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DirkGently

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13. This case indicts both private prisons & "boot-camp" juvenile facilities.

Wed Feb 5, 2014, 12:14 PM

Feb 2014

We have the problem of the profit motive where money is to be made incarcerating as many people as possible. What happens when we do that is that people who shouldn't be incarcerated ... are.

Shouldn't be a surprise, but prison privatization continues unabated.

Then we have the problem of sending kids to these brutal "boot camps" run by untrained personnel on the theory that harsh treatment -- often sold as "Christian" -- is the kind help a troubled kid needs.

Idiocy and greed.

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Inside the Shocking 'Kids For Cash' Juvenile Justice Scandal [View all] xchrom Feb 2014 OP

There should be a national investigation malaise Feb 2014 #1

Just realized...BLACKMAIL. Octafish Feb 2014 #7

Isn't that the truth malaise Feb 2014 #8

Could be foreign or domestic... Octafish Feb 2014 #10

wow!! now that is really disturbing stuff Douglas Carpenter Feb 2014 #2

28 years for ruining countless lives? AzDar Feb 2014 #3

We have more people imprisoned than any other nation in the history of humanity. nt Romulox Feb 2014 #4

This is so horrible, I'd tie this around every pol that supported this crap dem and rep uponit7771 Feb 2014 #5

There needs to be a top-to-bottom investigation. Octafish Feb 2014 #6

But Rand Paul is worried that Clinton got off to easy malaise Feb 2014 #9

Is Rand the guy who kidnapped the co-ed? Octafish Feb 2014 #11

Remember malaise Feb 2014 #15

Tip of the iceberg of our corrupt system. jsr Feb 2014 #12

This case indicts both private prisons & "boot-camp" juvenile facilities. DirkGently Feb 2014 #13

k/r marmar Feb 2014 #14

New Mexico youth ranch also needs to be investigated Cotopaxi Mar 2014 #16