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Not to undermine your point, but you have used the worst possible example. In the top 1000 of worst prisons around the world, most if not all of them are not pr
by randiantech 8y ago
Not to undermine your point, but you have used the worst possible example. In the top 1000 of worst prisons around the world, most if not all of them are not private. Just take a look a Brazil prison system as en example.
- amdavidson 8y agoDoes Brazil have private prisons that are much better than their public ones? If not, I don't think you have contradicted his point at all. There are not too many places that we can look at public vs private institutions for direct comparisons (in the contexts that they operate). Prisons are one, I can think of FedEx/UPS/DHL vs the Post Office as another, and it's difficult for me to come up with much after that.
- Tepix 8y agoOne glaring problem with private prisons is that it creates an incentive to put more people in jail and keep them there longer.