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Tommymac

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13. Private FOR PROFIT Prisons are on the Stock Market. They need more prisoners to make $$$$$$$

Reply to WhiskeyGrinder (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 27, 2021, 11:32 AM

Jan 2021

They give a fuck about prisoner rights. They need more non-violent offenders in prison.

For example, private prisons provide help desk analysts for a lot of companies.

The analysts make peanuts compared to their non incarcerated brethren.

It is all about $$$$, not punishment or rehabilitation.

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Biden orders end of federally run private prisons [View all] WonderGrunion Jan 2021 OP

Yes! poli-junkie Jan 2021 #1

That headline makes no sense. WhiskeyGrinder Jan 2021 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author MagickMuffin Jan 2021 #9

Ever expanding "private prisons" incentivize expanded incarceration and they have much less OregonBlue Jan 2021 #12

Private prisons are the way they are because they are an offshoot of public prisons. WhiskeyGrinder Jan 2021 #14

Private FOR PROFIT Prisons are on the Stock Market. They need more prisoners to make $$$$$$$ Tommymac Jan 2021 #13

Public prisons need prisoners so they make money for the state, through cheap labor, WhiskeyGrinder Jan 2021 #15

Difference is We The People run and control Public Prisons. Tommymac Jan 2021 #16

I'm not saying private prisons are a good thing. I'm saying public prisons are just as shitty, WhiskeyGrinder Jan 2021 #18

K&R Blue Owl Jan 2021 #3

K&R Blue Owl Jan 2021 #4

Joe you out did yourself I_UndergroundPanther Jan 2021 #5

This EO does nothing to free anyone or shut down any private prison. WhiskeyGrinder Jan 2021 #6

Put a bunch of sociopaths and narcissists I_UndergroundPanther Jan 2021 #7

Have you been to any prison's? EX500rider Jan 2021 #8

No never been in prison I_UndergroundPanther Jan 2021 #10

State prisons are horrible. Turin_C3PO Jan 2021 #17

Agreed. OregonBlue Jan 2021 #19

K&R UTUSN Jan 2021 #11