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I guess? I don't think that's why private prisons are wrong, though. Private prisons have an incentive to keep you incarcerated as long as possible, because tha
by justinlardinois 10y ago
I guess? I don't think that's why private prisons are wrong, though. Private prisons have an incentive to keep you incarcerated as long as possible, because that's how they make money. The government, on the other hand, has little incentive to keep you in prison; they'd rather you get back into society so you can start paying taxes again.
- slavik81 10y agoThe government has many interests. Their goals are driven by politicians who need votes. The skyrocketing rate of imprisonment comes in large part from the public's seemingly insatiable demand for harsher sentences. The only things that voters seem to hate more are tax increases.
- justinlardinois 10y agoPerhaps "government" was too broad of a term. Inmates sometimes end up staying prison longer than their original sentence because of crimes they commit in prison. The point I was making is that a private prison warden has much more of an incentive to punish those crimes severely than a public one does.