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djean111

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1. When prisons are privatized, there is usually a minimum inmate occupancy percentage specified
Sat May 3, 2014, 10:48 PM
May 2014

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.

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
When I told of privatized prisons burrowowl May 2014 #24
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
Probably a bigger percentage of the increase IDemo May 2014 #2
The program mentioned that too. It's so sick. nt Sarah Ibarruri May 2014 #15
Private prisons need to keep the prisons full so as to make profits. neverforget May 2014 #3
Yes - sick and evil nt Sarah Ibarruri May 2014 #16
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
I know, and that terrifies me on a level that very, very few things do. Shandris May 2014 #23
with the drug laws being changed, it should be interesting to see the prison population drop. hollysmom May 2014 #5
Probably not. JoeyT May 2014 #8
I'm not so sure. Look at this: Sarah Ibarruri May 2014 #11
They aren't changing the laws, just the enforcement davidn3600 May 2014 #17
SCAM blkmusclmachine May 2014 #6
Big time. The only PLEASING THING is that some of these ahs are ending up in prisons themselves Sarah Ibarruri May 2014 #22
Gee Maynar May 2014 #7
Incarceration sometimes means moondust May 2014 #9
Republicans believe that everything can be bought and sold and a profit made of it. By the way... Sarah Ibarruri May 2014 #13
Attaching a profit motive to human imprisonment is evil. woo me with science May 2014 #10
I agree. Incredibly evil. nt Sarah Ibarruri May 2014 #12
I really cant believe Go Vols May 2014 #18
I honestly didn't. I knew it was sick to privatize such a thing, but to artificially increase the Sarah Ibarruri May 2014 #20
Rich MF's Go Vols May 2014 #21
they go to "correction centers" for PROFIT n/t aggiesal May 2014 #26
rich get richer ... Go Vols May 2014 #27
Gonna bump for reality Go Vols May 2014 #28
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
We watched that, too. Blue_In_AK May 2014 #29
You did??? The whole time I was horrified watching it. How can something like that happen in this Sarah Ibarruri May 2014 #31
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