Bernie Sanders Pledges To End No Child Left Behind, Shut Down For-Profit Prisons

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31. K&R Our prisons should never be given a profit incentive unless it is for rehabilitation.

It is sick enough, in my mind, to profit from the incarceration and punishment of guilty people. Sick enough to have it banished.
But to profit from the innocent? To profit from entrapment, dishonesty & profiling? From the torture and outright bondage of our fellow countrymen?
From shareholders to kickbacks & lobbying to more profit to more corporate prisons, more draconian laws, more needless suffering, only for more money. That is evil. No other word for it.

It is the same in our education system. It is the same in our labor. It is the same in our defense. It is the same in our environment. It is taking what could have been a good thing, or at the very least at it's time of implementation considered a necessary thing for the life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness of all Americans (you know, the foundation of Democratic ideals) and it has been twisted by the malignant forces of dark money to serve them only to the detriment of all who come in contact. Now and until the ever beckoning, ever louder song foretelling the end of our run on this planet has finished.

If we don't start changing things now, we quite realistically may never get another chance.