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In reply to the discussion: Apparently privatization has created an increase in incarcerations. [View all]djean111
(14,255 posts)1. When prisons are privatized, there is usually a minimum inmate occupancy percentage specified
in the contract with the city or county or whatever. This ensures that the prisons will always make a profit. If occupancy falls below the percentage specified, the government has to pay anyway, instead of only paying an amount per prisoner. So - must keep those jail cells filled!
Isn't privatization awesome!
This is also why some are so against legalizing marijuana - all those lovely profitable prisoners, gone.
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Apparently privatization has created an increase in incarcerations. [View all]
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
OP
When prisons are privatized, there is usually a minimum inmate occupancy percentage specified
djean111
May 2014
#1
Yes, and that's something else I didn't know. How can this go on under our very noses? nt
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
#19
YES!!! Europeans just don't believe it, they don't get it. The U.S. is SO IMMORAL in every way
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
#33
This kind of thing is exactly why you have to write policy with the assumption that the...
Shandris
May 2014
#4
It is time to start. What upsets me is that every day I find out a new for-profit evil in this
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
#14
with the drug laws being changed, it should be interesting to see the prison population drop.
hollysmom
May 2014
#5
Big time. The only PLEASING THING is that some of these ahs are ending up in prisons themselves
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
#22
Republicans believe that everything can be bought and sold and a profit made of it. By the way...
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
#13
I honestly didn't. I knew it was sick to privatize such a thing, but to artificially increase the
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
#20
Yes it does. That needs to be publicized every chance we get, till it becomes a source of
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
#30
Private prisons are also using their profit to lobby for longer sentences.
ohnoyoudidnt
May 2014
#25
That's another thing, yes - the corrections officers and prisoners are all in danger. nt
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
#32
You did??? The whole time I was horrified watching it. How can something like that happen in this
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
#31