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Private prisons lead to lobbying for harsher convictions to improve the bottom line of those prisons, that is why they often come up.
by Guvante 9y ago
Private prisons lead to lobbying for harsher convictions to improve the bottom line of those prisons, that is why they often come up.
- evanpw 9y agoSo do police and prison guards' unions, and they're much larger: https://reason.com/blog/2015/06/02/are-for-profit-prisons-or-public-unions https://reason.com/blog/2015/06/02/are-for-profit-prisons-or....
- Retric 9y agoPrison guard unions and private prisons are effectively the same thing. They are both groups that directly benefit by increasing the prison population.