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>Oh, so solitary is bad now. We'll fix it. Put two people in a 10x4 cell. See, not solitary anymore, and we doubled the capacity too. Bonuses for everyone I do
by gozur88 11y ago
>Oh, so solitary is bad now. We'll fix it. Put two people in a 10x4 cell. See, not solitary anymore, and we doubled the capacity too. Bonuses for everyone
I doubt that. The people running the system don't decide how many inmates they get or how many beds they have. They put people where they have to put them. And they have to deal with this kind of fallout. They're doubling up because they don't have room to do anything else.
There's probably a memo that went up the chain saying "This is a bad idea. We really shouldn't do it." If it made their jobs easier, guards would be perfectly happy with 1300 sq ft hot-tub-equipped town house cells. They're government employees, after all.
But nobody wants a prison in his town. For most people, inmates are out of sight, out of mind and that's the way they like it. That is the problem.
- ljf 11y agoAre they all government employees? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison
- gozur88 11y agoDid you read the article?
- ljf 11y agoI did indeed... I was questioning why you thought this was exclusive to state controlled prison and suggesting the issue was with those drawing a govt paycheque rather than the whole machine.
- jessaustin 11y agoFrom where do the paychecks come at private prisons? OP was talking about people who work for the government, whether those are subcontractors or GS-5's.
- clort 11y ago> They're doubling up because they don't have room to do anything else then they shouldn't admit them. You know, I've been all over the world and in many third world countries as many people who can get on the bus, just get on the bus. The driver allows it because he gets a dollar for everybody who gets on. In my rich western nation, there is a number posted high up near the ceiling. This number is the number the bus is licenced to carry, and the bus driver gets paid an hourly wage for driving the bus about. When there are too many people at the bus stop, he says he can't allow them on as he would lose his job and he drives away. The potential passengers have to wait for the next bus, or walk. This causes angst amongst the populace who complain to the bus company, or the local government which may effect change. In the USA, it seems, when more and more prisoners are served on a prison, they just take them and cram them into smaller and smaller spaces.. because they get paid for each one and there is no rule against it. The prison should be licensed for a certain number of inmates, and if more prisoners turn up then they should NOT be accepted (under pain of losing their license), and they would remain in the custody of the persons bringing them. That would quickly cause a problem where the local police were too busy babysitting prisoners to go out in the streets and find more for the courts to convict, and THAT is when the populace will suffer angst and demand some change.
- gozur88 11y ago>then they shouldn't admit them. They don't have any choice. Judges send them people in prison vans, and then it's their problem.