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08/09/13 at 13:48:16

Prisons

One would think it a worthy goal to rehabilitate prisoners and gradually empty the jails. But business is too good. With each prisoner generating up to $40,000 a year in revenue, it has apparently made economic sense to put over two million people behind bars.

The need to fill privatized prisons has contributed to mass jailings for drug offenses, with African Americans, who make up 13% of the population, accounting for 53.5 percent of all persons who entered prison because of a drug conviction. Yet marijuana usage rates are about the same for Blacks and whites.

Studies show that private prisons perform poorly in numerous ways: prevention of intra-prison violence, jail conditions, rehabilitation efforts. Investigations in Ohio and New Jersey revealed a familiar pattern of money-saving cutbacks and worsening conditions. I was not aware we had private prisons. I knew there was talk of them bit I didn't know they existed.

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: This is for you Jog. Reply #1 - 08/09/13 at 14:17:59 & When it is profitable to have prisoners, prisoners will be abundant.
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Reply #2 - 08/09/13 at 15:19:54

Most prisons are to at least some extent privatized these days. The local one is wholly owned and run by a private company, has convicts from all over the country in it. The state prison we will be riding by on the way to Fort Pillow Battlefield is half state, 1/2 contractor run.

The private "bulls" are better trained, stronger, tougher, meaner, don't coddle the prisoners and in the end cost less than running the prisons with state employees. State gets a huge kick back, so ... win win... Huh

Scares the hell out of me, my politics aren't exactly in lock step with the modern era...

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Reply #3 - 08/09/13 at 15:22:38

Now, you tell me how a state can PROMISE to maintain occupancy in a prison unless theyre ready to CREATE criminals to lock up..

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Reply #4 - 08/09/13 at 16:01:17

Man, I'm a white guy living in the Memphis area, that has to violate some kind of screwy statute... I know the fact we have a naturist facility does... probably the fact we don't grow GMO crops breaks a few "rules"... and, horror of horrors, we raise our own met chickens next to an uncapped abandoned well (that is plumb full of golf balls, er, I mean black walnuts)...

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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28674 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: This is for you Jog. Reply #5 - 08/09/13 at 16:31:20 Privatized Prisons spend huge, lobbying against legalizing pot, and getting rid of the "War on Drugs" as well ... Wonder why?... ...
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Midnightrider Serious Thumper Offline Alliance Member Posts: 3244 Winston Salem, NC	Re: This is for you Jog. Reply #6 - 08/09/13 at 22:55:29 I've heard talk of privatized prisons but I didn't know they even existed. I learn a lot on this forum. Bot what you said makes perfectly good sense.
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