sense to have humane conditions to prepare them for their return to society rather than turning them into gulags.
Agreed on that front. I've always thought that prisons were a form of slavery.
Are we not okay with this in regards to murderers, child molesters, sex traffickers, and rapists being put to hard work for free slave labor though?
After all, they did abuse their freedoms by violating the freedoms of others and ruining people's lives. I don't feel sorry for them.
I'm definitely okay with that.
It irks me that the middle-class person who spends their life trying to follow the rules is having to pay for these people to live out their lives having everything handed to them.
I'm okay with these perps spending their days making new license plates for us, filling sand bags, or risking everything fighting wildfires FOR FREE. Or let them go to Mexico or Saudi Arabia & break their laws & see how they like those prisons/sentences.
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