Prison Education Reduces Recidivism by Over 40 Percent. Why Aren’t We Funding More of It?

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10. Bingo

We can debate all we want about what ideally would help prisoners and help society, but prisons aren't in the business of helping prisoners, society, or even victims, they now exist to turn a profit. The more Right Wing the state, the more obvious this profit motive is. Laws, sentences, and probation are applied with one goal in mind, to maximize profit for the corporations running the prisons, courts, and probation agencies. And in many cases your sentence and other punishment is fed into an algorithm whose purpose is to maximize the profit of each prisoner. For example, prisoner A comes from a family with money, it might be a good idea to fine this prisoner heavily and then give them a long and costly probation. Prisoner B comes from poverty, slap them with a long sentence and collect the money from the government to house them for years, in the mean time that prisoner can work forced labor for next to no money to further pad the bottom line.

The US Prison Industrial Complex is the biggest threat to freedom in the entire world. It needs to end and the profit motive needs to be removed from the process all together.