| ▲ | brenschluss 12 hours ago |
| We should zoom out in perspective. The question is not “is the experience in for-profit prisons better for incarcerated people”. It is “for-profit prisons create a system with a financial incentive to increase the number of incarcerated people”. |
|
| ▲ | jazzyjackson 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Tax funded prisons also have unions that vote for expanding prisons. The distinction doesn’t make much of a difference. |
|
| ▲ | pirate787 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| For-profit is the delivery system, which should save taxpayer money. Systems where the institutions are directly administered by taxpayer funds and their attendant public employee unions also have political/financial incentives. |
| |
| ▲ | xp84 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm inclined to believe that. Either way - publicly-run or private contractor, if the government is a good steward of public funds, they'll monitor well to avoid waste and remove people who are trying to unjustly enrich themselves. And if the officials are incompetent or corrupt themselves, they'll fail to recognize when those things are happen, or participate themselves. I don't see a big difference in public vs. private unless I imagine a fantasy government run only by officials who are smart and highly ethical. | | |
| ▲ | chaps 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | Should private prisons have their own private prison guards that use paintball guns filled with pepper spray? Should private prisons be FOIA'able just like public prisons? | | |
| |
| ▲ | bjourne 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Exactly why would one or more middle men trying to extract profit save taxpayer money? What's your evidence? |
|
